Yousef Waly (Arabic: يوسف والي; 2 April 1930 – 5 September 2020) was an Egyptian politician who served as Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation from 1982 to 2004.
During Wali's tenure as Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation and as a Deputy Prime Minister, he worked to obtain funding for research and development in agriculture which helped Egypt increase the productivity of the land for crops such as maize, wheat, rice, and cotton to unprecedented rates.
It was claimed that, by dissolving the Ministry of Agriculture's Pesticide Supervision Committee in 1999, Wali paved the way for the importation of banned chemicals.
While what appeared on the surface may not be the whole truth, some see the events as another tragic victory in the war between "chemical pesticides" and "bio-pesticides" in Egyptian agriculture.
El-Leithy imposed strict measures on the types of imported pesticides and acknowledged the economic advantages of organically grown crops.