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The National Food Security Strategy in the UAE aims to develop a comprehensive system, which aims to achieve sustainable food production.
The system will involve 38 short and long-term initiatives, as per the “2051 Vision” and “2021 Work Agenda.”
Many specialist newspapers highlighted the UAE’s plans and projects that aim to attract major investment in vertical or horizontal agriculture, in line with related growth forecasts for the Gulf region, which amounts to $1.21 billion by 2021, a compound annual growth rate of 26.4 percent.
The Business Standard stated that the UAE leads in this type of investment, and has launched many recent leading projects.
Mariam Hareb Almheiri, Minister of State for Food Security, announced, during the UAE government’s annual meetings in November, the “National Food Security Strategy,” which includes many related objectives, such as achieving sustainable local production through the use of technology and smart applications.
The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment approved the launch of 12 vertical farms while Emirates Airline is planning to launch the largest vertical agriculture farm in the world, in partnership with Crop One Holdings.
Food import rates amounting to 90 percent and the issues associated with the scarcity of water and arable land in the region strongly support this trend.