This article traces the ways the UAE utilises the private sector, agribusiness and logistics firms, alongside military power, to achieve so-called food security.
Abu Dhabi-based Jenaan Investment has a new joint venture with the government of Sudan to farm 10,000 ha there to produce fodder for livestock in the UAE.
The company is investing instead in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya to grow olive and palm trees on 100,000 acres. The Minya project will be 100,000 acres.
As a joint venture between the UAE based Jenaan Investment and the Republic of the Sudan, Amtaar is today Sudan's largest scale agricultural investment.
Al Dahra et Jenaan travaillent avec le gouvernement égyptien à la création d’une joint-venture destinée à produire du blé dans des régions désertiques en Egypte.
Face aux difficultés enregistrées en Afrique, les pays du Golfe réorientent leur stratégie d’investissement agricole vers des territoires moins risqués, notamment les États-Unis et l'Europe de l'Est.
The desert states of the Gulf are changing tack in their multi-billion dollar search for food security.
Jenaan, which has agricultural investments from Spain to Ethiopia, said it changed its policy in part because it had been losing money in Egypt and in part due to advice from the government of Abu Dhabi.
As Gulf states continue to invest in foreign farmland, what are the long term implications
Abu Dhabi's Jenaan Investment owns and leases properties in Egypt and Sudan, as well as leasing land in Tanzania, Ethiopia and the US.
The UAE has embarked on an overseas investment spree to ensure domestic food security in a country with miniscule arable area -- a spree that will only grow
Why produce a low-value crop such as wheat using expensive water when the FAO says the global wheat harvest will this year be second only to last year’s record?
