Eco agriculture & Green cities

Vertical gardens in the city: how to green up your apartment building creatively

Experts say that turning a city house into a palace is real. Let’s check the explanation by the founder of the Center for Alternative Gardening in Kyiv, who revealed the secrets of safe and beautiful green walls in the Rubryka article. We find examples of vertical gardening most often in parks and recreation areas. There […]

Oman authority signed an agreement to support 10 million trees planting initiative

The Environment Authority and Nama Group today signed a memorandum of cooperation to allocate OMR 100,000 as a contribution for the national initiative to plant 10 million trees. The MoC was signed by Dr. Abdullah Ali al-Amri, Chairman of the Environment Authority, and Eng. Omar Khalfan al-Wahaibi, CEO of Nama Group, The Arabian Stories reports. […]

To boldly grow: Abu Dhabi research center to use space technology to boost food security

US company Nanoracks is opening the StarLab Oasis in the capital to study food production in space and in harsh climates such as the UAE, The National News reports. A new research centre in Abu Dhabi will use the UAE desert as a testing ground to explore how space technology can help food production thrive […]

World’s biggest vertical farming R&D center breaks ground in Abu Dhabi

Vertical farming company AeroFarms has started construction in Abu Dhabi on a 8,200-square-metre research and development centre, the largest in the world, which aims to advance sustainable agriculture in arid climates. AeroFarms AgX, the New Jersey company’s wholly owned subsidiary in the UAE, is part of a group of four agriculture technology ventures to share […]

Dubai forms teams of UAE nationals to lead the transformation of public parks

The first impressions of what Dubai’s redesigned public parks could look like will be showcased by the end of September, officials said here on Sunday. The update came during a gathering at Dubai Media Office of 30 Emirati creative talents entrusted with submitting proposals and designs to redevelop ten public parks, Gulf news states. The […]

UAE’s vast AgTech potential takes center stage at UAE National Food System Summit

The massive potential of the UAE’s advanced agricultural technology sector to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was a key topic taking centre stage at the UAE National Food System Summit Dialogue, which was held virtually recently, WAM reports. Hosted by Mariam Hareb Almheiri, Minister of State for Food Security, the dialogue under the […]

Denmark supports UAE, US initiative on Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate

According to a top Danish diplomat, Eco-AgricultureDenmark has put its weight behind a joint climate initiative of the UAE and the USA. “Denmark is proud to support the United Arab Emirates’ and the United States’ Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate initiative along with several others,” Franz-Michael S. Mellbin, Danish Ambassador to UAE and Qatar, told […]

Agricultural technology in the Middle East: Sowing the seeds of the future

It is a stark truth that there is a significant gap between the amount of agricultural goods produced and food needs globally. By 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach 10 billion, and in order to keep up with the pace of demand, annual cereal production will need to rise to 3 billion tons, […]

Can agriculture not harm wildlife?

Let’s continue the conversation about why wildlife is important. Oleksiy Vasyliuk, a zoologist from Ukraine and chairman of the UNCG NGO, helped us with consultations. You may read the beginning of the conversation about the reasons for desertification here. The reasons for the loss of biodiversity described in the previous article are interrelated. Loss of […]

Billionaire Jim Mellon, the guest of the Future of Dubai Foundation: “In 10 years there will be no more dairy products”

Livestock is a dying branch of the agricultural industry. Half of all meat and fish will soon be produced using new technologies. This is a statement of the famous billionaire and philanthropist Jim Mellon at the event of the Future of Dubai Foundation, discussing the topics of the agricultural revolution and longevity, Euronews reports. He […]