Ministry of Climate Change and Environment formed a task force to bolster national farm sustainability initiative

Ministry of Climate Change and Environment formed a task force to bolster national farm sustainability initiative

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment announced today the formation of a task force to bolster the ‘National Farm Sustainability Initiative’. This is part of the strategic efforts exerted by the ministry to support food sustainability by enabling a national agricultural sector to support the UAE's food security. The task force to enhance the National Farm Sustainability Initiative seeks to find new mechanisms and partnerships and link major supply companies with national farms through cooperation with various relevant government and private sector entities in the country. This paves the way for increasing purchases of national farm products and expanding local production through ensuring purchase agreements, thereby increasing the country's self-sufficiency ratio for selected food items and improving the income of Emirati farms without affecting food trade. The task force is led by His Excellency Engineer Mohammed Mousa Alameeri, Assistant Undersecretary of the Food Diversity Sector at the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, and includes Peter Nichols, Executive Director of Operations at EDEHN Compass; Dr Ray Tinston, Market Director of Monbat; Hamed Ahmed Al Hamed, founder of Gracia Agricultural Group, Omar Al Shamsi, CEO of Watermelon Limited; Yazan Al Qudmani, a partner in 3YAgtech agricultural