UAE’s MBRGI & WEF to form Global Platform for Food Innovation Hubs

  • Date: 24-May-2022
  • Source: GCC Business News
  • Sector:Technology
  • Country:UAE
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UAE’s MBRGI & WEF to form Global Platform for Food Innovation Hubs

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI), a UAE-based philanthropic foundation, and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have signed an agreement to collaborate in the creation of the Global Platform for Food Innovation Hubs, at the WEF Annual Meeting 2022 at Davos.

WEF launched the Food Innovation Hubs initiatives to strengthen local innovation ecosystems to facilitate food system transformation, and this new international platform will contribute to focusing and accelerating the scope of innovation to improve sustainable food production mechanisms around the world.

The agreement, which paves the way for three-year cooperation, was signed by His Excellency Saeed Al Eter, Assistant Secretary-General of the MBRGI, and Mr. Sean De Cleene, member of the Executive Committee of the WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, in the presence of a number of officials from both sides.

The new Global Platform for Food Innovation Hubs aims to improve international food science and research cooperation, exchange of knowledge, experiences, and data to build local food production systems, and support national and global policies to achieve and enhance food security. As a result, it will benefit the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, especially the second goal of eradicating hunger.

The agreement confirms Dubai as the international headquarters for the annual