The Hidden Threat to Food Sovereignty Across the MENA Region

Across the Middle East and North Africa, significant investment is being directed into controlled environment agriculture, protected cultivation, and modern food production systems to strengthen food security and reduce long-term import dependency. Yet while much of the sector remains focused on climate control, irrigation precision, protected growing structures, and yield optimisation, a critical vulnerability still […]

The Real Constraint in Climate-Adaptive Agriculture: Project Readiness

Across the Gulf and other import-dependent regions, capital is no longer the primary constraint on climate-adaptive agriculture. Governments have allocated budgets, published food security strategies, and signalled clear intent. Yet a meaningful number of funded projects continue to underperform, stall after construction, or fail to achieve operational stability. The shortfall is rarely capital alone. More […]

LinkedIn-Article-20260504

The GCC Tomato Gap LinkedIn Article 04-05-2026 Tomatoes are among the most consumed fresh products in the GCC, and among the most exposed to supply disruption. Across the region, domestic production drops sharply between April and October, when summer conditions push cooling requirements beyond what most greenhouse systems can carry economically. During this period, supply […]

The GCC Tomato Gap

Tomatoes are among the most consumed fresh products in the GCC, and among the most exposed to supply disruption. Each summer, domestic production contracts and import dependency rises. The pattern is predictable, but recent disruptions have shown how quickly it can become a structural vulnerability. Closing this gap is not simply a question of capacity. […]

Sustainability vs the Bottom Line in Commercial Horticulture

The shift toward closed-loop, resource-efficient greenhouse systems is accelerating. Water recycling, nutrient recovery, and lower-carbon production are increasingly being engineered into modern facilities. In many cases, these are no longer optional features, but part of the baseline design for new developments. However, these systems come with a cost. Higher capital expenditure, increased technical complexity, and […]