AgriTech
UAE's agritech push: food security as industrial policy
The Emirates Food Security Council has expanded its mandate to cover controlled-environment agriculture, cell-cultured protein, and desalination-linked aquaculture — with state capital behind each.
The UAE imports roughly 85 per cent of its food. For a country that has made state-capacity industrial policy a signature of its modernisation, that number is not a fact to be accepted — it is a problem to be solved with capital and technology.