Khaleej Times

women on food security

- Compiled by Sandhya D’Mello

Perfecting practices and scaling them up is key for food security in the country and the region... the time has now come to translate the findings... into on-the-ground applicatio­ns that benefit our country in an economic sense, in addition to providing solutions to our most pressing challenges Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, UAE Minister of State for Future Food Security

In a region like ours, food security is a key concern and a priority for both government and private entities to address... Empowering institutio­ns is at the core of our mission and is essential for building a robust scientific ecosystem, as well as highly-capable human resources Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri, UAE Minister of State for Advanced Sciences

Like any other country, the UAE needs more innovative technologi­es to ensure continued food, water and nutrition security of the population in the future. However, we can achieve this only if we make strategic investment­s into research and innovation today Dr Ismahane Elouafi, Director-general of Internatio­nal Centre for Biosaline Agricultur­e

We are very excited about starting joint initiative­s [with the] Minister of State for Future Food Security and Minister of State for advanced Sciences. It is only through such partnershi­ps that the ICBa can widely disseminat­e and apply the innovative solutions it has developed Seta Tutundjian, Director at Internatio­nal Centre for Biosaline Agricultur­e

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