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The UAE celebrates with the world the World Food Day which falls on October the16th of each year, which is the day proclaimed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, and the theme of World Food Day in 2014 is: Family Farming: “Feeding the world, caring for the earth” which has been chosen to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder farmers. It focuses world attention on the significant role of family farming in eradicating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources, protecting the environment, and achieving sustainable development, in particular in rural areas.

The UAE supports the joint Arab effort to find an Arab strategic stock of food to cope with the global food crisis, since the food crisis in the world, whether caused by natural factors such as desertification, drought and the scarcity of rain, or human factors such as political crises, armed conflicts, and sustained population growth, make the building of an Arab strategic stock of food a necessity.

Higher Education in UAE pays great attention to agricultural research and studies, and the highlight of it is the “Khalifa Center for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering” at the UAE University which specializes in the genetic fertilization of plants with the aim of increasing agricultural production. The center was opened in the year 2014 and aims to achieve sustainable development in agriculture and plant production; to support the strategic integrated agricultural development planning of the State; to use advanced techniques for the genetic improvement of plants; to find solutions to the agricultural challenges that face the community and to maximize the optimum use of human and economic resources to contribute to finding a radical and lasting solution, enabling the society to meet its food needs by drawing on its resources and capabilities, and achieve local food security, especially in light of the worsening global food shortage problems. The Center is expected to be an international platform for academic and research collaboration among related academic and research institutions.

The “Khalifa International Date Palm Award”, which aims to strengthen the leading role of the State in the development of scientific research of the Palms, reflects the interest of the leadership in food security.

His Excellency Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Chairman of Dubai Ports World, stressed through his participation in the fourth session of the World Investment Forum, held recently in Geneva, that foreign investors should focus on the development of the infrastructure to support the growth of agriculture and natural resources through effective access to markets.


10/15/2014

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