by Ehsan Bayat | Feb 7, 2024 | Agriculture
The pandemic disrupted food supplies around the world, threatening the 822 million people already experiencing chronic undernourishment, and posing an even greater danger to the 113 million people in need of life-saving food assistance. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...
by Ehsan Bayat | Jan 24, 2024 | Agriculture
Across the Middle East today, the agritech industry is seeing healthy growth as farmers, startups, major companies, and governments work to boost local production to meet future demand for food. Robots are being deployed to harvest crops in greenhouses and autonomous...
by Ehsan Bayat | Jan 5, 2024 | Agriculture, Conservation, Infrastructure
The world’s deserts are arid ecosystems that receive less than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of annual rainfall. Although daytime temperatures in some deserts are extremely hot, climbing as high as 130 degrees Fahrenheit, after nightfall, temperatures typically...
by Ehsan Bayat | Dec 23, 2023 | Agriculture, Construction, Infrastructure
Talk about desert cities typically conjures images of the Middle East, from modern metropolitan oases like Dubai, to vital commercial hubs of the ancient world, like Petra in Jordan. Consisting of expansive areas of sand and little more, deserts are some of the...
by Ehsan Bayat | Dec 9, 2023 | Agriculture
Food security is an increasing concern across the Middle East because many countries throughout the region are heavily dependent on foreign imports. Some buy significantly more food from other countries than they export. In order to overcome food supply and security...
by Ehsan Bayat | Nov 25, 2023 | Business
With markets and workforces undergoing periods of rapid change in recent years, smart business leaders are focusing their attention on improving their leadership skills to help their businesses grow sustainably and remain relevant in evolving markets. Entrepreneurs,...
by Ehsan Bayat | Nov 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
For millennia, the region now recognized as the United Arab Emirates has been populated by humans. The area linked trade between the civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and as far afield as the Levant. Throughout the emirate, archaeologists have unearthed...
by Ehsan Bayat | Oct 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Land development projects in the Middle East are more important now than ever before. The devastating effects of climate change have hit Middle Eastern and North African nations very hard. The economic damage is matched by the humanitarian crises that have emerged in...
by Ehsan Bayat | Sep 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
In March 2022, Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) warned the international community that Afghanistan must not be forgotten as the world turned its attention to the war in Ukraine. Steiner lobbied for continued investment to save the...
by Ehsan Bayat | Aug 28, 2023 | Agriculture
Desertification is impacting drylands all over the world. Culminating in land degradation, it’s caused by a combination of things, including climate variation and human activities. The intensity and range of desertification has increased significantly in some dryland...
