Regenerative Agriculture as a positive contribution to the future of MENA's Food Systems.
About the Summit
The MENA Regenerative Agriculture Summit returns for its second edition on 10 September 2026, embedded into GrowTech Middle East in Dubai, UAE.
Building on the momentum of the inaugural convening in Riyadh (May 2025), this edition shifts from raising awareness to structuring action, bringing together policymakers, scientists, practitioners, and investors to examine the full spectrum of enablers required to move regenerative agriculture from promising practice to adoption across the region.
The Summit serves as a platform to define the framework conditions needed to accelerate regenerative practices across MENA’s water-scarce, climate-exposed landscapes. The case for MENA as the proving ground for this transition is not rhetorical, it is structural.
MENA Regenerative Agriculture Summit 2025, Riyadh, KSA
Concept
The second edition brings together government leaders, financial institutions, agricultural stakeholders, research bodies, and technology innovators to advance a shared agenda.
Central to this convening is defining regenerative agriculture’s role as a nature-based solution that spans agriculture, climate mitigation, and ecosystem restoration – one that works with natural processes to enrich natural capital, compensate farmers for the ecosystem services they steward, and deliver tangible benefits for the communities who depend on healthy, productive landscapes.
Equally important is the question of how: examining the key enablers – from innovation, finance, and policy to awareness, education, and farmer adoption – that must align to move regenerative agriculture from promising practice to systemic transformation across the region, and to demonstrate that the models being built here can travel.
Addressing regional challenges for climate resilient regenerative agriculture
While the case for regenerative agriculture is increasingly recognized, the pathway to widespread adoption remains obstructed by economic barriers, knowledge gaps, regulatory uncertainty, and fragmented markets.
The second MENA Regenerative Agriculture Summit positions these barriers at the center of its agenda, creating space for candid dialogue and practical problem-solving.
The focus is deliberately action-oriented, moving beyond theoretical frameworks toward scalable solutions that work in MENA’s unique context.
Core Objectives
Establish regional consensus on regenerative agriculture as a full-spectrum nature-based solution and define a MENA-specific research agenda
Position MENA as centre of excellence at the technology-nature crossroads
Strengthen the enabling framework: from policy advocacy to farmer adoption
Connect farmers to markets and communities through regenerative supply chains
Activate youth as agents of regenerative transformation
Previous Speakers
HRH Princess Mashael Al Shalan
Co Founder
Aeon Collective
HRH Princess Noura Al Saud
Co Founder
Aeon Collective
Sheikh Dr Majid Al Qassimi
Managing Partner
Soma Mater Management Consultancies
Dr Nizar Haddad
Program Director KSA
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Dr Khalid Al Rohily
General Manager
Estidamah
Adeem Al Mashaali
Senior Specialist - Regulatory Sandbox
Ministry of Environment Water and Agriculture, KSA
Hadi Al Shakhori
Sunbolah Programme Director
Ministry of Environment, Water & Agriculture, KSA
Dr. Mohammed Al-Surf
Founder & President
Sustainability Professionals of Saudi Arabia (SPSA)
Dr Muez Ali
Research and Policy Lead
Earthna
Sultan Alsaif
Executive Director of Technology & Innovation
Saudi Investment Recycling Company
Giovanni Angiolini
Founder/CEO of Trapital and Director of Middle East and Africa at Dutch Greenhouse Delta
Trapital & Dutch Green House Delta
Tatiana Antonelli Abella
Founder & Managing Director
Goumbook
Elias Chnais
Forest and Landscape Restoration Expert
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
Dr Bassel Daher
Agriculture Development Specialist, Research Network Coordinator
FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa
Christine Gould
Founder
GIGA
Justus Harm
Co-Executive Director
Egyptian Biodynamic Association and Head of Economy of Love (EoL) - SEKEM
Samantha Kayruz
Director Strategy & Sustainability Impact
Goumbook
Dr Sikandra Kurdi
Egypt Country Program Leader
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - CGIAR
Dr Himanshu Mishra
KAUST Professor | Terraxy Co-Founder & Chairman
Kaust & Terraxy
Ahmad Mukhtar
Senior Economist
FAO
David Ramos
Senior Manager in Sustainability
HSBC
Neal Spackman
Founder and Director
Regenerative Enterprise, Former Director Al Baydah Project
Mr Muhammad Tariq
Chief Sustainability Officer
Tanmiah
Dr. Sabrina Vettori
CEO, Founder
Organic Solutions for Environmental Services "Edama"
Eman Wahby
MENA Engagement Lead
UN Climate Change High-Level Champions
Dr Lucy Wallace
Founder
Liminal Thinking
Summit Impact Partners
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