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 28 October 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
Speakers
Representative to United Arab Emirates, Leading Economic Analysis and Policy Development
FAO
Professor & Chair
Plant Science, Center of Excellence for Sustainable Food Security
Hamad Mohammed Ali Al Balooshi
Director General
Aura Agriculture Guidance & Head of Public Relations, UAE Agriculture Pioneers Association
Mohammed Almehrzi
CEO
TYAR for Advanced Technologies
Qadreya Al Awadhi
Founder and CEO
Bumblebee (food)
Saeed Ahmed Al Remeithi
President
UAE Youth Council for Agriculture
Entrepreneur & Investor
Business Developer
Award-Winning Entrepreneur, Investor, & Impactful Business Developer
Laila Ayman
Head of Research & Innovation Support Unit
Heliopolis University
Lorenzo Tacchella
Head of Private Sector Partnerships for the GCC countries
World Food Programme (WFP)
Sustainability Strategist
East Precision Agriculture & Innovative Technology LLC (EPAIT)
Media Partners
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