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

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Establish regional consensus on regenerative agriculture as a full-spectrum nature-based solution and define a MENA-specific research agenda

02

Position MENA as centre of excellence at the technology-nature crossroads

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Strengthen the enabling framework: from policy advocacy to farmer adoption

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Build a financial architecture that funds the transition
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Connect farmers to markets and communities through regenerative supply chains

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Activate youth as agents of regenerative transformation

Speakers

Founder & Managing Director

Goumbook

Representative to United Arab Emirates, Leading Economic Analysis and Policy Development

FAO

Research Team Leader

Research, ICARDA

Research & Project Lead

Earthna [Qatar Foundation]

CEO

GlobeScan

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

Innovation and Emerging Technologies Lead

KPMG Saudi Arabia

Director of Marketing and Sales

RDI Irrigation

Co-founder & CEO

Sand to Green

Entrepreneur & Investor

Business Developer

Award-Winning Entrepreneur, Investor, & Impactful Business Developer

Managing Director

Common Source B.V.

Co-Founder & CEO

The Waste Lab

Microbiologist, Scientific Researcher & Lecturer Assistant

Heliopolis University

Executive Director

Egyptian Biodynamic Association (EBDA)

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)

Summit Impact Partners

Goumbook and Impact partner Growtech

Media Partners

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