The MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Initiative mobilises a regional movement to advance research, scientific innovation, and nature-based solutions; tackling food systems, water security, and climate challenges.
About the Initiative
Goumbook’s MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Initiative, launched in December 2023, aims to initiate a regenerative agriculture awareness movement, mobilising key stakeholders, and rallying a supportive ecosystem to scale accessible innovative science, research and nature-based solutions. The initiatives addresses the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey (MENAT) region’s unique agricultural challenges — including arid landscapes, land degradation, saline soils, desertification, and water scarcity.
Regenerative agriculture, driven by an evidence-based and practical research approach, offers effective solutions to critical issues such as food security, soil health, water scarcity, climate resilience, carbon sequestration, biodiversity loss, and rural social welfare.
Mobilising MENAT stakeholders to tackle food systems challenges: Our Approach
The MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Initiative objectives
- Create awareness and an enabling ecosystem around regenerative agriculture as a solution to MENAT’s agricultural challenges and opportunities.
- Positions the MENAT region as a seedbed of innovation for climate resilient agriculture solutions.
- Supports the Knowledge Economy by focusing on research, science, and nature-based solutions.
- Capacity Builds academia and research by fostering regenerative and entrepreneurship skills, bridging the gap between academia and business sectors.
- Brings research solutions to life by enabling long-term, accessible, scalable, and sustainable impact solutions.
- Regenerative agriculture, driven by an evidence-based and practical research approach, offers effective solutions to critical issues such as food security, soil health, water scarcity, climate resilience, carbon sequestration, biodiversity loss, and rural social welfare.
MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme
The MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme, is a transformative journey that aims to empower and up-skill, scientists, researchers and students, who are addressing fundamental agricultural challenges of the MENAT region.
We are calling on innovative research, science & nature-based solutions tackling food security, soil health, water scarcity, climate resilience, carbon sequestration, salinity, biodiversity loss, desertification and rural social welfare.
Join this transformative journey, apply now, to develop regenerative and entrepreneurial skills in the domain of research-based agriculture solutions.
Cohort 2023/24 MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Programme Highlights
Fore more details on eligibility criteria, programme benefits and solution categories visit:
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Why Regenerative Agriculture?
Regenerative agriculture is a series of holistic practices designed to create net positive beneficial impacts on ecosystem services.
This includes:
- Improving net carbon sequestration,
- Improving watershed and soil health and;
- Promoting habitat rich in biodiversity while contributing to food security.
By necessity, these practices must provide net beneficial economic, environmental and social impacts for farmers and local communities if they are to be sustainable long term.
Principles of Regenerative Agriculture
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Advisory Committee
SHEIKH DR MAJID AL QASSIMI
Founding Partner at
Soma Mater
DR MOHAMMAD AL-OUN
Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture Consultant
YAZEN AL KODMANI
Partner at 3Y Agtech & Deputy GM at Emirates Bio Farm
GIOVANNI ANGIOLINI
Founder and CEO at Trapital
TATIANA ANTONELLI ABELLA
Founder & Managing Director at Goumbook
DOMINIQUE GHAZAR
Senior Sustainability and Inclusion Manager at HSBC
CHRISTINE GOULD
Founder at Thought for Food
DR CHRISTOPH MANDL
Head of Corporate Venturing at
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Food
DR ROULA MAJDALANI
Climate Change Advisor at
ICARDA - CGIAR
DAVID RAMOS
Senior Manager, Sustainability - MENAT - HSBC
EMAN WAHBY
MENA Engagement Lead at
The Climate Champions Team
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