The MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Initiative spearheads a regional movement to advance research, scientific innovation, and nature-based solutions; tackling food systems, water security, and climate challenges.

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MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme

Goumbook’s MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Programme aims to initiate a regionally-relevant regenerative agriculture movement, positioning regenerative agriculture as a critical response to both climate resilience and the unique agricultural challenges faced in this arid, saline, desert, and water-scarce region.

The programme aims to empower and upskill researchers and innovators who are addressing fundamental agricultural challenges in the MENAT region by focusing on innovative solutions related to food security, soil health, climate change mitigation and adaptation, carbon sequestration, salinity, water scarcity, desertification, biodiversity loss, and rural social welfare.

To learn more about the Venture Programme, eligibility criteria, benefits and the inaugural year cohort 2023/2024 achievement, click here

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Calling researchers and innovators addressing agricultural challenges in the MENAT region

Do you have an early stage research-backed, science or nature- based solution related to: food & water security, soil health, climate change mitigation and adaptation, salinity, desertification, biodiversity loss, and rural social welfare.

Is your research tackling the core agricultural challenges in the MENAT region , including arid land, salinity, desertification, and water scarcity?

Ready to develop and enhance your entrepreneurship skills?

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
Acting Head of Sustainability MENAT at HSBC

EMAN WAHBY
MENA Engagement Lead at
The Climate Champions Team

Why Regeneration 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.

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