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.
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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Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme | Sheikh Dr Majid, Advisory Member
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
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.