MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme
Join a transformative journey: MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme Cohort 2024 – 2025
Programme Journey
Programme benefits
Upskilling
Support in validating your solution, develop business skills to evolve your research into an impact-driven proof of concept
Acceleration
Access potential funding & incubation
Community
Access to online digital community platform
Courses
Free access to a range of online self-paced courses
Exposure
Regional exposure & networking across the programme
Mentorship
Specialist training & world-class mentorship
Talks
Expert talks on innovation & trends
Grant
Top 3 finalists win one of three $20,000 grants
Eligibility Criteria
We seek impactful research, science and nature-based solutions that meet the following eligibility criteria:
Domain
Solutions in the field of regenerative agriculture , supporting climate smart agriculture and sustainable farming practices
Profile
Researchers and innovators looking to scale and develop their research to a proof of concept stage and funding by enhancing their skills in business and entrepreneurship.
Solutions
Solution is rooted in research, science or nature based innovative solutions. Solutions can be process or technological innovations.
Solution Relevance
Applications must address the food system challenges specific to the MENAT region, including: Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation; Restoring Soil Health; Combating Desertification; Carbon Farming and Sequestration; Increasing Biodiversity; Improving Food and Water Security; Supporting Farmers
Regional Relevance
Solutions must be applicable and valid to agriculture challenges, opportunities, and conditions within the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey (MENAT) region. Countries excluded are: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Sudan, and Syria.
MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Solutions
Solutions can be process driven or technological, across these examples of regenerative agriculture themes and topic examples:
- Healthy soil regeneration
- Diversified crops
- Organic & Bio Fertilisers
- Develop biodiversity
- Sustainable food security
- Use fewer chemicals
- Enhances water security
- Use organic waste
- Integrate livestock & agroforestry: Silvopasture
- Reinforce carbon capture
- Enhance rural & social welfare
- Reduces desertification & salinity
- Reduction of synthetic pesticides for disease control
- Technological solutions
Partners
In Partnership with:
Supported by:
Impact partner
Proud Members of
Platform Partners
Programme Achievements - Cohort 2023/24
20
20 semi-finalist projects were selected by 12 expert judges
12 Mentors
30 hours of mentorship
17 Speakers
Over 20 hours of specialised workshops and subject matter talks
158
Registrations Received
53
Validated Applications From 18 Countries From The MENA region
19
Academic Regional Institutions Supported the Program
43% - 57%
43% of applications were from women and 57% were from men
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MENAT Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme Winners 2023/24
The winners of the Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme will receive a range of awards and further supporting benefits, including financial grants of USD 10,000 each, incubation opportunities, and access to a supportive stakeholder community, to help them scale their solutions on regional farmland, developing proof of concepts and expanding across different crops and farming conditions. These resources will empower the winners to further develop and scale their innovative solutions, drive real-world impact, and contribute to the overall sustainability & food security efforts in the MENAT region.
Revolutionizing agriculture, MePhSIN, a groundbreaking nano-platform, encapsulates plant growth regulators, unlocking a new era of enhanced crop resilience, doubling wheat production by 2050, and overcoming challenges in global food security.
Researcher(s)
Katya Michelle Aguilar Perez, Valeriia Nikolaeva, Viiktoria Zheltova, Khozama Al Mohawes
Cyanoboost: Transition to regenerative farming with biofertilizers
Heliopolis University, Egypt
- Biofertilizers
“Cyanoboost” is a bio-fertilizer product that enhance the whole plant growth performance, improve the extracted essential oils, and increase the diversity of the rhizospheric microbiome in medicinal plants.
Researcher(s)
Doaa Ibrahim, Eman Nour El-deen Hamed
The Waste Lab - From Food Waste Rescue to Compost Production to Soil Building in the UAE and the Region
Individual, UAE
- Organic fertilizers
The Waste Lab’s solution is to create an opportunity for every food scrap to become a solution for rather than a burden on our society and environment by combining nature-based principles, data-driven operations, local production and application of compost, and community engagement.
Researcher(s)
Lara Hussein, Ceylan Uren, Nick Little, Sara Al Darras
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