Over the decades, the Gulf city of Dubai has emerged as a land of innovation and a place where future could be felt right now in the present. The city is actively encouraging global collaborations to drive innovation and future technology in the United Arab Emirates and internationally through its Dubai Future Accelerators (DFA) initiative that was launched in 2016 under the aegis of Dubai Future Foundation.
In recent years, many Chinese tech firms and start-ups – which are known for their technological prowess – have partnered with DFA to contribute in their mission of imagining, designing and co-creating solutions for future challenges.
Currently, they are developing precision farming tools to accomplish, to increase the productivity, the profitability, and the predictability of food production by up to 10 times.
The urban farming technologies including vertical farms and data-driven food production are certainly relevant for an arid region like the Arabian Peninsula. This will hopefully allow both governments, at large scale, and even community, at a smaller scale, to be able to be in control of their local food production needs.