As Qatar, the UAE and other Gulf countries pour billions of dollars into farmland investments overseas, they should consider a simpler solution to their food security problems: tackling wastage at home, one agricultural expert has said.
According to Gulf News, some one-third of the waste generated in the UAE consists of discarded food.
Qatar, which wants to reduce its dependency on food imports by 2024, also faces this problem. More than half the municipal solid waste generated here is compostable, including leftover food and paper, the Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC) states.
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