Dubai: Expo City Farm launched in Dubai aims to make development self-sufficient
On sidelines of COP28 climate summit, the green space is deploying latest agri-tech tools
By Anjana Kumar,
Gulf News
December 04, 2023
Excerpt:
Dubai: On the sidelines of the COP28 climate conference, Expo City Dubai has launched an organic farm with a vision to make the City and its occupants self-sustainable.
“The long-term goal is to make the City’s workers and residents self-sufficient when it comes to sourcing their organic farming. For now this will serve as an inspiration and education tool to encourage home-grown unique farming,” said Matt Brown, chief of sustainability at Expo City.
“The Expo City farm is important to us for a number of reasons. I think that we have started here at the strategic level. What we are trying to do here is play a part in some of the global issues such as water scarcity, urbanisation, and help achieve decarbonisation by 2050.”
“The Farm itself has been created to look at regenerative agriculture, but also to try and improve the circularity of Expo City Dubai as place to be. In that sense we are clearly on that journey,” he added.
“For example we have not started receiving residents yet but when we do our waste levels will start to increase. What we are trying to do is to try and join them together and create a circular loop in the City.”
