{"id":16480,"date":"2023-03-27T11:47:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=16480"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:47:24","slug":"public-sector-bodies-in-uae-asked-to-buy-local-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/public-sector-bodies-in-uae-asked-to-buy-local-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Public sector bodies in UAE &lsquo;asked to buy local food&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/supplymanagement.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/supplymanagement.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published: 12 Dec 2022<\/p>\n<p>Public sector bodies such as the military and hospitals in the UAE are being encouraged to buy locally-grown food.<\/p>\n<p>Mariam Al Mheiri, UAE minister of climate change and environment, said a decision had been taken to support local production while embracing an open trade policy, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the World Policy Conference in Abu Dhabi, Al Mheiri said: \u201cWe want to let the trade keep going, but where you have hands on your procurement and what you can buy, this is where you can encourage that a certain percentage of certain food items are bought locally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said more than $150m had been invested to attract agri-tech companies to operate in the UAE, which imports 85% of the food it consumes, according to a <em>report<\/em> by the Australian government.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said it had struck deals worth more than $272m to obtain catering services over the next five years, with contractors encouraged to source locally.<\/p>\n<p>In July what was claimed to be the <em>world&rsquo;s largest vertical farm<\/em> opened in Dubai with a capacity to produce 1m kg of fresh produce each year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 1rem;\">[&#8230;]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lire l&rsquo;article sur le site de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cips.org\/supply-management\/news\/2022\/december\/public-sector-bodies-in-uae-asked-to-buy-local-food\/\">Supply Management<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reuters Published: 12 Dec 2022 Public sector bodies such as the military and hospitals in the UAE are being encouraged to buy locally-grown food. Mariam Al Mheiri, UAE minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-16480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-review","tag-153"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}