Located in the westernmost region of North Africa, Morocco has an impressively diversified economy and in recent years has benefited from steady growth. The country has strong trade links with the EU and has a young population – with the median age of its roughly 32m people at 27.3 years – which in turn provides the country with a large supply of available and comparatively skilled labour.
Water has become the number one concern for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In formulating its agricultural policy, the need to limit water usage runs through all its policies. The government has long realised that the drain the agriculture sector has been placing on the country’s finite and limited water resources is unsustainable. In 2009...
The Saudi Agriculture show on the outskirts of Riyadh in September 2012 was testament to the buzz surrounding one of the most interesting agricultural sectors in the Middle East. Investors from Europe and Asia were out in force, promoting everything from irrigation equipment to new animal feeds and fertilisers. It is not hard to understand the...
As Saudi Arabia scales back on domestic agricultural production in key staples such as wheat and alfalfa (for animal fodder), the country is becoming more reliant on food and agricultural imports. In a bid to mitigate the potential impact of international food price volatility, several Saudi companies, supported by government incentives, are...
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