• Food, Health, Sustainable
camel milk

Meet your next natural superfood: Camel milk

Emma Pearson March 13, 2023

The metal turnstiles grind open and 24 humped beasts begin their parade from the milking pen into the sprawling Al Ain desert. Moments later, a second herd takes its place, and so it continues until every last camel has been milked and the march starts once again.  The milking process at Al Ain Farms camel dairy is a well-oiled machine. Impatient hoofing aside, the resident beasts know the drill, and so they should, with each

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De L'Arta skincare

De L’Arta is skincare from UAE desert plants

Ann Marie McQueen July 21, 2022

If the UAE’s desert plants can grow lush and brilliantly green without water, what could they do for skin? That’s what the team behind the UAE-born, all-natural and organic skincare line De L’Arta wondered. The co-founders – engineer Saeed AlKhoori, soil scientist Lina Yousef and her sister, Sarah, who works on the marketing side – launched the company last year with their first products made from the Tetreana qatarensis plant, aka Tq. A plant that’s

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Krispr indoor farming

How the UAE’s indoor farming sector is exploding

Jonathan Gornall May 23, 2022

On December 14, 2019, the UAE celebrated what appeared to be a remarkable achievement. In just one year it had climbed 10 places on the Global Food Security Index, ranking 21st out of 113 countries and apparently on course to fulfil its extraordinary ambition of achieving a top-10 position by 2021. At the time, Mariam Hareb Almheiri, Minister of State for Food Security, said the jump reflected the government’s determination “to transform the UAE into

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Max Calderan

Want to channel your inner explorer? Here’s how

Mark Lomas December 19, 2021

The year 2020 was a rollercoaster for many people, but no one more Dubai-based explorer Max Calderan. In February he became the first person to cross Saudi Arabia’s fabled Empty Quarter desert on foot. The next month, Calderan was joining the world in Covid-19 lockdown. After the freedom of the vast desert, the shift felt “like a prison sentence.”  Calderan had dreamed of undertaking the expedition since reading about the desert in an encyclopedia when

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