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  • Khaled Bin Alwaleed’s KBW Ventures Invests In Seattle-Based Rebellyous Foods’ Equity Round

    After participating in Rebellyous Foods' US$6 million Series A round in April 2020, KBW Ventures, the investment firm founded by Saudi Arabia's Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, has backed the Seattle-based food manufacturing technology company again by investing in its new $9.5 million equity round.

  • Tanmiah Food Company and Tyson Foods Strengthen Strategic Partnership at Saudi Arabia Event

    Saudi-based Tanmiah Food Company ("Tanmiah" or the "Company", 2281 on the Saudi Exchange) and US-based Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) met this week in Jeddah to recognize their strategic partnership made in 2022 including the potential growth opportunities across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East.

  • NEOM looks to seafood as Saudi Arabia plans self-sufficiency by 2030

    NEOM is looking to seafood as it eyes a sustainable and self-sufficient future of food production in Saudi Arabia. NEOM is teaming up with the Arabian Agricultural Services Company (ARASCO) and Cargill to develop sustainable aquaculture sector and achieve protein self-sufficiency by 2030. The three parties will work together to explore and scale up sustainable ways to meet rising domestic demand for aquaculture, including through research and development into more sustainable feed sources. Nasser A. Abanmi, ARASCO CEO, said: “Aquaculture began in Saudi nearly 35 years ago, now it became one of the highest exports in the KSA.

  • Can Vertical Farming Cut The Middle East’s Reliance On Food Imports?

    Globally, the biggest vertical farming market is the United States, but growth could accelerate quickly in other countries with limited space, such as Singapore, or with a tough climate, like those in the Middle East.

  • How the Energy Crisis Impacts Global Food Insecurity

    The latest data from the FAO marks 29.3% of the entire world population to be moderately or severely food insecure, with 40% of this population experiencing severe food insecurity.

  • All food in Saudi Arabia is halal, SFDA asserts

    The SFDA statement came in response to a report being circulated on social media claiming that one of the well-known biscuit brand available in the Kingdom contained pork fat. The authority routinely subjects questionable products to precautionary laboratory analysis, in order to ensure their authenticity and compliance with the approved standard specifications,” the statement said.

  • The Top 10 most-read Middle East food and beverage stories in 2022

    Read our top 10 most viewed Middle East food and beverage stories in 2022, featuring several well-known regional brands.

  • Qatar World Cup: Fans hope prayer rooms, halal food and clean toilets become norm

    "The call to prayer, open prayer spaces, the respect and importance of family, and the [hadiths] on billboards... all contribute to dispelling myths and laying the foundations for a new narrative post-World Cup," Ebadur Rahman, founder of Nujum Sports, which empowers and supports Muslim athletes, told Middle East Eye. The sights and sounds of Doha have undoubtedly piqued the curiosity of non-Muslim visitors to the World Cup.

  • Khaled Bin Alwaleed’s KBW Ventures Joins Series A Round For American Foodtech Startup Black Sheep Farms

    "KBW Ventures is backing Black Sheep Foods with our eyes on the massive addressable market size of sheep and the other heritage meats that the company has in the pipeline," Prince Khaled told Entrepreneur Middle East. "The company's technology, allowing for an amplified flavor profile, excellent texture, and good nutritional approach, makes for a winning platform. We see Black Sheep Foods blazing a new trail for a needed product profile that has thus far gone unaddressed."

  • Greenhouses to vertical farming: The Middle East’s path to foolproof food security

    “Food security and food sufficiency do not go hand in hand,” explained Tester. He added that countries in the Middle East, including GCC member nations, should diversify their sources of food, while simultaneously investing in technology that can accomplish internal sourcing. Pointing to England’s current egg shortage as an example, Tester advised: “Don’t put your eggs in one basket and don’t source all your eggs from the same chickens in the same barn, because when that chicken barn goes down, bang, look at what’s happening in England.”