The Emirati city’s agricultural tech center, Silal’s Innovation Oasis (iO), signed an agreement with Square Roots to promote indoor and desert-adapted farming innovations and conduct experiments with desert-suited crops.
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The country wrapped up a series of activities earlier this week to accelerate the implementation of the Great Green Wall, an African Union initiative to restore degraded landscapes and combat desertification.
Ana Elisa Murta reimagines the use of iron ore in the Mineral Garden exhibition, on view until February 16 at the Bassam Freiha Art Foundation in Abu Dhabi.
An exhibition held by the Saudi Ministry of Culture showcases works by artists from the Arab country at the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro. The collection celebrates visual art as a way to rethink how people interpret the world around them.
The Tunisian city is hosting the first edition of the International Oasis and Desert Tourism Exhibition from this Tuesday (3) to Thursday (5). The event highlights the beauty of these two ecosystems to attract tourists.
The Arab country launched seeding operations to expand vegetation cover. Most part of the country’s surface area is occupied by deserts and barren soils.
‘Arábia: A Saga dos Filhos do Deserto’ [‘Arábia: The Saga of the Sons of the Desert’] will be a four-class online course in Portuguese lectured by historian Plínio Gomes starting on April 12. Registration is open.
Researcher at Unesp is one of the authors of a research paper on images of the desertification process in Sudan.
The emirate is a 40-minute drive away from Dubai and offers adventure and leisure activities in mountains, deserts and the sea. Ras Al Khaimah aims to welcome 150% more tourists by 2030.
“The Tumour” was written by Ibrahim Al-Koni, who was born and raised in the desert of the Tuareg people in Libya. The book is on pre-sale until April 25.
Organic, local foods are a priority in the jams by Mooneh, a brand founded by Dima Al Sharif and her husband Firas Kanaan in the United Arab Emirates.
The hotel offers 120 accommodations and several services, such as bathing, food, care, and security. The daily rate costs about USD 100.
The rooms of the three-level and over 15,000-square-meter pavilion tell the history of the foundation of the United Arab Emirates and the dreams of founders in an immersive, sensorial experience.
The country’s Ministry of Agriculture announced on Thursday, May 6, that it will implement an afforestation center in the Al-Qatraneh desert, 90 km south of Amman, the country’s capital city.
