The College of Food and Agriculture at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) approved
a PhD dissertation presented by Suzan Marwan Shahin and supervised by Dr. Mohammed
Abdul Mohsen AlYafei, Associate Professor in Aridland Agriculture Department, a
Climate change is expected to cause upheaval in many areas of life, including food
production, and it is not just land-based agriculture that will be affected.
Food security is a main concern in the UAE. But the country has a lot of resources
that could be developed to help meet the growing demand. One of them is dates - with
more than 40 million date palms across the Emirates, the fruit is overly produced
The United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) launched the activities of the event 'Zayed
Life: Agriculture and Environment' at the College of Information Technology Building
aiming to highlight the achievements of the Late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al N
Professor Mohamed Albaili, Vice Chancellor of the United Arab Emirates University
(UAEU), initiated on 7th March 2018 the activity named "Ghars Zayed" [Zayed Planting]
to mark the 37th UAE Plantation Week.
The College of Food and Agriculture at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)
organized during March 12-14, 2018 the Food and Agriculture Week under the theme "Following
the Footsteps of Zayed..... Into the Future" to mark the Year of Zayed.
H.E. Majid Al Mansouri, Member and Rapporteur of the Governing Board of the International
Fund for Houbara Conservation (IFHC), and an accompanying delegation visited on Sunday
25th February 2018 Khalifa Center for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnolog
H.E. Mariam Al Mehairi, the UAE’s Minister of State for Food Security, and an accompanying
delegation visited the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and met with Professor
Mohamed Albaili, UAEU Vice Chancellor. The Minister and her accompanying
In today's world, where every conceivable plant-based food and raw material is available
to buy, it is easy to forget that people's lives were once closely linked to the vegetation
that they could find around them.