Focus on agriculture at virtual Davos reflects `growing criticality of food security’
Dubai, UAE, February 1, 2021 The World Economic Forum s Davos event - the annual meeting of global political leaders and business elite, which shapes policies and partnerships for a more inclusive, cohesive and sustainable future - was held virtually this year, due to the continuing global pandemic. In a departure from previous editions, Davos 2021 featured an increased focus on agriculture and food production, along with their knock-on effects on climate change, water scarcity and deforestation. These developments reflect how the pandemic has reset our attention, on to pressing issues that are nearing an irreversible tipping point and can no longer be ignored, said Chandra Dake, CEO and Founder of Dake Rechsand, a Dubai-based company offering sustainable solutions in agriculture. Access to food is a basic human right, but last year, 690 million people were chronically undernourishe
Dake Rechsand lauds the shift in global agenda, towards sustainable growth. Chandra Dake is the CEO and Founder of Dake Reschand Image Credit: Supplied
Dubai: The World Economic Forum s Davos event - the annual meeting of global political leaders and business elite, which shapes policies and partnerships for a more inclusive, cohesive and sustainable future - was held virtually this year, due to the continuing global pandemic. In a departure from previous editions, Davos 2021 featured an increased focus on agriculture and food production, along with their knock-on effects on climate change, water scarcity and deforestation. These developments reflect how the pandemic has reset our attention, on to pressing issues that are nearing an irreversible tipping point and can no longer be ignored, said Chandra Dake, CEO and Founder of Dake Rechsand, a Dubai-based company offering sustainable solutions in agriculture. Access to food is a basic human right
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advantage of falling property prices caused
by the Covid-19 pandemic to buy their first
homes in the emirate.
The National spoke to first-time buyers who benefited from the unexpected opportunity to put down roots in Dubai.
Property prices were 8 per cent lower year-on-year in Dubai and 4 per cent lower in Abu Dhabi during the fourth quarter of 2020,
in part because of the wide-ranging economic effects of coronavirus.
It turned out that having a mortgage and renting a property would end up costing me around the same anyway
Tariq Rao
“I was initially thinking of upgrading by renting a bigger apartment than the one I was living in but then the pandemic happened,” said Australian Tariq Rao, 51.
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