Lincolnshire-based Jones Food Company, which operates Europe’s largest vertical farm, wants to expand its concept to the Emirates. Courtesy James Deavin/Jones Food Company
Lincolnshire-based Jones Food Company, which operates Europe’s largest vertical farm, wants to expand its concept to the Emirates. Courtesy James Deavin/Jones Food Company
Lincolnshire-based Jones Food Company, which operates Europe’s largest vertical farm, wants to expand its concept to the Emirates. Courtesy James Deavin/Jones Food Company
Lincolnshire-based Jones Food Company, which operates Europe’s largest vertical farm, wants to expand its concept to the Emirates. Courtesy James Deavin/Jones Food Company

How two British companies are battling it out for a share of UAE’s $1m FoodTech prize


Alice Haine
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While the coronavirus pandemic has flagged up the world’s reliance on globalisation and international travel, it also highlighted something far more crucial – the importance of food security.

A global race is underway to address this issue and the UAE has thrown down a challenge to all-comers to come up with answers. Two British companies are now in the running to win a share of a $1 million prize from the UAE FoodTech Challenge, a competition that aims to find agritech solutions to the food security issues that plague the globe.

Lincolnshire-based Jones Food Company (JFC), which operates Europe’s largest vertical farm, while London’s SafetyNet Technologies, which has developed an LED-equipped netting system to help fishermen avoid snaring certain species with their catch, are among 12 finalists competing for the prize on November 17 and 18. More than 435 entrants from 68 countries entered the contest.

Pioneers of the technological revolution in farming believe that bringing agriculture indoors allows a number of advances including control of the environment. In countries where the climate may not be conducive to growing this means a supply of fresh produce all year, regardless of the outdoor conditions.

Jones Food Company, which has 4,000 square metres of growing space, can produce up to to 100 tonnes of herbs and leafy greens a year. Courtesy James Deavin/Jones Food Company
Jones Food Company, which has 4,000 square metres of growing space, can produce up to to 100 tonnes of herbs and leafy greens a year. Courtesy James Deavin/Jones Food Company

Since the facility is completely self-contained, there is no need for pesticide or herbicide, with produce grown using hydroponic technology, without soil and with 95 per cent less water used than in traditional farming – ideal for the UAE.

“What we saw in the UAE is a combination of factors which made domestic farming for certain produce quite tricky – the climate, the lack of stable arable land, and the kind of high urban levels, with the populations concentrated in urban areas,” said Will Parry of Jones Food Company on the decision to enter the FoodTech Challenge.

“We see vertical farming as a prime solution to these issues where you can supply super-fresh produce within a few days to a growing urban population. So we saw the UAE as the perfect partner for us, but we didn't have any boots on the ground there and this competition is a great way to learn about the market and … build relationships in order to help us launch into the country.”

Increasing the UAE's self-sufficiency, indigenous food production capabilities and reducing food waste are key priorities for the country's government, which unveiled its food security strategy in 2018. It aims to produce 60 per cent more food by 2051 and halve the amount of food wasted each year by 2030.

The Pisces device, produced by SafetyNet Technologies, helps fishermen avoid snaring certain species with their catch. Courtesy SafetyNet Technologies
The Pisces device, produced by SafetyNet Technologies, helps fishermen avoid snaring certain species with their catch. Courtesy SafetyNet Technologies

Like many desert nations, the UAE has limited access to fresh water and only 1 per cent of its land is arable, meaning the country faces significant hurdles in producing food to sustain its rapidly expanding population.

With the UAE importing between 80 to 90 per cent of its food, according to the FoodTech Challenge, and the country’s average temperate expected to increase by 2.5 Celsius by 2050, food production faces a number of difficulties.

"When we launched the challenge over a year ago, we could never have anticipated the situation we find ourselves in today," said Mariam Almheiri, minister of state for food and water security, which is hosting the competition with Abu Dhabi company Tamkeen.

The Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on global food chains has reiterated the need for us to reduce our reliance on food imports and to find new ways of producing food.

"The Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on global food chains has reiterated the need for us to reduce our reliance on food imports and to find new ways of producing food, with technology-enabled home farming being one particular area of promise."

SafetyNet Technologies, another UK finalist, said the UAE’s mission aligns with its own bid to create technology that can help a growing global population that’s dependent on fish as a primary source of protein.

“The UAE is a really large market and they eat double the average of the global consumption of fish, so it's quite a high fish-consuming country,” said Nadia Laabs, co-founder and chief operating officer at the company.

“Their fisheries sector has been growing year on year. I think this is one area where we would like to be able to help them harvest the ocean sustainably and responsibly feed the growing population.”

Not yet active in the UAE, JFC is a UK-grown business that started operations in 2016 when founder James Lloyd-Jones saw a television programme about vertical farming.

After carrying out some research, Mr Lloyd-Jones concluded that in order for the venture to work, he had to build the biggest farm he could, which he did in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.

Because JFC is completely self-contained, there is no need for pesticide or herbicide, with produce grown using hydroponic technology, without soil and with 95 per cent less water used than in traditional farming. Courtesy James Deavin/Jones Food Company
Because JFC is completely self-contained, there is no need for pesticide or herbicide, with produce grown using hydroponic technology, without soil and with 95 per cent less water used than in traditional farming. Courtesy James Deavin/Jones Food Company

Today, the farm is the largest in Europe with 4,000 square metres of growing space, the equivalent of 26 tennis courts, which is capable of growing between 50 to 100 tonnes of herbs and leafy greens a year.

“What you have is an extremely land-efficient, resource-efficient, indoor environment that can control the growing conditions with absolute precision in order to create the best product possible,” said Mr Parry.

He said JFC’s concept would help the UAE reduce its reliance on international imports because the farm can grow at scale and at volume, which would drastically reduce food miles.

Like British consumers, UAE shoppers increasingly like to buy food that has not travelled a long way and with the pandemic disrupting supply chains “in a way we’ve never seen before”, the need for vertical farming has never been more obvious, said Mr Parry.

While the UAE already has a handful of vertical farms in operation, Mr Parry says JFC has an advantage as it can build large farms that measure up to 10,000 square metres.

“Scale is a key part in terms of fulfilling large retail contracts and serving significant chunks of the population,” he said.

The company, which plans to open a second UK facility next year in an undisclosed location, also has the muscle of British online supermarket Ocado, which last year became the lead investor in JFC, taking the total the company has raised so far to around £10 million.

“They really are the leader on grocery automation, logistics, engineering and construction and we have that muscle behind us," said Mr Parry. "There really are no other vertical farm builders that bring all that to the table.”

If JFC won the contest, Mr Parry said the company would use the money to help start up its UAE arm, with Abu Dhabi a good fit initially and the focus set to be on leafy greens such as kale, pak choi and lettuce as well as herbs.

The co-founders of SafetyNet Technolgoies Nadia Laabs (left), Dan Watson (centre) and Aran Dasan (right). Mr Watson came up with the concept for the company while studying design engineering at Glasgow University. Courtesy SafetyNet Technologies
The co-founders of SafetyNet Technolgoies Nadia Laabs (left), Dan Watson (centre) and Aran Dasan (right). Mr Watson came up with the concept for the company while studying design engineering at Glasgow University. Courtesy SafetyNet Technologies

For SafetyNet Technologies, a company started in 2011 by Dan Watson, the journey to the UAE has taken a little longer.

Mr Watson was studying design engineering at Glasgow University when he was asked to design a solution for a recurrent global issue. After reading about Norwegian fishermen being fined for discarding fish they didn’t want from their catch, he came across scientific papers from the 1970s where scientists noticed interesting behavioural responses from fish to light.

He contacted scientists that were looking at light as a bycatch mitigation – a technique used to reduce the catch of non-target species – and started developing tools for that.

“The initial prototype was a hardware that would fit into the nets and was literally a ring that lit up,” said Ms Laabs.

Today that device has evolved into Pisces, a product designed with UK fisheries that uses different frequency, intensity and polarisation of light to attract or repel species of fish, depending on what fishermen want to catch.

“Right now about one in 10 fish that are caught are actually the wrong fish,” said Ms Laabs. “They could either be juvenile, an endangered species or just non-market species that can’t be sold easily.”

With stricter fishing regulations in the EU, the US and elsewhere, Ms Laabs said fishermen must now land all the fish they catch rather than throw them overboard.

“So this leads to over 9 million tonnes of fish being discarded each year that are currently caught wrongly," she said.

Using a precision fishing product that only catches the desired species reduces waste, as applying light technology can reduce the bycatch by up to 90 per cent.

Pak Paiso, an artisanal fisherman in Muncar, Indonesia, with the Pisces device. Courtesy SafetyNet Technologies
Pak Paiso, an artisanal fisherman in Muncar, Indonesia, with the Pisces device. Courtesy SafetyNet Technologies

Like JFC, SafetyNet has not entered the UAE market but is operating in the UK, across parts of the EU, South America and Southeast Asia.

The company, which raised £1.1m last year from three investment organisations, rolled out the Pisces product in March at the start of the global Covid-19 pandemic.

However, within days SafetyNet was forced to send its 10 London employees to work from home during the lockdown, even furloughing some staff over the summer.

"Given that the sales weren't turning out as we'd hoped and given the market downturn, furlough was one of the options we agreed on as a company for cost saving," said Ms Laabs.

SafetyNet, which sells hardware kits to major supermarkets and fisheries, initially projected sales of 100 units by the end of the year, but so far the tally is four.

The company operates on a service model, as it regularly configures the device depending on what the fisheries want to catch.

Both SatefyNet and JFC will pitch their solutions during a two-day online final ceremony on November 17 and 18, with four winners sharing the prize fund and receiving a place with a UAE-run accelerator programme to help them bring their companies to the UAE market.

For SafetyNet this offers the chance to test its technology on fish native to the UAE, such as Spanish mackerel, emperors and groupers.

"We’d like to perform some of our trials there to see how effective they can be for those markets and then hopefully be able to supply the relevant fisheries as well," said Ms Laabs.

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Rating: 4/5

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Second Test

In Dubai

Pakistan 418-5 (declared)
New Zealand 90 and 131-2 (follow on)

Day 3: New Zealand trail by 197 runs with 8 wickets remaining

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US PGA Championship in numbers

Joost Luiten produced a memorable hole in one at the par-three fourth in the first round.

To date, the only two players to win the PGA Championship after winning the week before are Rory McIlroy (2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational) and Tiger Woods (2007, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational). Hideki Matsuyama or Chris Stroud could have made it three.

Number of seasons without a major for McIlroy, who finished in a tie for 22nd.

4 Louis Oosthuizen has now finished second in all four of the game's major championships.

In the fifth hole of the final round, McIlroy holed his longest putt of the week - from 16ft 8in - for birdie.

For the sixth successive year, play was disrupted by bad weather with a delay of one hour and 43 minutes on Friday.

Seven under par (64) was the best round of the week, shot by Matsuyama and Francesco Molinari on Day 2.

Number of shots taken by Jason Day on the 18th hole in round three after a risky recovery shot backfired.

Jon Rahm's age in months the last time Phil Mickelson missed the cut in the US PGA, in 1995.

10 Jimmy Walker's opening round as defending champion was a 10-over-par 81.

11 The par-four 11th coincidentally ranked as the 11th hardest hole overall with a scoring average of 4.192.

12 Paul Casey was a combined 12 under par for his first round in this year's majors.

13 The average world ranking of the last 13 PGA winners before this week was 25. Kevin Kisner began the week ranked 25th.

14 The world ranking of Justin Thomas before his victory.

15 Of the top 15 players after 54 holes, only Oosthuizen had previously won a major.

16 The par-four 16th marks the start of Quail Hollow's so-called "Green Mile" of finishing holes, some of the toughest in golf.

17 The first round scoring average of the last 17 major champions was 67.2. Kisner and Thorbjorn Olesen shot 67 on day one at Quail Hollow.

18 For the first time in 18 majors, the eventual winner was over par after round one (Thomas shot 73).

Common OCD symptoms and how they manifest

Checking: the obsession or thoughts focus on some harm coming from things not being as they should, which usually centre around the theme of safety. For example, the obsession is “the building will burn down”, therefore the compulsion is checking that the oven is switched off.

Contamination: the obsession is focused on the presence of germs, dirt or harmful bacteria and how this will impact the person and/or their loved ones. For example, the obsession is “the floor is dirty; me and my family will get sick and die”, the compulsion is repetitive cleaning.

Orderliness: the obsession is a fear of sitting with uncomfortable feelings, or to prevent harm coming to oneself or others. Objectively there appears to be no logical link between the obsession and compulsion. For example,” I won’t feel right if the jars aren’t lined up” or “harm will come to my family if I don’t line up all the jars”, so the compulsion is therefore lining up the jars.

Intrusive thoughts: the intrusive thought is usually highly distressing and repetitive. Common examples may include thoughts of perpetrating violence towards others, harming others, or questions over one’s character or deeds, usually in conflict with the person’s true values. An example would be: “I think I might hurt my family”, which in turn leads to the compulsion of avoiding social gatherings.

Hoarding: the intrusive thought is the overvaluing of objects or possessions, while the compulsion is stashing or hoarding these items and refusing to let them go. For example, “this newspaper may come in useful one day”, therefore, the compulsion is hoarding newspapers instead of discarding them the next day.

Source: Dr Robert Chandler, clinical psychologist at Lighthouse Arabia

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Torque: 350Nm @ 1,500rpm

Fuel economy, combined: 10.4L / 100km

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Engine: 3.4-litre twin-turbo V6 plus supplementary electric motor

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Torque: 790Nm from 2,000-3,600rpm

Transmission: 10-speed auto

Fuel consumption: 11.7L/100km

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Engine: 2.0-litre 4-cyl turbo

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Milestones on the road to union

1970

October 26: Bahrain withdraws from a proposal to create a federation of nine with the seven Trucial States and Qatar. 

December: Ahmed Al Suwaidi visits New York to discuss potential UN membership.

1971

March 1:  Alex Douglas Hume, Conservative foreign secretary confirms that Britain will leave the Gulf and “strongly supports” the creation of a Union of Arab Emirates.

July 12: Historic meeting at which Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid make a binding agreement to create what will become the UAE.

July 18: It is announced that the UAE will be formed from six emirates, with a proposed constitution signed. RAK is not yet part of the agreement.

August 6:  The fifth anniversary of Sheikh Zayed becoming Ruler of Abu Dhabi, with official celebrations deferred until later in the year.

August 15: Bahrain becomes independent.

September 3: Qatar becomes independent.

November 23-25: Meeting with Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid and senior British officials to fix December 2 as date of creation of the UAE.

November 29:  At 5.30pm Iranian forces seize the Greater and Lesser Tunbs by force.

November 30: Despite  a power sharing agreement, Tehran takes full control of Abu Musa. 

November 31: UK officials visit all six participating Emirates to formally end the Trucial States treaties

December 2: 11am, Dubai. New Supreme Council formally elects Sheikh Zayed as President. Treaty of Friendship signed with the UK. 11.30am. Flag raising ceremony at Union House and Al Manhal Palace in Abu Dhabi witnessed by Sheikh Khalifa, then Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.

December 6: Arab League formally admits the UAE. The first British Ambassador presents his credentials to Sheikh Zayed.

December 9: UAE joins the United Nations.

TOURNAMENT INFO

Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier

Jul 3- 14, in the Netherlands
The top two teams will qualify to play at the World T20 in the West Indies in November

UAE squad
Humaira Tasneem (captain), Chamani Seneviratne, Subha Srinivasan, Neha Sharma, Kavisha Kumari, Judit Cleetus, Chaya Mughal, Roopa Nagraj, Heena Hotchandani, Namita D’Souza, Ishani Senevirathne, Esha Oza, Nisha Ali, Udeni Kuruppuarachchi

UPI facts

More than 2.2 million Indian tourists arrived in UAE in 2023
More than 3.5 million Indians reside in UAE
Indian tourists can make purchases in UAE using rupee accounts in India through QR-code-based UPI real-time payment systems
Indian residents in UAE can use their non-resident NRO and NRE accounts held in Indian banks linked to a UAE mobile number for UPI transactions

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How to vote in the UAE

1) Download your ballot https://www.fvap.gov/

2) Take it to the US Embassy

3) Deadline is October 15

4) The embassy will ensure all ballots reach the US in time for the November 3 poll

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Favourite hobby: Football

Breakfast routine: a tall glass of camel milk

Brief scores:

Toss: India, opted to field

Australia 158-4 (17 ov)

Maxwell 46, Lynn 37; Kuldeep 2-24

India 169-7 (17 ov)

Dhawan 76, Karthik 30; Zampa 2-22

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The specs

Price, base / as tested Dh1,100,000 (est)

Engine 5.2-litre V10

Gearbox seven-speed dual clutch

Power 630bhp @ 8,000rpm

Torque 600Nm @ 6,500rpm

Fuel economy, combined 15.7L / 100km (est) 

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While you're here
UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
Dirham Stretcher tips for having a baby in the UAE

Selma Abdelhamid, the group's moderator, offers her guide to guide the cost of having a young family:

• Buy second hand stuff

 They grow so fast. Don't get a second hand car seat though, unless you 100 per cent know it's not expired and hasn't been in an accident.

• Get a health card and vaccinate your child for free at government health centres

 Ms Ma says she discovered this after spending thousands on vaccinations at private clinics.

• Join mum and baby coffee mornings provided by clinics, babysitting companies or nurseries.

Before joining baby classes ask for a free trial session. This way you will know if it's for you or not. You'll be surprised how great some classes are and how bad others are.

• Once baby is ready for solids, cook at home

Take the food with you in reusable pouches or jars. You'll save a fortune and you'll know exactly what you're feeding your child.

The National's picks

4.35pm: Tilal Al Khalediah
5.10pm: Continous
5.45pm: Raging Torrent
6.20pm: West Acre
7pm: Flood Zone
7.40pm: Straight No Chaser
8.15pm: Romantic Warrior
8.50pm: Calandogan
9.30pm: Forever Young

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