Middle East

Food security is one issue to be addressed by the draft law, as the harsh UAE climate limits local food production

UN sees UAE as food hub

By Noel Ebdon

Despite its low food production the UAE has been named by the UN as a potential regional food hub. But the country needs to adopt some ambitious policies and implement a federal food safety law before this can happen.

Pizza has become global - but cheese making is still difficult in some areas

KMC eyes Middle Eastern promise for imitation cheese ingredients

By Caroline SCOTT-THOMAS

Starch specialist KMC says it has developed two new starches for imitation cheese to cut costs and bring hard cheese alternatives to parts of the world where dairy ingredients may be difficult to handle or source, including the Middle East and North Africa.

The next big food gold rush

Gulfood 2013 blog

The next big food gold rush

By RJ Whitehead in Dubai

Teams from both the European and Asian editions of FoodNavigator are on the ground at Gulfood 2013 in Dubai, a food, processing, packaging and ingredients show which, according to its blurb, claims to be the biggest in the world.