Navigating Rough Seas: MENA Charting a Course towards Collaboration.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, rich in culture, history, and resources, is a region of remarkable diversity and complexity. Its geostrategic position has stimulated both conflict and competition among regional powers and global influences, which have often led to destabilization. This intricate nexus of factors has contributed to the region’s unique challenges, making it a distinctive case amid the growing global trend towards interconnectedness and interdependence.
The escalating global interdependence can exacerbate instability for regions like the MENA, which grapples with internal fragmentation while trying to find a path to comprehensive cooperation. The adverse impacts of global issues such as pandemics and conflicts underline how this interconnectedness can have negative consequences. Gleaning from other regions’ experiences, both the positive and negative, is crucial for MENA’s journey towards cooperation.
The lynchpin of a sustainable MENA Geopolitical structure:
Tackling food and water insecurity at the microcosm
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region finds itself at a critical juncture, grappling with food insecurity, water scarcity, and the impacts of climate change. The region’s struggles are most acute at the microcosm level – the individual farmers and herders who form an important sector of society.
1. On this front of the battle against climate change lies an opportunity for regional stakeholders to consider that more efforts directed at this sector shall serve not only as ideal ground where the latest Agritech and hydrotech solutions are further deployed, refined, and spread across the region, but also as a kind of incubator for an entrepreneurial ecosystem where ideas experiments and modules of regional collaboration can be nurtured and developed.