Exploring the Future of Food in the Middle East and UAE – Sara Merhi – Learning with Lowell 179

April 25, 2023

Sara Merhi’s mission is to build sustainable food systems for healthy, nutritious and sustainable food for all. She focuses a lot of her time on the middle east in particular. 

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The Learning With Lowell show is a series for the everyday mammal. In this show we’ll learn about leadership, science, and people building their change into the world. The goal is to dig deeply into people who most of us wouldn’t normally ever get to hear. The Host of the show – Lowell Thompson- is a lifelong autodidact, serial problem solver, and founder of startups.

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Sara Merhi links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-merhi/

https://healthypath.ae/

Timestamps / Chapters

00:00 Introducing Sara Merhi

00:22 Where she’s based and pronunciation 

00:53 Sara Merhi’s background

02:50 Middle East net importer of food

03:55 Culture push back for plant based

05:40 Kabob, impossible burger, and testing 

08:40 Cell ag, plant based, policies 

12:03 Ukraine war affect on food in the middle east

14:55 Foods to see in the middle east

17:10 Vertical Farming and climate change

18:38 Oil money diversify 

19:25 Exciting projects

22:35 Children school lunches, plant based

26:55 Malnutrition, obesity 

28:35 Average household eating in the UAE

31:05 Junk food and health effects

35:30 Regulation fair competition, nutritional gaps in UAE

38:45 Universal basic food 

 41:15 Roadblocks for plant based, healthy diet 

46:30 Climate change effects on Middle east and UAE

49:30 Desalination plants

52:15 Food recommendations to check out

55:55 Views on America

59:10 Safety in middle east 

01:00:15 Lebanon food 

01:03:20 Books

01:05:00 Working to learn

01:06:55 Specific skills on sustainability

01:10:25 Advice 

01:12:16 Where she goes to stay up to date

01:13:40 Staying up to date with Sara’s work

01:14:30 Necklace 

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