Gulf cooperation<\/p>\n
Apart from investing abroad to secure access to major food production bases, gulf states have also been constructing modern silos capable of storing hundreds of thousands of tons of strategic grains in the past two decades. These silos offer a buffer for staples that can be stored for months like wheat, rice and edible oils.<\/p>\n
The UAE opened its Fujairah grain silos in 2016 on the Indian Ocean coast outside the Strait of Hormuz, with roughly 300,000-tonne capacity. The location was chosen strategically to bypass Hormuz with Iran having already threatened to close the strait whenever tensions rose with the West.<\/p>\n
“Fujairah’s grain silos act as a strategically important pressure valve providing routing flexibility and risk diversification when the gulf’s maritime environment tightens,” said Sudhakar Tomar, President of India Middle East Agri Alliance Ecosystem.<\/p>\n
The initiative originally envisioned emergency stocks to be shared by the entire gulf region. But practical obstacles, including long distances and limited road or rail links between countries, meant it stayed domestic. Other gulf states have since built their own storage, including Qatar’s Food Security Terminal at Hamad Port with 51 climate-controlled silos.<\/p>\n
Regional cooperation among Gulf Cooperation Council members will be critical to averting food shortages, but the six-nation bloc has long struggled with coordination.<\/p>\n
“It will require close cooperation amongst GCC states to manage complex logistics and ensure that all six states and Iraq are sated,” Quilliam said.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Sarah El Safty and Maha El Dahan; Additional Reporting Andrew Mills and May Angel, Editing by William Maclean)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gulf cooperation Apart from investing abroad to secure access to major food production bases, gulf states have also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[270,34,35,1738,1739,39,3514,3515,3513,271,50,101,272],"class_list":{"0":"post-5045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-bahrain","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-kuwait","11":"tag-mena","12":"tag-middle-east-conflicts","13":"tag-persian-gulf","14":"tag-port-of-fujairah","15":"tag-port-of-hamad","16":"tag-port-of-khor-fakkan","17":"tag-qatar","18":"tag-saudi-arabia","19":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","20":"tag-united-arab-emirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116177023956981291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}