UAE incubator prepares startups led by women to confront desert

Dana venture platform backs a Moroccan vertical farmer, Israeli herbal pesticide maker and Gaza solar energy company from its headquarters in Abu Dhabi

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — When Ghita Bahmad, a Moroccan-born researcher working on innovative ways to grow fruits and vegetables in the desert, needed to raise funds for her vertical-farming startup last year, she went to the Dubai...

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