Sudan could be one of the world’s great breadbaskets
Ailafoun Dairy Farm, owned by Sudan’s Dal Group and the country’s largest such facility, has in the past brought in foreign cows to increase production. 2 April 2019. Bloomberg Businessweek. Arab policymakers have been touting Sudan’s ability to feed the populous and water-scarce Middle East since the 1970s. The country features as much as 200 million acres of arable land, a strategic location less than a day’s sail across the Red Sea to the Saudi port of Jeddah, and a roughly 25 percent share of the Nile’s waters under regional agreements, much of it unused. In the Middle East and North Africa, by contrast, World Bank and United Nations statistics show that the number of chronically undernourished people has doubled, to 33 million, since 1990 , and that water availability has tumbled on average to a sixth of the global mean. Abdellatif, chairman of Dal Group, beside a statue of Taharqa, a Nubian king, in the lobby of his office in Khartoum . The benefits for both parties wou...