ne’ma – the Nationwide Meals Loss and Waste Initiative – introduced its continued collaboration with Style of Abu Dhabi because the pageant’s official Meals Waste Discount Accomplice for the occasion’s 2025 version. The partnership reinforces the initiative’s nationwide mission to scale back meals waste and promote accountable consumption throughout the UAE.
That is the second 12 months in a row that ne’ma can be current at Style of Abu Dhabi, which takes place from 14–16 November 2025 at Gateway Park North, Yas Island. The pageant is anticipated to welcome greater than 19,000 guests. It would showcase a spread of meals experiences, reside demonstrations, and leisure celebrating town’s vibrant meals tradition.
All through the three-day occasion, ne’ma will collaborate with collaborating cooks, eating places, and distributors to successfully handle meals waste. ne’ma will even educate guests on how meals waste happens, offering sensible options that may be simply applied in day-to-day life.
Because the nationwide custodian for combating meals loss and waste, ne’ma is partnering with UAE-based start-up, ReLoop by Ecyclex to compost meals waste and natural supplies generated on the occasion. This nutrient-rich compost will help native farms and divert meals waste from landfill.
ne’ma’s return to Style of Abu Dhabi comes after the launch of the Local weather-Aware UAE Zero Meals Waste Occasion Information in 2024. The information is a sensible, public useful resource that outlines ten actionable steps for occasion organizers to plan, handle, and host food-waste-conscious occasions. Since launch, the information has been utilized throughout main Abu Dhabi occasions in collaboration with companions, together with the Division of Tradition and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, and at business platforms such because the IUCN World Conservation Congress and Al Hosn Competition. The information is obtainable for organizations to entry by way of ne’ma’s web site to help round practices and behavior-based measures that reduce waste at occasions of each dimension.
Khuloud Hasan Al Nuwais, Chief Sustainability Officer of Emirates Basis and ne’ma Steering Committee Secretary-Normal, stated: “Supporting Style of Abu Dhabi for a second 12 months is about consistency, scale, and measurable affect. Massive public occasions can speed up the shift from consciousness to on a regular basis motion, in kitchens, houses, and provide chains. With the Zero Waste Occasions Information now out there to each organizer within the UAE, we’re standardizing round practices, bettering knowledge on meals waste, and alluring companions throughout the ecosystem to assist halve meals waste by 2030. That is how we construct a future the place no meals is wasted.”
By returning to the favored pageant for a second 12 months, ne’ma underscores its dedication to consistency and measurable affect. In 2024, the partnership helped divert 310 kg of meals waste from landfill, prevented 787 kg of CO₂e, and produced 62 kg of compost. The collaboration additionally raised public consciousness on meals waste discount, a basis that the 2025 version goals to strengthen additional by enhanced composting, knowledge assortment, and customer engagement.
Victoria Burn, Occasion Director, Style of Abu Dhabi stated, “We’re proud to welcome ne’ma again as our Meals Waste Discount Accomplice. Style occasions are about distinctive experiences, and that features doing issues responsibly. With ne’ma’s steerage, we’re elevating the bar on how main festivals function: higher sorting, smarter menus, meals rescue, and clear reporting. It’s good for our friends, good for our companions, and good for Abu Dhabi.”
By efficient advocacy, partnerships, and neighborhood outreach, ne’ma continues to drive a nationwide motion that values meals as a useful resource. This aligns with the UAE Meals Safety Technique 2051 and Sustainable Improvement Purpose 12.3, aiming to remodel the UAE right into a nation the place no meals is wasted.