Food Concerns
Gulf oil producers have abandoned nationalistic policies of achieving food self-sufficiency and switched to a more realistic approach of using their financial muscle to invest in farm projects in fertile countries.

Tide of change
Every day at dusk, a flotilla of dhows sails past the skyscrapers of Bahrain Financial Harbour, negotiating a passage through the narrow, man-made marina out to the waters of Gulf. These traditional vessels are one of the few remaining links to an industry that once sustained an entire island nation.