A plan to grow proteins in the desert

“Sweltering,” “oppressive” and “arid” don’t sound like the climate ingredients for a thriving agfood business, but Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, is making its pitch as a tailor-made location for alternative protein production.

“Given that there is not a lot of arable land and it doesn’t rain a lot, we look at things that can be produced inside a plant, that are capital-intensive, energy-intensive and that can be exported,” Alessandro Borgogna…