Scotland’s agritech exports are now shaping food futures in the desert. The Dubai “GigaFarm” is a 200-tower vertical farm set to produce 3,000+ tonnes annually. It showcases the UAE’s appetite for sovereign food systems, while testing whether vertical farming can meaningfully offset import reliance. Globally, vertical farms are still a micro-fraction of agricultural output, but governments from Singapore to Saudi Arabia are betting on scale as climate and geopolitics squeeze