Land of milk and money: Qatar looks to farms to beat the Gulf boycott

Emirate's drive for food security is symbolic of its determination to make efforts to isolate it 'a blessing inside a calamity'

John Dore is off to Doha's vast and luxurious Hamad International airport to greet the 8pm flight from Los Angeles via Liige, Belgium.

Wearing a straw hat with a small metal shamrock badge in homage to his Irish roots, his imminent visitors are neither family nor friends. Nor are they human at all, but rather a herd of 120 cows.