It’s not the desert that’s the enemy
The goal isn’t to fight desertification, it’s to arrest it, says award-winning director of Israel’s Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Prof. Pedro Berliner.
The goal isn’t to fight desertification, it’s to arrest it, says award-winning director of Israel’s Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Prof. Pedro Berliner.
Government and business officials come home from Vietnam with plans for a joint agriculture R&D fund and a free-trade agreement.
Israeli researchers uncover link between drought and the rapid decline of ancient civilizations, using pollen samples from under water.
Israeli Minister of Agriculture Yair Shamir announces new research fund following a meeting in Tokyo.
Shimon Gepstein’s researchers forgot to water their engineered tobacco plants, stumbling upon a huge innovation for a hungry planet.
Delegations from far and wide come to see the Israeli closed-loop cowshed ecosystem devised at the Volcani agricultural research organization.
The pound-plus pepper, raised on brackish water with natural pesticides, was too large to pass through the packing machinery.
2012 was a year of innovation and progress. To celebrate the New Year, ISRAEL21c looks back at the top stories of the year.
‘We happen to be experts in some fields and it’s wonderful to be able to contribute to the process of nation-building,’ says the Israeli ambassador.
Academic agreement will advance collaboration in sciences, humanities, technology and agriculture.
URINFO, a new medical device from Israel inspired by agricultural technology, takes the guesswork out of diagnosing a kidney injury.
Once a barren strip of desert, the Arava now has 600 farms supplying more than 60% of Israel’s exports of fresh vegetables and 10% of ornamentals.
Israel’s Metabolic Robots helps chicken and pig farmers cut the price of expensive grain while improving the animals’ welfare.
An Israeli evolutionary biologist finds hard evidence of global warming in the changes he’s found in wheat and barley plants.
Visitors from 115 countries are expected at Agritech Israel in mid-May. Now in its 18th year, the show is the go-to event for all the latest innovations in the industry.