Agriculture, nature conservation, food security
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- April 10, 2024
Millions of tons of food are thrown away in Israel every year, which affects food security - especially in times of crisis such as war. So how do you create nutritional resilience? Stop wasting food
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- September 10, 2023
The cooperative economy tries to provide an answer to the loss of food
- Bar-Ilan University
- April 24, 2023
The system from the tenth century AD, in the Islamic period is the first significant development of agriculture in the sand in human history
- The science service
- March 12, 2023
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- Haifa University
- February 23, 2023
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A new international study conducted at the University of Haifa and the University of California (Davis) found for the first time genes that confer resistance to drought conditions in bread wheat. "The discovery is of great importance that will allow the cultivation of wheat in extensive climatic conditions," said Dr. Gilad Gabai, the lead author of the article published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications
- Avi Blizovsky
- December 24, 2022
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This is the budget that will be given in a joint grant track between the Innovation Authority and the BARD Foundation, the binational fund for agricultural research and development of the USA and Israel, and the American National Institute of Food and Agriculture NIFA-USDA in the USA
- Avi Blizovsky
- November 8, 2022
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Alternative egg proteins without chickens, testing the shelf life of agricultural produce to reduce waste, new materials for plant protection in agriculture, the use of mushroom mycelium as a meat substitute in food products and more - agri and foodtech companies from the Miguel Research Institute presented at the Israeli Agri-Foodtech Week
- Tel Aviv University
- September 1, 2022
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Seas and Lakes Research Institute in Haifa have developed a state-of-the-art technology that enables the growth of "enriched algae" in the nutrients, proteins, dietary fibers, and minerals for human and animal needs.
- The science service
- August 2, 2022
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The collaboration between PROPELLER DRONES and the Farming Workers' Organization will allow field crop growers in Israel to be at the forefront of international trends in the field of sustainable and precision agriculture.
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- June 21, 2022
Researchers from the Technion are developing an unusual solution to the problem of the lack of picking hands in agriculture: robots that use small drones, which create a computerized image of the trees, to carry out agricultural operations in fruit orchards
- Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
- November 28, 2021
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Dr. Assaf Rosenthal was the director of the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve for a decade during its declaration as a reserve. At an event held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the reserve, Dr. Rosenthal warned that today there is no limit to the number of visitors and that water no longer flows in the spring of Ein Gedi
- Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
- October 24, 2021
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Ahead of the various conferences on climate issues and the preservation of biological diversity, it turns out that trade in species from the wild is one of the main causes of extinction and severe damage to the natural environment and living systems. This must be stopped in any way possible
- Tel Aviv University
- April 6, 2021
This figure began to change in the Stone Age * Evidence of genetic changes and the appearance of unique stone tools for processing plants led the researchers to the conclusion that starting about 85 thousand years ago in Africa, and starting about 40 thousand years ago in Europe and Asia, there was a gradual increase in the consumption of plant food and a greater variety of the diet
- Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
- March 13, 2021
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Throughout the XNUMXth century there was a huge increase in agricultural produce mainly following the "Green Revolution" which fulfilled promises and increased food production and nutritional security. At least in large parts of the world. At the same time, the agricultural revolution exacted a high price from the ball. Now is the time to change the attitude