From drip irrigation to natural pesticides, Israeli innovations are helping to fill hungry bellies everywhere, but particularly in the developing world.
Environment
Revolutionizing chicken feed
Israel’s Metabolic Robots helps chicken and pig farmers cut the price of expensive grain while improving the animals’ welfare.
Warning: The wheat’s too warm
An Israeli evolutionary biologist finds hard evidence of global warming in the changes he’s found in wheat and barley plants.
The super Israeli superabsorbent
Companies on three continents are taking note of a safe, biodegradable Israeli material for everything from diapers to diet pills.
Basil by the tree-ful
Love just-picked basil in Italian dishes? An Israeli company has introduced a long-lasting basil tree for years of fresh herbs on demand.
Semiconductors from human proteins?
It’s weird, but it works: Award-winning Israeli research uses blood, milk and mucus proteins to build next-generation technology.
From potty to paper
An Israeli technology is finding a way to produce clean paper products from every flush of the toilet.
Israel showcases the latest and greatest in agriculture
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.
IBM-Israel brings smarter water tech to California
New partnership is ‘smartening up’ Sonoma County’s water system to help reduce California water usage by 20 percent by 2020.
Israel’s solar-powered tulips
Hooked up together, a “flower garden” of AORA solar energy plants could power entire cities.