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Israel is a leder in Dairy production. The Arbel Company, a manufacturer of dairy products, offers innovative solutions in the field of food processing machines. In this video, learn about Arbel's efficient and cost-effective method of dairy production. See how this company has spread its knowledge across the globe. Arbel's dairy production is of the highest quality but the company continues to develop new technologies and improve existing systems.
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A warrior in the struggle against desertification, Prof. Alon Tal knows how Israel can contribute in many spheres of global environmental work. "Desertification is an issue which remains an orphan in the international field," explains the professor, who was interviewed at the four-day international conference entitled "Drylands, Deserts, and Desertification -- the Route to Restoration," held at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in November. The trouble with desertification, he explains, is that it tends to be perceived as an African problem, even though wealthy nations like the US and Italy, and Israel too, have historically had problems with it. He describes the BGU desertification conference, which has been held three times in Israel, as a "rare expression of solidarity for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide whose lives are affected by desertification," which leads to famine, refugees and cultural turbulence. As for Israel's potential role in global environmental work, Tal says that precisely because Israel is such a small country, it's like a fast-forward for the world: "What Israel's doing in terms of desalination or wastewater re-use "are things that the whole world is going to be doing, sooner or later," he says.
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Agriculture is one of Israel's most impressive pillar industries. Israeli agricultural organizations have distinctive features. There are three forms, namely the publicly-owned collective farm (the kibbutz), the collective cooperative (the moshav) and the privately-owned rural household (the moshava). The land, owned by the state, is leased out by the government to the agricultural organizations to carry out agricultural production, and provides necessary support. Many Jews started out at these agricultural organizations. After decades of painstaking efforts, they enjoyed great success. What are kibbutzes and moshavs like today? What do people living there think about?
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Join Dr. Yonathan Zohar, Director as he takes us on a tour of the University of Maryland Center of Marine Biotechnology (COMB) in Baltimore, MD. Scientists at COMB are working on ways to create new, advanced, and more sustainable aquaculture systems in hopes of decreasing the burden overfishing has put on our fragile ocean systems.
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The pomegranate fruit is high in antioxidants that are said to combat a range of health problems ranging from diabetes, to cardiovascular diseases and even cancer. Now an Israeli winery in the northern Galilee is producing wine made exclusively from pomegranates.
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Israel is the world's highest milk producer per cow despite extreme temperatures in the country and its desert land. This has been achieved through extensive research and investment in the sector which has ensured that its citizens never have to depend on food imports. A group of 12 Kenyan farmers under the support of the Pamoja Women Development Programme just returned from Israel and hope to use lessons learnt to improve their farming.
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Professor David Levy has for over 20 years been breeding special strains of the potato that are suitable to the hot dry climates of the Middle East.
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A program in Vietnam is teaching women who live on farms how to implement irrigation systems. Participation in the Water Users Organizations, which is all organized by the World Bank’s Vietnam Water Resources Assistance Project, helps poor women farmers not only find work and establish themselves as integral parts of the community’s economy, but also provides better crop yields for their families.
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