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American Friends of The Hebrew University presents "Feeding the Future," narrated by Bill Crystal. See how the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Food, Agriculture and Environment is working to preserve natural resources, boost global food supplies, fight disease and reach out to developing nations.
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An Israeli innovation for raising seafood anywhere -- including the desert - could be the answer to the world's growing problem of over fishing and water shortages. "Our technology is totally independent of the sea," says Dr. Yossi Tal of Israel's Grow Fish Anywhere, a company that invented a way to raise fish commercially under any kind of conditions. "We are establishing our own unique ecology in our system to sustain the fish, without discharging any pollution." GFA's solution could signal a breakthrough as the world's fishing industry faces the effects of over fishing, as well as chronic water shortages.
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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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CNN Worldview has broadcast an ISRAEL21c story about Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmentalists who are challenging a World Bank administered plan to revive the dying Dead Sea by linking it to the Red Sea.
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Lake Victoria in Uganda used to have a large population of fish that the local population could fish easily. After a large fish from the Nile River was introduced in Lake Victoria, these smaller fish disappeared and many families lost their only protein source. Now, Israeli Professor Berta Sivan of Hebrew University has reintroduced these “carp” into the Ugandan environment by placing them in small lakes miles from Lake Victoria. She is now teaching the locals how to fish and maintain the carp.
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An Israeli scientist has found a new way to farm fish in urban environments. This method is environmentally friendly and very beneficial given the rapid depletion of fish sources in our oceans due to over-fishing. Hopefully, this research can reverse this damaging trend of fish depletion by providing another form of fish farming that can be achieved in urban settings and on land. Professor Yonatan Zohar has developed this revolutionary method in which the fish farm is large enough to hold and allow for a healthy environment for the fish but small enough to fit in urban settings such as warehouses. Click here to read the article that accompanies this video.
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