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A local farmer harvests hot peppers on a Tikkun Olam Ventures pilot site in Butajira, southern Ethiopia, in June 2018. (Courtesy JDC)

October 11, 2018, 5:13 pm

New fund utilizes Israeli tech to help small farmers in Africa

JDC program will give thousands of agriculturists access to low-interest loans in bid to improve their crop yields, ensure their products command a fair market price

By Melanie Lidman

Author Seth M. Siegel, and his book, 'Let There Be Water.' (Courtesy)

September 7, 2017, 1:15 pm

Author Seth Siegel to discuss how Israel is winning the world’s water wars

Activist and TV personality will be interviewed on Sept. 11 in front of a live audience by Times of Israel’s Miriam Herschlag

By Yaakov Schwartz

A net greenhouse in Los Pinos, Mexico, the largest greenhouse tomato project in the country, developed with Israel's Netafim drip irrigation and greenhouse technology (Courtesy Netafim)

August 7, 2017, 10:52 am

Mexican firm to buy Israel drip irrigation pioneer Netafim for $1.5 billion

Mexichem has signed a deal to buy 80% of Netafim in a deal that values the drip irrigation pioneer at $1.895 billion

By Shoshanna Solomon

June 20, 2017, 9:50 am

Jeevan Vipinachandran

Can Israeli water technology save the world?

Water, the most precious resource in the world, is increasingly scarce; but even as global water shortages threaten the world, Israeli innovation in countering water scarcity could yet lead the world out of the abyss of water shortage and war

A drip irrigated field in southern Israel (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

From the WebJanuary 11, 2017, 3:27 pm

Rivulis Irrigation buys Greek company Eurodrip

Globes: The acquisition of the Greek company makes Rivulis Irrigation, based in Israel’s Kibbutz Gvat, the world’s second largest drip irrigation systems manufacturer; no financial details of the deal were disclosed

Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes (Flickr/Agencia de Noticias ANDES/CC BY-SA 2.0)

July 8, 2016, 5:34 am

Paraguay president to visit Israel seeking expanded ties

With collaboration growing in agriculture and other fields, Asuncion looks to up exports, tech cooperation

By JTA

June 26, 2016, 10:21 pm

Israel to deliver drip irrigation systems to Paraguayan farmers

Plan led by agronomist from Paraguay who graduated from Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation

By JTA

A 2005 file photo from the Ashkelon desalination plant. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

April 28, 2016, 2:13 pm

Israeli water recycling, desalination tech needs work, studies show

Although recognized as a world leader in making every drop count, researchers say Israel should do more research to improve public health

By David Shamah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris on November 30, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

December 1, 2015, 1:39 am

Netanyahu hails Israel’s ‘leading role’ in addressing climate change

In address to Paris summit, PM cites local innovations in solar, agricultural and irrigation technology as examples of combating global crisis

By Tamar Pileggi

From the WebOctober 16, 2015, 6:14 am

Israel exports agricultural know-how to Africa

Voice of America: Drip irrigation, desalination, and water management systems are just some of the Israeli technologies Africans are interested in

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Jewish community leaders in Florence, Italy, on August 28, 2015. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

August 28, 2015, 11:02 pm

PM to Italy’s Jewish leaders: Israeli innovation will defeat BDS

Netanyahu says efforts to isolate Israel will ultimately fail because ‘science and technology are stronger than any boycott’

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech as a security guard stands near him during a visit at the Universal Exhibition 2015 (Expo Milano 2015 or World Exposition 2015) in Milan on August 27, 2015. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)

August 27, 2015, 10:32 pm

Visting Italy, PM says Israel to seek bigger role in African development

Cooperation with Italy on Africa’s agricultural tech tops Netanyahu’s agenda on first major trip since his reelection

By Angus Mackinnon

An aerial view of Alicante, Spain, where a Netafim system recycles wastewater and distributes it via a drip-irrigation system, watering all public areas in the southern Spanish town. (Courtesy Netafim)

June 19, 2015, 2:30 pm

Israel and World Bank sign water tech deal

Together with the international financial institution, Israeli expertise will help countries face growing water challenges

By David Shamah

A NaanDanJain irrigation project (Photo credit: Courtesy)

May 4, 2015, 5:45 pm

Entrepreneur boasts drip system could end world hunger

NaanDanJain’s new rice watering system, says the company’s agronomist, can help farmers save water, take more crop to market

By David Shamah

A faucet and toilets in a classroom at the ecological village in Nitzana, Israel, October 29, 2009. Students there learn about desalination and on how to save water. (photo credit: Chen Leopold/Flash 90)

April 22, 2015, 8:58 am

Recycling toilet waste and four other Israeli answers to California’s drought

As the Golden State dries up, it could learn a lot from desert-ringed but amply-watered Israel

By Ben Sales