Green Prophet

Last Friday, World Vision and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) celebrated the achievements of a three year project that has helped hundreds of Lebanese farmers grow organic agriculture in Lebanon.  The project - called the Sustainable Agri-Business Initiative for Lebanon Project - directly helped 800 farmers and over 4500 people in total.
USAID [...]

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Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a bee virus leading to the widespread deaths of worker bees, has long signified a threat to agricultural industries.
It’s not the honey that’s important in agriculture–it’s pollination, and therefore the effects of CCD on this process can be devastating.
But now Israeli company Beeologics has discovered a cure for CCD, which has [...]

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A new solution addresses the problem of water loss and promises farmers “more crop per drop”
A part of the global food crisis is the inefficiency of current irrigation methods. More irrigated water evaporates than reaches the roots of crops, amounting to an enormous waste of water and energy.
Tel Aviv University researchers, however, are investigating a [...]

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Leaders from Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority concluding talks in Tokyo yesterday with the announcement that they plan to start building an agro-industrial park in the Palestinian Territories by next year.
The agro-industrial park could provide jobs for up to 6,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. According to Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura, the [...]

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As part of our mission to foresee a green, environmentally-sound future for Israel, its neighbors and the world, we’ll be occasionally featuring blogs from the regional blogosphere that also care about all things green, especially those in Arab countries where green issues are relatively undeveloped.
Last week we featured environmental blogs from Lebanon and Jordan, and [...]

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