Niger - Women in the Tanka village are using low-pressure drip-irrigation systems to grow okra, tomatoes, eggplant and other vegetables.
South Africa - The Israeli Embassy has worked with Ikamba Labantu, a local NGO, to introduce TIPA, Techno-Agriculture Innovation for Poverty Alleviation, in the Eastern Cape, one of the country’s poorest provinces. This system enables farmers, who were otherwise at the mercy of the region’s erratic rainfall, to plant crops four times a year, leading to a 400% increase in output.
Senegal - The embassy is collaborating with World Vision and Green Senegal, two NGOs that have worked with Senegalese Water Services to introduce TIPA in communities in the area of Bembay and Thies.
Meghalaya, India - Israeli Agron Agri Projects has helped local farmers to store rainwater, prevent the pollution of water sources and assist reforestation after the monsoon season in the Cherrapunjee region of Meghalaya state
Andhra Pradesh, India - Netafim pioneered the first drip irrigation system in 1965 and is now the world’s largest micro-irrigation company. In Andhra Pradesh – the “Rice Bowl of India” – Netafim helped promote irrigation scheduling, fertigation and crop protection.
Yangtze, China - Netafim has introduced state-of-the-art greenhouse systems and drip irrigation systems throughout the country. Israeli drip irrigation technology is used in large government-funded projects to fight desertification, preserve topsoil and to encourage forestation. Israeli design and technology has been used to irrigate land for 1.2 million people relocated as a result of the Three Gorges Hydro-Electric Project on the Yangtze River.
Tianjin, China - Since 1994, Israel's IDE Technologies Ltd has built 22 thermal desalination facilities in India, with a total capacity of 270,000 cubic meters/day. In China, IDE built the country’s largest thermal desalination plant at Tianjin with an ultimate capacity of 400,000 cubic meters/day, powered by the waste heat from an adjacent power plant.
Ethiopia - "Mashav" – Israel's international development cooperation program—sponsored drip irrigation programs.
Nigeria - The Galilee International Management Institute has opened its doors to ex-militants from Nigeria. Twenty-three arrived recently for a one-month training course as a group of 30 were heading back home, taking with them Israeli farming and agricultural expertise. The training included hands-on experience working the land, but also courses on basic farm management and business skills.
Pusa, India - MASHAV's agricultural programming deals with the introduction of modern technologies and agro-technical methods designed to increase the levels, sustainability and quality of agricultural production to ensure food security.
Stockholm, Sweden - A highly innovative and entrepreneurial country, Sweden still has trouble with establishing it Start-ups the way Israel is successful. Leading Israeli venture capitalist Erel Margalit continues to help Sweden develop this startup industry.
Mojave Desert, California - An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale electricity generating plant, solar-powered and fully functional, in southern California's Mojave Desert.
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Within 48 hours of the quake, two El Al cargo jets, a Boeing 777 and a Boeing 747, touched down at Port-au-Prince's international airport. They were filled with 250 doctors and nurses, food, water, tents, medical equipment and essential supplies.
Indonesia - The Israeli people have opened their hearts to the survivors of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, and from government agencies to school children, the country is making a significant contribution to the international relief effort.
Sri Lanka - The Israeli people have opened their hearts to the survivors of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, and from government agencies to school children, the country is making a significant contribution to the international relief effort.
Pakistan - Israeli designed GrainPro Cocoons provide a surprisingly simple and cheap way for African and Asian farmers to keep their grain market-fresh. The huge bags, invented by international food technology consultant Prof. Shlomo Navarro, keep both water and air out. They’re used all over the developed world, including Africa and the Far East, and even in countries that have no diplomatic ties to Israel, such as Pakistan.
China - Israel’s Seambiotic clean-tech company recently launched a commercial algae farm in China and does business in the United States and Italy as well. People don’t eat algae, but algae ponds nourished by power-plant effluent conserve farmed produce for human consumption because they generate 30 times more feedstock for biofuel than do land-based crop alternatives. Plus, the tiny plants, which thrive on carbon dioxide and sunlight, produce a valuable nutraceutical food additive that is especially popular in the Far East.
Uganda - Half a century ago, Lake Victoria carp was a significant part of the diet of the nearby Ugandan villagers. But when Nile perch was introduced to the lake, it decimated most of the smaller fish including the carp. Villagers had neither the equipment nor the expertise necessary to start fishing the huge perch, and symptoms of protein deficiency started becoming apparent in their children. Prof. Berta Sivan of Hebrew University came to the rescue with a multiyear project near to help these African families. Her team was able to apply techniques developed over many years for Israeli fish farmers. The Israeli project not only successfully spawned carp on Ugandan fish farms, but also provided training on how to dig and fill ponds and raise the small fish. Now local children have an abundant supply of protein to eat with their fruit and vegetables.
La Guajira, Colombia - They said it couldn't be done, but a group of Israeli agricultural experts have succeeded in helping local Colombian farmers grow potatoes in a harsh desert environment.
Poland opened the largest Europe-based fish farm, taking advantage of Israel’s high-tech methods that allow farmers to generate a larger amount of fish. Since tilapia tend to eat weeds, algae, and other underwater plants, growing them can also help keep rivers, lakes and even municipal water supplies clean.
An Israeli-based mobile asset management technology company has chosen Winnipeg for the head office of its North America division. Traffilog, which allows transportation fleet operators to find ways to be more efficient through technology called telematics, currently boasts over 100,000 installations throughout 27 countries. “We’re full of enthusiasm for the opportunity to contribute to the Manitoba corporate community by creating employment and through our commitment to sound and successful business practices,” said Traffilog’s Michel Aziza in a press release.
Surveillance cameras were not enough to catch the Boston Marathon terrorists. The Israeli-based BriefCam firm “collapsed” an hour of video and focused on suspicious objects – and people, helping identify the Boston Marathon terrorists
Ben Gurion University (BGU) in Israel and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) in the US have launched a joint project to develop medical devices for children, including a smart sensing catheter, a surfactant delivery device and an image-guided needle insertion device.
Israel’s Alvarion will be installing fast wireless broadband service for the use of residents and workers of the North Slope of Alaska, one of the remotest and harshest places on earth
Although Iraq is defined as an ‘enemy state’ to Israel, the Knesset approved the entry of three children for life-saving heart surgery
Israel’s Dip-Tech has perfected a unique digital glass printing system that is being used to create extraordinary displays for the Harlem Hospital in Manhattan
A new $13 million visual intercom system in Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town, the largest in the world, connects 8,760 apartments through 178 entrances in 89 towers to each other, with a central command system, security and fire-alarm lines, and was delivered from Israel by way of Japan
The Israeli desalination giant that is already responsible for the brunt of Israel’s salty-to-fresh water transformation is now designing a 204,412-cubic-meter seawater desalination plant for the San Diego region, in the biggest desalination project to hit the western hemisphere
Israeli startup Tawkon is now launching an app intended for the Japanese market, as it believes the Japanese are particularly sensitive to issues related to radiation. Tawkon’s app uses real-time information gathered by a smartphone to alert users when radiation levels are high, and also to identify radiation “hotspots”in their immediate area
A delegation from Ben Gurion University in Israel, led by Professor Ariel Novoplansky, has toured the Galapagos Islands–an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the Equator in the Pacific Ocean-and signed a cooperation agreement with the local Directorate of the National Park to promote the conservation of the endangered biological diversity of the islands