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Increasing agricultural productivity and sustainable food production is crucial to help alleviate hunger.
KKL-JNF prepares land for agriculture and promotes agricultural research in Israel to ensure quality produce and the livelihoods of farmers; bolsters Israel's water economy through its wastewater and runoff reservoirs for use in agricultural irrigation.
KKL-JNF shares its extensive knowledge in the fields of agriculture, food security, and water management with developing countries and those facing the challenges of semi-arid and arid climates and terrain.
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Supports research in food security for the world: ~100 annual cooperative projects (groves, water, aquaculture, fish farming, animal husbandry, vegetables, and plant conservation) |
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Supports 8 agricultural R&D stations, which develop groundbreaking technologies for farming |
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Shares knowledge and know-how with developing countries: 6: Africa (Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda), and Asia (China, India) |
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Supports the Arava International Center for Agricultural Training (AICAT): students from Cambodia, Cape Verde, East Timor, Figi, Gambia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vanuatu, Vietnam |
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Constructed ~230 wastewater reservoirs, producing ~300 million cubic meters of water per year, constituting ~40% of the total water for irrigating Israel's agriculture, thus saving fresh water |
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Built infrastructure for research center buildings and laboratories: 5 (R&D Central Arava (Hatzeva), Kinneret College, Hula Valley, R&D Southern Arava Renewable Energy Research Center, Gilat Center for Arid & Semi-Arid Agricultural Research) |
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Prepared land for agriculture: ~100,000 hectares (250,000 acres) in ~1,000 communities countrywide |
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Prepared infrastructure for dairy farms: ~190 (mainly in the periphery) |
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Prepared land for olive groves: ~1,756 hectares;4,391 ac, providing livelihoods for farmers (~294 ha;735 ac, northern region; ~1,421 ha; 3,552 ac, central region; ~42 ha;105 ac, southern region) |
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Promotes food security through its projects in African countries: 3
(Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, Rwanda; Seeds of Hope project, Ethiopia; Furrows in the Desert (FID), Turkana, Kenya |
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Manages forest grazing for sheep, goats and cows |
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Makes pollination of agricultural crops possible by providing trees for bee forage |
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Partners in a project to preserve ancestor plant species from all over Israel in a genetic bank |
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| * * The data contained herein is from the field and authoritative KKL-JNF sources. With that, KKL-JNF's ever-evolving projects and activities are difficult to specifically quantify. |
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