Eight Things You Never Knew About Feeding The Hungry

Nice article from the UN world food program: Eight Things You Never Knew About Feeding The Hungry: Nearer than you think, Yaks on track, Perfect altitude, Build what you need, Almost perfect, Maximum impact, Twenty-four hours, Fast food.

Hope and heartbreak in Haiti

An article from Ynet April 23, about how the Israeli delegation helps kids in orphanages rebuild their lives.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3878294,00.html

Israeli technology and practices for developing countries' farmers

Israeli experts in the field of agriculture gave a seminar on sustainable development of cattle breading within the framework of the joint project UNDP - Mashav - Ministry of Agriculture and Water Management of Uzbekistan. In the end of May leading experts from Israel Ran Solomon, Daniel Werner and Efraim Zuckerman trained a group of Uzbek farmers from Kui-Chirchik district of Tashkent region. The subject of the seminar was cattle rationing, nutrition and forage reserve and its influence on milk productivity. The participants were introduced to modern technologies and innovations in the field of agro chemistry and agronomy. Israeli experts together with representatives of UNDP and the Israeli Embassy in Uzbekistan, visited farms in the Tashkent region and studied fodder growing and implementation of the knowledge attained in training courses in Israel and Uzbekistan in the work of the farmers. During the seminars the experts stressed the importance of a diverse nutritive diet, including barley, triticale, pea and oats to increase productivity of cows. They advised on the proper pressing of silo and bin in order to preserve the correct micro flora. According to the plan of the Joint project on sustainable development of livestock, Israeli experts on design of modern dairy farming and herd books will come to Uzbekistan in order to conduct seminars in June 2009.

The following article was published on 25th of May on the “New Europe” website.
http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94744.php

Julia Bucknall's blog- World Bank- desalination plant in Israel

Further to our previous post (March 15) on the visit of the Word Bank delegation in Israel, essentially focused on water issues and climate change, look at these two very interesting blog posts and videos by Julia Bucknall, World Bank expert, reporting the visit.
http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/blogs/julia-bucknall

FOR THE VIDEO:

http://vimeo.com/10613787