“You have to be assured that if something happens – viruses, security issues, shipping delays – you can produce your own food.”
“There is a big awareness worldwide that climate change will dramatically affect food security and will change agriculture as we know it,” says Michal Levi, chief scientist and senior deputy director general of Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Michal Levi, Chief Scientist & Senior Deputy Director General at the Ministry of Agriculture. Photo by Ethan Van Leeuwen
“We are all looking for sustainable ways to produce food and to find new protein sources, and in Israel there is a lot of innovation and research,” she tells ISRAEL21c.
Already a world leader in alternative protein startups, Israel is now seeking to be a significant player in the new “blue tech” space.
Blue tech includes aquaculture — the science of harvesting protein sources sustainably from water rather than land.
Water, Levi points out, is the largest ecosystem supporting life on our planet.
But aquaculture can be done even in the desert with the right technologies.
That was one of the themes explored at “Agrisrael-Sea the Future,” the first International Conference on Food from the Sea and the Desert, October 18-20 in Eilat, Israel’s southernmost city that sits in the Negev Desert on the shores of the Red Sea.
A panel at the International Conference on Food from the Sea and…
