The Center for Research in Agriculture under Climate Change was established with the aim of providing advanced research infrastructure for the advancement of agricultural research, with an emphasis on improving the adaptation of agricultural sectors to expected climate change.

 

The center's infrastructure provides a basis for the main agricultural sectors: field crops, vegetable crops, fruit trees, plant protection and livestock. Among other things, these research infrastructures will serve cultivation studies to find stress-resistant varieties, examining agrotechnics adapted to predicted stress conditions such as changing sowing/planting dates or irrigation schedules, and dealing with pathogens and diseases affected by climate change.

In addition, the infrastructure will be used to study the effects of the environment (soil, precipitation) for better prediction of future agricultural productivity.

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The goals of the center:

• Improving seasonal and multi-year modeling and forecasting capabilities for implementation as a decision support tool for agriculture and agricultural R&D.

• Adapting Israeli agricultural sectors to expected climate change through both cultivation and agrotechnical means.

• Deepening the understanding of resistance mechanisms of plant crops against combined stress (biotic and abiotic)

• Improving pest control capabilities (chemical and biological) in changing climate conditions.

• Understanding epigenetic and molecular control mechanisms of homeostasis in animal species.