You Are What You Wheat
An Israeli initiative may be wheat’s best shot at genetic restoration.
Special for Shavuot: Although the Green Revolution brought wheat production to its highest capacity, it slashed wheat’s genetic diversity making it less resilient to climate change stressors. An Israeli initiative may be wheat’s best shot at genetic restoration.
For thousands of years, the Shavuot holiday has marked the season of the grain harvest in the Land of Israel. During the first and second temple period in Jerusalem, special bread made from the harvested wheat was offered as a kind of agricultural tithe to commemorate the occasion, and to this day our fields are still filled with this yellowish and highly sought-after crop.
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“The human being is a tree of the field ” the Bible states. In fact, the Jewish calendar reserves one day each year, the “New Year for Trees” on the 15th of Shevat, for us to contemplate our connection with nature and the environment.
The Issue of Climate Change, Carbon Reduction, Water, Agriculture, and Food is now attracting worldwide attention. We are seeing an increased awareness around the world in the battle for Climate Carbon Mitigation by Governments, NGO’s and Companies to towards at zero-emission policy