Model Farm People
In the Model Farm for Sustainable Agriculture, research scientists from various fields collaborate under the scientific leadership of Dr. Yael Laor.
Altogether, approximately 50 members, most of them researchers from the three campuses of the Agricultural Research Organization (the central campus at the Volcani Center, the northern campus at Newe Ya’ar, and the southern campus at Gilat), and others from the Ministry of Agriculture (Soil Erosion Research Station and the Agroecology Division), Local Research & Development Councils from around the country, colleges, research institutes and universities including the Northern Agriculture Research & Development, MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute, Tel Hai College, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa University, the Technion and Ben Gurion University of the Negev. One of the major challenges of the project being the integration of scientific approaches and activities among the various disciplines.