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page seems pretty one-sided

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Modern agriculture developed in the late nineteenth century, when Jews began settling in the land.[2] They purchased land which was mostly semi-arid, although much had been rendered untillable by deforestation, soil erosion and neglect

something tells me the palestines might take issue with isreal boasting how the land was all neglected and ill-kept before the 'israeli's' arrived. this whole page is one big commercial for how israel 'turned desert into farmland'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.127.244.226 (talk) 02:19, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just came across this:

What remains unarticulated is the entanglement of drip irrigation technology with violent land dispossession and the insistence on a futurity characterized by settler (ecological) domination. Even a source as ostensibly neutral as Wikipedia reflects greenwashing discourse. According to the page on agriculture in Israel,
[a]griculture in Israel is a highly developed industry: Israel is a major exporter of fresh produce and a world-leader in agricultural technologies despite the fact that the geography of Israel is not naturally conducive to agriculture. More than half of the land area is desert, and the climate and lack of water resources do not favor farming. Only 20% of the land area is naturally arable. (Wikipedia, 2018)
Once more, Israel’s status as “world-leader” and “major exporter” overcoming nature’s limitations to feed the world works to valorize overproduction. Together, these discourses constitute a form of greenwashing, masking the Israeli state’s foundational and ongoing destruction of communities and land.
(Hughes et al, 2023: Greenwashing in Palestine/Israel. p. 57).

(1) Do we consider this to be correct?
(2) If so: What would it take for the accusations by Hughes et al. to no longer apply? For example, what the IP above wrote seems accurate to me: it's hard to see why we focus in the history section on the group that owned only 3.8% of the cultivated land in 1900 and just under 25% in 1943. Surely, there should be more about Palestinian agriculture here. But what else would be needed? Do the authors perhaps mean the past dispossession of Bedouins in the northwestern Negev? The ongoing dispossession, for example, with the Negev Wine Route? Or the regional planning that left Palestinians in Israel with less farmland than Israeli settlements? Does that belong in an article on Agriculture in Israel? If it doesn’t necessarily belong in this article: Does it not belong there as soon as Wikipedia’s representation is criticized in secondary literature? Happy new year, --DaWalda (talk) 14:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

dunams

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Can we please replace this idiotic measurement with one most people actually know? Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 17:53, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cherry Tomatoes are not Israeli 'invention' from the '70s

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Hi all, people claiming that Israel 'invented' the cherry tomato in the '70s has been a problem on several wiki pages that I've found. My references regarding the history of the cherry tomato have been removed from the article, so I'm just going to post a few here in case someone attempts to assert the 'invention' claim again:

  • F. Smith, Andrew (1994). The tomato in America: early history, culture, and cookery. ISBN 978-1570030000. - Thought to have originated in Chile/Northern Peru
  • http://www.tomatocasual.com/2008/04/10/greece%E2%80%99s-santorini-cherry-tomatoes/ - cherry tomato brought to Greece a couple hundred years ago
  • http://www.santorini.com/restaurants/tomatines.htm, - Santorini cherry tomato was heavily cultivated in Greece in the 1800s
  • http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BXVjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qHkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4590,1543679&dq=cherry-tomato&hl=en - Cherry tomato published in papers long before the '70s.

Regards, --Stvfetterly (talk) 13:18, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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israel food producion

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there's no proof that israel produces 95% of it's food. to my best knowledge it's not even technically possible. the arrable land here is quite small per capita. anyway the reference is empty so i deleted the relevant line — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quatso (talk • contribs) 03:44, 13 July 2012 (UTC) i have checked with faostat and the production is nowhere near the quote. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quatso (talk • contribs) 03:45, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Contradicts main Israel page

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The main page about Israel says that 80% of cereal grains are imported, while this page says that Israel produces 95% of the food used for internal consumption, with a small complement of imports such as cereals. One of them must be either a lie or misleading. 200.108.63.153 (talk) 12:24, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not necessarily. Most of the grain imports are used for animal feed. Smallchief (talk) 16:05, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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