The "Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Food Security in Desert" supports researchers dedicated to food and water security in drylands with a yearly budget.
Research Support
Food Security MERIT Award 2022 Receipts
| Researcher Name | Researcher Name | Research Title |
| Mohammad Bashouti | Moshe Herzberg | Heavy metals: Rapid monitoring in water and sediments |
| Aaron Fait | Tarin Paz-Kagan | Innovative non-intrusive monitoring tool for EArly spotting of metabolic SYndrome in crops "EASY-Grape" |
| Nina Kamennaya | | Make phosphate available to plants to improve crop |
| Dilia Kool | Nurit Agam | Atmospheric water harvesting – opportunities in deserts |
| Avi Niv | Naftali Lazarovitch | TRANSIENT: optimal indoor farming usng guided sunlight |
