Farmers in arid areas of India need no convincing that the climate is changing under their feet. Their income is drying up along with their groundwater wells, forcing many to give up farming.

As these kinds of situations become more common, help is coming from Tel Aviv University’s Nitsan Sustainable Development Lab directed by Ram Fishman, an expert on smallholder farmers and climate change.

His team assesses agriculture, water and energy problems in rural Asia and Africa and finds Israeli technologies to solve them.