ABSTRACT
Project Wadi Attir is a ground-breaking initiative with the Bedouin community in the Negev desert, and demonstrates an approach to sustainable dry land agriculture that leverages Bedouin traditional values, know-how and experience with modern-day science and cutting edge technologies. Project Wadi Attir is designed to innovate in five key dimensions, reflecting The Lab’s five core sustainability principles, and related to the Material, Economic, Life, Social and Spiritual domains. These include: the material domain; the social domain; the economic domain; the domain of life; and the spiritual domain. The integration of all these domains into a single vision and one comprehensive design is a key distinguishing factor in The Lab’s whole systems approach to development. These innovations are expressed through the project’s many functions and initiatives. These functions and initiatives are: herding and dairy initiative; medicinal plants initiative; indigenous vegetables initiative; ecosystem restoration initiative; integrated infrastructure of green technologies; and the visitor, training and education center.
