David Yalin Ph.D.

Though I grew up into the urban environment, agriculture has become my passion.
After completing my PhD in soil chemistry and a postdoc studying the fate of soil organic matter in forests I have started my own lab in the Volcani Institute.
My overarching goal is to reduce the negative impact of agriculture on the environmnet and specifically on the topic of fertilizer use.
I see two major pathways to reaching this goal:
1) Increasing the use of organic waste materials (manures, biosolids, urban solid wastes, treated wastewater, and more….)
2) Utilizing nature based solutions to increase the soil nutrient availability and plant uptake (using  probiotic bacteria, adapted crops, utility crops, mulching and more…)
The years of agricultural studies have matured in me a deep appreciation of how difficult it is to be a farmer, and I feel great dedication to help farmers find efficient strategies towards more productive and sustainable agriculture.