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Abdul Latif Jameel Water & Food Systems Lab

Fueling research, innovation, and collaboration to solve urgent global water and food systems challenges

Celebrating 10 Years of Impact

Our Impact Areas

Highlights and Impacts

Publication

J-WAFS researchers use computer vision to augment fish monitoring

Event

Barrio de Paz, La Pista: where land has no owner

Project

The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability

Event

J-WAFS celebrates ten years of water and food research at a special anniversary event

News

J-WAFS celebrates a decade of launching real-world solutions for global water and food challenges

Commentary

Reflections on 10 years of J-WAFS research impact

Latest News

MIT engineers find plants can sense the sound of rain

Experiments by MIT researchers have found that the sound of raindrops rouses seeds from a dormant state and stimulates their growth.

J-WAFS spinout raises $36 million to enter refining and chemicals sector

Via Separations raised money from Aramco Ventures and other investors to deploy their modular filtration system that has seen commercial…

MIT researchers advance the global aquaculture market

J-WAFS PIs Kripa Varanasi and T. Alan Hatton have developed a method of removing carbon from the ocean using electricity to reverse the…

J-WAFS PI argues governments should pave the way for urban farming

In an op-ed in the Boston Globe, Kate Brown argues that municipal governments should clear the way for residents to grow vegetable gardens…