Dixon Irrigation
History of achievements
Our Mission
Enable sustainable food security in water-stressed environments where conventional irrigation fails.
Our Story
Dixon Irrigation was conceived in 2019 to facilitate reforestation in mining areas, with the goal of guaranteeing successful tree sapling growth. We discovered the system worked equally well for vegetable crops – solving the food crisis where 95% of Africa lacks irrigation infrastructure.
Developed and tested in Israel’s Jordan Valley (extreme conditions: 5°C winter to 50°C summer) and across East Africa (2020-2024), we’ve proven our system works in the world’s hardest environments.
Based at Kibbutz Degania – birthplace of modern irrigation – we’re building on that legacy to serve contexts where conventional systems cannot be deployed.
Our Timeline
- 2019-2020: Concept development and initial R&D
- 2020: Proprietary organic treatment developed (UV and anti-bacterial)
- 2021-2022: Field testing in Israel, Jordan Valley, Kenya
- November 2023: Company incorporation
- January 2024: Farms established in Kenya and Zambia
- April 2024: Kenya Ministry of Education authorization
- July 2024: Kenya Central Broadcasting Commission documentary
- July 2024: Zambia drought relief deployment
- October 2024: USAID Sustainable Investment Accelerator membership
- April 2025: Rwanda refugee camp deployment (UNHCR/WFP)
- October 2025: UN endorsement for global refugee camp expansion
Dixon Irrigation achieves 4 objectives: Food security. Nutrition for people as nature intended. Reforestation. High performance ecological natural canvases
Zambia, July 2024. The worst drought in history is now a state of emergency. Dixon Irrigation deployed to establish new farms for food security, nutrition, and to prevent famine. Swiss Chard crops are pictured at 2 weeks. Dixon Irrigation systems are the most reliable and culture-friendly irrigation methods for semi-arid climates.
Dixon Irrigation is food security and climate repair
DI farming systems achieve crops with organic nutrients essential for human health and nutrition.
DI achieves long awaited food security.
DI uses only natural canvas for irrigation and reforestation.
Additional uses are for the dairy industry and external weather awnings.
DI systems mitigate and will reverse greenhouse gases and climate change.
Dixon Irrigation enables our planet to repair itself
DI systems enable farmers to stop using synthetic fertiliser that produces nutrient-deficient crops and malnutrition.
DI systems enable farming without tractor pollution, toxic chemicals and pesticides.
DI systems stop megatons of plastic waste and micro plastics from plastic pipe irrigation that poison land, water supplies and oceans.
DI enriches land and top soil, compared to other methods that extract nutrients and replenish nothing.
7-litre irrigation bag for crops
The DI 7-litre irrigation bag is centrally placed. Crops are planted concentrically in a 1.5 M diameter, 1.77 M2 area, resulting in the highest yield of any irrigation system suitable for semi-arid climates.
DI canvases are natural cotton and flax infused with trade-marked wax and oils.
7-litre irrigation bag for reforestation
The DI 7-litre irrigation bag is attached to a sapling with crops at the base of the tree.
Yield, health, nutrition, ecology
The woven and infused natural canvas is completely eco friendly. Honey bees constantly come to drink from the outside of the canvas. Earthworms oxygenate and thrive in the presence of manure-only enrichment. DI is part of the ecology.
DI canvases are natural.
“Dixon Irrigation’s greatest blessing is the unwavering love and support of the African people in Sub Saharan Africa.”
Dixon Irrigation
