BARD Food Security Technology Accelerator
Funds U.S.-Israel teams developing food-security technologies through a binational accelerator pairing conditional grants of up to $1 million with required industry co-funding.
The BARD Food Security Technology Accelerator is administered by the US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD) to bridge the long gap between laboratory breakthroughs and deployed food-security technologies. It provides conditional grants of up to $1 million for projects with a total budget of up to $1.6 million, over two years of work. Industry partners are required t…
Agricultural mechanics, robotics, and automation systems; production processes for alternative/artificial protein as animal feed; smart, safe, and biodegradable food packaging; computational decision-support models for agricultural systems including digital twins; health-supporting nutrition technology and monitoring.
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