BARD US-Israel Binational Agricultural R&D

BARD US-Israel Binational Agricultural R&D sits under the USDA and the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture as a joint agricultural innovation program. It supports annual U.S.-Israeli collaboration in agriculture and agbiotech. Awards are royalty-backed and range from $150,000 to $400,000, with a median actual award of $275,000. Applicants must be for-profit U.S.-Israeli research teams or companies, work at TRL 3 to 6, and operate in agriculture or agbiotech. There is no matching-fund requirement, but the same project cannot stack with another BARD award, so the program stays tightly tied to the specific proposal on the table and to work that can be carried forward by both partners. The program is a strong fit for applied R&D that can move from experimental work toward field use or commercial deployment. Teams tend to do best when the collaboration is genuinely binational and the technical plan is specific enough to justify a modest, milestone-driven award.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.