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BARD 40 Year Review

12. List of Appendices

Appendix 1: Summarized case studies

Appendix A: Agreement upon the establishment of BARD

Appendix B: Approved budgets by year (1979-2018)

Appendix C: BARD-funded institutions in the US and Israel

Appendix D: Vaadia-BARD postdoctoral fellows

Appendix E: BARD funded workshops 1990-2018

Appendix F: List of all board members since 1979

Appendix G: Evaluation Compendium

13. Abbreviations

USDA-APHIS

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture

USDA-ARS

Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture 

ARO

Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Israel)

BARD 

United States – Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund

BCR

Benefit-Cost Ratio

BGU

Ben Gurion University (Israel)

BIRD

Israel – US Binational Industrial Research and Development

BSF

US – Israel Binational Science Foundation

Committee 

BARD External 40 Year Review Steering Committee 

CPI

Consumer Price Index

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FCR

Feed Conversion Ratio

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

HUJI 

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)

IRR

Internal Rate of Return

LIBOR

The London Inter-bank Offered Rate 

MARD 

Multinational Agricultural R&D

MIF 

Ministry of Finance (Israel)

NIFA USDA

National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative

NPV

Net Present Value

NSF 

National Science Foundation (US)

OECD

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

PI, Co-PI

Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator in BARD Collaborative Research Projects 

RIA/ ARIA

Research Impact Assessment / Agricultural Research Impact Assessment

TAC

BARD’s Technical Advisory Committee

TAU

Tel Aviv University (Israel)

WHO

World Health Organization of the United Nations

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