FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – All University of Arkansas faculty are invited to a Binational Agricultural Research and Development presentation on Wednesday to discuss collaborative efforts to develop grant opportunities addressing agricultural challenges of the future.

The hour-long presentation and discussion is at 10 a.m. Wednesday in conference rooms 413 and 414 of the John W. Tyson Building.

BARD Fund is a competitive funding program for research of agricultural issues conducted jointly by U.S. and Israeli scientists. The U.S.-Isreal BARD Fund and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture signed a memorandum of understanding to promote collaboration between U.S. and Israeli scientists.

Visitors on campus this week for the presentation, and meetings with professors and scientists from the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences and other units are Menahem Hesse, the minister for agriculture and science affairs at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C.; Edo Chalutz, the executive director of the United States-Israel BARD Fund; and Cynthia Edwards, deputy secretary of the Arkansas Agriculture Department.

For 2015, the BARD-NIFA memorandum of understanding has identified priority areas as water for agriculture, a national integrated water quality program, food security, and agricultural and natural resources science for climate variability and change.

All faculty are welcome to attend the presentation, but space is limited.