Assistance program
Scientific Exchanges Program
$4.2 Million committed in FY2021–FY2026
- Agency
- Foreign Agricultural Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.620
- What it does
- The Scientific Exchange Program promotes trade, trade policy, trade capacity building, and food security. The program aims to educate a new generation of agricultural scientists in emerging market countries, increase scientific knowledge and collaborative research, and extend knowledge to users and intermediaries in the international agricultural marketplace. The intention is to improve the scientific capacity in targeted emerging market countries in specific fields, such as fertilizer use, women in agriculture, or other topics in the agricultural sciences.
- Who benefits
- Fellows must hold a minimum of a Master’s-level degree, be in the early or middle stage of their career, and represent a university, government agency or research entity in a low or middle-income country.
- Who applies
- State cooperative institutions or other colleges and universities in the United States, as defined by 7 USC 3103
- Authorized by
- 7 U.S.C. § 3291
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$887.8K
21%
Other
$3.3M
79%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
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