Assistance program
Cochran Fellowship Program
$17.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Foreign Agricultural Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants;Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 10.962
- What it does
- Awards will enhance knowledge and skills to assist eligible countries to develop agricultural systems (which may include agricultural extension services) necessary to meet the food and fiber needs of their domestic populations; and strengthen and enhance trade linkages between eligible countries and agricultural interests in the United States or between agricultural interests in the United States and regulatory systems governing sanitary and phytosanitary standards for agricultural products that may enter the United States and may pose risks to human, animal, or plant life or health.
- Who benefits
- Fellows are selected from the public and private sectors in eligible countries. In general, fellows are identified by USDA/FAS prior to award.
- Who applies
- State Cooperative Institutions, Colleges and Universities, Private voluntary organizations, Nonprofit agricultural organizations or cooperatives, Nongovernmental organizations, or other private entities, which are registered, headquartered, and based in the United States. n.b. Individual Notices of Funding Opportunity may be made available to a subset of these organizations.
- Authorized by
- Agriculture Development and Trade Act of 1990, as amended
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.
Direct payments
$461.3K
3%
Grants
$2.4M
14%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments