Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA FAS 10619 0762 10 23 0002
The International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program (IAEFP) is a USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) cooperative agreement opportunity designed to place qualified U.S. agricultural professionals in developing countries to help build and strengthen school-based agricultural education and youth extension systems. Working in coordination with well-known U.S. youth development models like 4-H and Future Farmers of America (FFA), the program aims to expand experiential learning in secondary schools while also promoting positive youth development, practical agricultural skill transfer, and long-term program sustainability. The concept is intentionally hands-on: Fellows help bring agriculture to life through classroom instruction paired with field demonstrations, entrepreneurship activities, and leadership development, while also supporting teacher training and community-based extension approaches that can continue after the Fellowship ends. The program was first piloted in Ghana in 2021-2022, and it is positioned as a way to connect U.S. agricultural expertise with growing demand abroad, while also supporting food and fiber system development and strengthening trade relationships between partner countries and the United States.
In this funding cycle, USDA anticipates making up to two awards, with each award expected to support as many as nine Fellows. Countries must be low to middle income as defined by the World Bank, and applications are expected to be country-specific rather than generic proposals. The Fellowship itself is designed to align with the host country secondary school academic calendar and typically lasts 8 to 9 months. Fellows must be U.S. citizens and have at least a bachelor’s degree in an agriculture-related field. While each Fellow is expected to be assigned to a particular site within the country, the program is structured so Fellows operate as a coordinated cohort, sharing planning, learning, and implementation support across sites instead of functioning as isolated placements.
A major emphasis of the solicitation is implementation readiness and risk management, especially around safety and security. Every application must demonstrate that the applicant has assessed security conditions in the proposed country and in the specific regions where Fellows would be placed, and must describe concrete measures that will be used to protect participants. Award recipients are expected to coordinate closely with the USDA/FAS IAEFP team and, as relevant, FAS overseas offices and/or U.S. Embassy personnel on core operational issues such as host-country partnerships, site selection, Fellow placement decisions, and security protocols. USDA also signals expectations around visibility and accountability: recipients are encouraged to maintain a strong social media presence to document activities and are expected to provide regular updates to USDA/FAS in Washington, DC and overseas representatives when requested.
Proposals are expected to demonstrate real host-country buy-in and a practical plan for sustainability. Applications should explain the country’s receptiveness to IAEFP and identify any local policies, procedures, or government requirements that must be incorporated into the work plan for smooth implementation. This includes acknowledging whether the implementing organization must formally register with the host government to operate in-country. If registration is required, applicants must clearly state whether they are already registered or provide a credible plan and timeline for completing registration, and that timeline should be reflected in the overall project schedule. USDA is clearly looking for programs that do more than deliver short-term activities; the intent is to collaborate with host governments and local education and agriculture stakeholders to help build or enhance agricultural education curricula and establish structures such as 4-H-style clubs that can persist beyond the Fellowship period.
USDA also encourages applicants to show how IAEFP would complement and coordinate with other U.S. government agriculture and development programming, including the Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program, the Cochran Fellowship Program, Food for Progress, McGovern-Dole Food for Education, the Local and Regional Procurement Program, and work conducted by Peace Corps, USAID, or other U.S. government partners. Applicants may submit multiple applications for different countries, and each will be considered. At the same time, USDA emphasizes that awards are not guaranteed, that the agency may choose not to fund certain locations due to changing security conditions, and that it may negotiate applications or make selections out of rank order based on strategic priorities such as geographic balance, inclusion of minority-serving institutions, or other documented considerations. Those decisions are final and not appealable.
Operationally, the opportunity is offered as a discretionary cooperative agreement (CFDA 10.619) with an award ceiling of $500,000, and it is administered by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service. The original funding opportunity number is USDA FAS 10619 0762 10 23 0002. The notice makes clear that publication of the opportunity is not a commitment to fund and does not reimburse applicants for proposal preparation costs. Finally, the implementing institution is expected to organize a post-program visit to Washington, DC for Fellows, including a visit to USDA headquarters, meetings facilitated by the FAS Fellowship Programs team, and a structured debrief to USDA/FAS leadership so lessons learned and results from the field can be captured and shared.Apply for USDA FAS 10619 0762 10 23 0002
- The Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program (Cooperative Agreement)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.619.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 08, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 19, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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