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Goals, Strategy, and Success Stories |
Goals
Increase selected
countries’
integration
into global agricultural markets
Build the capacity of selected countries’
for a sustainable and competitive
agricultural sector
Increase access for U.S. agricultural
products in selected countries
Increase exports of U.S. agricultural
products to selected countries
Improve the overall perception of the
United States for national security purposes
Accomplishing these goals will help selected
countries overcome current agricultural barriers,
strengthen and protect their agriculture industry,
and ultimately further develop markets for U.S.
trade and food products in the short term and long term.
Strategy
Provide high-quality, individualized training
necessary to:
build a science-based, regulatory
framework in line with international
standards
build domestic and international
agricultural policy frameworks in line with
global obligations
increase the understanding of U.S.
agricultural policies
strengthen current processing and
delivery infrastructures
demonstrate the quality of U.S. products
and technology
Appropriate training will be implemented in
accordance with priorities as defined by FAS
Washington staff in conjunction with Overseas Posts.
Goals
may be accomplished through a wide-range of multiple
trainings which cover different perspectives of an
issue. For example, a Meat Processing
training for private sector officials and a
Meat Inspection training for government
officials may both be used to influence overall
exports of U.S. meat products, as well as enhance
that country's meat processing and inspection
system.
Additionally, one activity may be implemented
that targets multiple objectives. For example,
training in meat inspection for government officials
aims to build a science-based, regulatory
framework as well as to increase access for U.S. meat products
due to increased understanding of U.S. systems.
Performance Indicators for Success
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Adoption and
implementation of international standards
and norms
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Increased
two-way, communication and dissemination of
information between:
a. government and the private sector;
b. processing sectors and producers; and
c. research entities and private sectors.
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Increased
countries’ agricultural productivity and
profits
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Increased
sales of U.S. commodities and products
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Increased
goodwill toward the United States in
general
Highlighted Success Stories
Turkmenistan
A Turkmenistan Fellow
started his own private business in 1998 after the
collapse of the Soviet-era collective state-run
farming system. After attending the Cochran
Fellowship Program on Fruit and Vegetable
Production in 2000, Mr. Mollayev decided to grow
seedlings in greenhouses located on his personal
property and sell them to farmers in his region. He
supplies tomato and cucumber seedlings to the local
market as a seedling grower and exporter for an
international vegetable seed breeding company. After
an initial investment of $5,000 to build the
greenhouses and purchase the necessary equipment,
Mr. Mollayev earns around $10,000 per season through
his seed business and more than $15,000 a year
through his vegetable exports. Now in 2010, Mr.
Mollayev is engaged in vegetable exports. He buys
vegetables from farmers in his region and sells them
to Kazakhstan and Russia.
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