Food Security
FAS leads USDA’s efforts to help developing countries improve their agricultural systems and build their trade capacity. We also administer food assistance programs that not only help meet the nutritional needs of recipients around the world, but also support agricultural development and education to ensure long-term food security.
Programs
Food Assistance Programs
Food for Progress
Provides for the donation of U.S. commodities to help developing countries modernize and strengthen their agricultural sectors.
Food Assistance Programs
McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program
Supports projects around the world to reduce hunger and improve literacy and primary education, especially for girls.
Food Assistance Programs
Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement Program
Supports field-based projects that provide development assistance and emergency food relief using locally procured commodities.
Food Assistance Programs
Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust
Funds set in reserve to help the United States respond to emergency food needs worldwide.
Fellowship and Exchange Programs
Borlaug Fellowship Program
The Borlaug Fellowship Program offers mentoring and training to researchers and policymakers from developing countries to help promote food security and economic growth.
Fellowship and Exchange Programs
Cochran Fellowship Program
Established in 1984, The Cochran Fellowship Program provides short-term, U.S.-based training opportunities to agricultural professionals from developing and middle-income countries.
Fellowship and Exchange Programs
Faculty Exchange Program
Provides semester-long U.S. training opportunities to university-level agricultural educators from developing countries.
Currently Accepting Applications
Fellowship and Exchange Programs
International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program
Provides fellowships to U.S. citizens to assist developing countries in establishing school-based agricultural education and youth extension programs.
Fellowship and Exchange Programs
Embassy Science Fellows Program
Places U.S. Government technical experts at American embassies abroad to provide expertise on issues relating to the environment, science, technology and health.
Fellowship and Exchange Programs
Scientific Cooperation Exchange Program
Supports collaboration between teams of scientific and technical experts from the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
Fellowship and Exchange Programs
Scientific Cooperation Research Program
Supports joint research, education, and extension projects between U.S. and international agricultural professionals.
Currently Accepting Applications
Fellowship and Exchange Programs
Scientific Exchanges Program
The Scientific Exchanges Program supports scientific training, collaborative research and mentoring between U.S. scientists and international agricultural professionals.
Currently Accepting Applications
Data and Analysis
International Agricultural Trade Report
The Ukraine Conflict and Other Factors Contributing to High Commodity Prices and Food Insecurity
A number of factors have converged over the last 18 months to send global agricultural commodity prices to near-record levels. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – and the potential loss of Ukrainian exports – was the latest development to push commodity prices higher.
Attaché Report (GAIN)
Angola: Climate - Pests - and Economic Conditions Driving Food Security Crisis in Southern Angola
Angola is facing its most severe drought in the last 40 years, impacting the food security of 1.6 million people in southern Angola, including more than 110,000 children under the age of five who are facing acute malnutrition, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).
Attaché Report (GAIN)
Jordan: Food for Progress Jordan Success Story - Where Harvesting Every Drop of Water Counts
Since fiscal year (FY) 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation...
News and Features
Secretary Vilsack traveled Germany and Poland to engage with world leaders on food security, sustainability, and other key issues.
April 27, 2022
News Release
Biden Administration Announces Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Global Food Aid to Respond to Putin’s Unprovoked Invasion of Ukraine
USDA and USAID intend to draw down entire Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust to respond to global food insecurity
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Scientific Exchanges Program
Jun 27
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