Agriculture and Food Security Projects

Current Projects

Center for Coffee Research and Education

| COSTA RICA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PANAMA, PERU, GLOBAL

Center for Coffee Research and Education

The livelihoods of coffee farmers, and those along the coffee supply chain, are presently threatened by climate change, diseases and pests, low crop yields, and barriers to quality.

International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program (IAEFP)

| Ghana, Guatemala

International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program (IAEFP)

The International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program (IAEFP) is founded in partnership with AgriCorps, and hosted at the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture. IAEFP is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS).

Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Policy Framework for Africa

| African Union

Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Policy Framework for Africa

The Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Policy Framework for Africa project supports the African Union (AU) Commission’s Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy, and Sustainable Environment (AUC-DARBE) to advance international Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards (SPS) measures within AU Member States and Regional Economic Communities (RECs).

| Global

Food for Progress Monitoring and Evaluation for Sustainability

The project brings expertise from Texas A&M University to bear on the evaluation of issues in the USDA’s Learning Agenda for Food for Progress projects, structured analysis of secondary data, and econometric analysis, in addition to high-quality systematic reviews of priority topics.

International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program (IAEFP) – Guatemala

| Guatemala

International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program (IAEFP) – Guatemala

IAEFP trains and supports Fellows to become teachers abroad during the Guatemalan school year to work in agriculture and with students in their communities.