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

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Food Assistance

Food for Progress

Provides for the donation of U.S. commodities to help developing countries modernize and strengthen their agricultural sectors.
Currently Accepting Applications
Food Assistance

McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program

Supports projects around the world to reduce hunger and improve literacy and primary education, especially for girls.
Currently Accepting Applications
Food Assistance

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

Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust

Funds set in reserve to help the United States respond to emergency food needs worldwide.
Fellowships and Exchanges

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.
Fellowships and Exchanges

Cochran Fellowship Program

Provides short-term, U.S.-based training opportunities to agricultural professionals from developing and middle-income countries.
Fellowships and Exchanges

Faculty Exchange Program

Provides semester-long U.S. training opportunities to university-level agricultural educators from developing countries.
Currently Accepting Applications
Fellowships and Exchanges

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.
Currently Accepting Applications
Fellowships and Exchanges

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.
Fellowships and Exchanges

Scientific Cooperation Exchange Program

Supports collaboration between teams of scientific and technical experts from the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
Fellowships and Exchanges

Scientific Cooperation Research Program

Supports joint research, education, and extension projects between U.S. and international agricultural professionals.
Currently Accepting Applications
Fellowships and Exchanges

Scientific Exchanges Program

The Scientific Exchanges Program supports scientific training, collaborative research and mentoring between U.S. scientists and international agricultural professionals.

Data and Analysis

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Attaché Report (GAIN)

Brazil: United States and Brazil - Partners in Combatting Climate Change and Food Insecurity

The United States and Brazil are world leaders in agricultural research, and our collaboration over the last several decades has been a cornerstone of the close relationship between our two countries.
Attaché Report (GAIN)

Philippines: Department of Education's School-Based Feeding Program

Malnutrition is still prevalent in the Philippines. Among 12.7 million school-aged children assessed in 2019, 13.2 percent were stunted or wasted. The School-Based Feeding Program is one intervention to address undernutrition of school children.
Attaché Report (GAIN)

Sri Lanka: A Success Story - USDA-FAS McGovern-Dole and Save the Children's PALAM-A Project is Feeding Thousands of School Kids in Sri Lanka

The USDA/FAS McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program is supporting education, child development, and food security in Sri Lanka. The objective of the Sri Lanka McGovern-Dole PALAM/A project is to reduce hunger and improve literacy and primary education, especially for young girls.

News and Features

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March 16, 2023
Stakeholder Notice

USDA McGovern-Dole and Food for Progress FY 2023 Public Meeting Webinar

USDA would like to invite interested parties to attend a public meeting webinar on the McGovern-Dole and Food for Progress Programs’ FY 2023 Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFO).
February 6, 2023
News Release

FAS Expands Exports, Advances Climate Resilience, Strengthens Food Security in 2022

USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service had an exceptional year in 2022, expanding U.S. agricultural trade, ramping up climate change resiliency work, and improving food and nutrition security around the globe.
February 1, 2023
Communications to Congress

Testimony by USDA Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis Taylor to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Testimony by USDA Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis Taylor to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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