NIFA Center for International Programs Spring/Summer 2017 Newsletter

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Spring/Summer 2017

Global Engagement Grant Opportunities

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NIFA's Center for International Programs works with NIFA's four institutes to develop global engagement opportunities in NIFA programs to advance U.S. food and agriculture.  The newly created Grant Opportunities for Global Engagement webpage provides a comprehensive list of Request for Applications (RFAs) and their associated international offerings in a simple format for potential applicants to peruse. These opportunities can help increase the global competitiveness of U.S. university faculty and students, and U.S. agricultural producers; leverage international resources through scientific collaborations; and promote U.S. leadership in global food and agricultural systems.


Six Minute Seminars

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NIFA supports research, education, and extension in the U.S. addressing important issues in agriculture, many of which have global relevance. Through the newly established Six Minute Seminars webpage, learn from faculty, researchers, and extension professionals at U.S. institutions about how their NIFA-supported science is yielding globally relevant approaches, solutions, technologies.

Please check out the first video from the University of the District of Columbia, College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability, and Environmental Sciences.


International Partnership Videos

This image is a screenshot from Iowa State University's Partnership Video.

NIFA's Center for International Programs (CIP) recognizes the benefits to U.S. agriculture from international cooperation. CIP facilitates linkages between NIFA-funded scientists at U.S. institutions with scientists supported by other countries who, as partners, apply their expertise and resources to address problems of mutual concern, helping us to achieve greater impact here at home as well as globally.

On our newly established International Partnership Videos webpage, researchers briefly share what they are doing, why it is important, and what international collaboration is enabling them to achieve. Please check out the first three videos from Cornell University, Iowa State University, and Kansas State University.


Global Engagement Profiles

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In order to better understand and represent the international interests of universities and colleges, NIFA's Center for International Programs (CIP) will soon be sending out our annual invitations to International Ag. Directors at land-grant institutions as well as other interested universities and colleges with agriculture programs to share information with us on their international activities.

The information shared with us will be useful when we connect with colleagues in the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service and the U.S. Agency for International Development who are looking for institutional knowledge of interests and activities. It will also enable us to better look out for and provide information on international opportunities that could be of interest to you. Finally, these global engagement profiles will also enable CIP to identify regions of the world and issues of potential common interest among institutions.


For more information please contact Otto Gonzalez, NIFA Center for International Programs Director, or visit the Center for International Programs webpage.