The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Faculty Exchange Program (FEP), managed by the Foreign Agricultural
Service, International Cooperation and Development, Food Industries
Division, Professional Development Program (FAS/ICD/FID/PDP), was
created in 1994 to bring qualified agricultural educators from
progressive agricultural institutions of higher learning in Eurasia to
the United States for 5 months to increase their knowledge of, and
ability to teach, agricultural economics and marketing, agribusiness,
and agrarian law in a market-based economy.
The goal of the program is to promote the development of
sound agricultural policy and effective and competitive agricultural
marketing and business systems in Eurasia. The objectives of the
Faculty Exchange Program are to:
- Increase the number of adults in Eurasia who
understand the market economy by improving the quantity and quality of
academic and adult education programs in agricultural economics and
marketing, agribusiness, and agrarian law;
- Develop the ability and confidence of participating
faculty to evaluate and revise curriculum and courses through the
application of basic principles of learning and curriculum development;
and,
- Establish enduring US-Eurasia institutional
relationships that will catalyze and support curriculum development,
course revision, and faculty strengthening in the areas of agricultural
economics, agribusiness, and agrarian law.
Download full Program
Desciption and Requirements (Word document)
For more information, contact
Svetlana Yariga
Administrative Assistant
Artyoma Business Center
US Embassy
Agricultural Affairs Office
4, Hlyubochitska St.
Kyiv, 04050, Ukraine
Office 380.44.490.4005
Fax 380.44.490.4110
agkiev@yahoo.com
