Project Development Services | Smith Center for International Sustainable Agriculture

Your partner in advancing UTIA’s global reach.

The project development team at the Smith Center is committed to globalizing UTIA’s research, extension, and education mission by providing a suite of services, tools, and partnerships that position staff and faculty for success internationally.

Who we are

Hans Sati Goertz

Asst Director Of Project Development, Smith International Center

Sara Beatriz Mulville

Program Administrator, Smith International Center

Michelle Hayano Boutell

Graduate Research Assistant, Smith International Center

How we work

Consultations

We work with faculty to

Develop strategies to secure funding
Globalize their programming

Partnership building

We identify and match faculty with international funding opportunities. We also help faculty connect and partner with external collaborators.

Project development

We support grant application by:

Developing teaming strategies
Reviewing and editing application materials
Writing application sections, e.g., background, monitoring and evaluation plans, broader impacts, sustainability plans

Project support

Smith Center members can be written into grants to play supporting roles, e.g., geographic expertise, program management and coordination, monitoring and evaluation.

Funding Opportunities

The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) links U.S. agriculture to the world to enhance export opportunities and global food security.

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.

Cochran Fellowship Program: Provides short-term, U.S.-based training opportunities to agricultural professionals from developing and middle-income countries.

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.

Faculty Exchange Program: Provides semester-long U.S. training opportunities to university-level agricultural educators from developing countries.

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

Scientific Cooperation Research Program: Supports joint research, education, and extension projects between U.S. and international agricultural professionals.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States’ government agency that leads international development and humanitarian assistance efforts to partner countries.

Feed the Future Innovation Labs

The Feed the Future Innovation Labs draw on the expertise of top U.S. universities and developing country research institutions to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges in agriculture and food security. Led by U.S. universities, these Innovation Labs are central to advancing novel solutions that support our goals to reduce global hunger, poverty and undernutrition.

The Gates Foundation is a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Their Global Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems.

Funding Opportunities

Request for Proposal Opportunities

Grant Opportunities