The John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer (FTF) Program
The John
Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer Program provides voluntary technical
assistance to farmers, farm groups, and agribusinesses in developing
and transitional countries to promote sustainable improvements in food
processing, production, and marketing. The program relies on the expertise
of volunteers from U.S. farms, land grant universities, cooperatives,
private agribusinesses, and nonprofit farm organizations to respond
to the local needs of host-country farmers and organizations. Volunteers
have been recruited from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
In general, these volunteers are not overseas development professionals,
but rather individuals who have domestic careers, farms, and agribusinesses,
or are retired persons who want to participate in development efforts.
Typically volunteers spend about 20 to 30 days in the host country.
The FTF Program was initially authorized by Congress in the 1985 Farm
Bill and funded through Title V of Public Law 480. It was re-authorized
by the 2002
Farm Bill to operate from FY 2004 - FY 2008. The Program has been
renamed the John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer Program to honor the pilot
on American Airlines Flight 11 to Los Angeles that crashed into the World
Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001.
For more detailed information on the FTF Program, follow these links:
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