Press Releases 2006

U.S. Embassy Announces New Fellows Program

14 July 2006

The Embassy’s Agricultural Counselor Ed Porter is pleased to announce the commencement of a Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows Program for Poland. The goal of this program is to promote food security and economic growth by increasing scientific knowledge and collaborative research to improve agricultural productivity.

Under this program, qualified Polish scientists, faculty and policy makers will be selected for educational fellowships lasting four to six weeks at participating land grant universities, government research facilities and other institutions in the United States.

The establishment of this program for Poland is the result of close cooperation between the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Warsaw Agricultural University.

For more information about the Borlaug Fellows Program, please visit the website listed below or contact the Office of the Agricultural Counselor at the U.S. Embassy.

Borlaug Fellows Program website: http://www.fas.usda.gov/icd/borlaug/borlaug.htm.

Office of the Agricultural Counselor
Foreign Agricultural Service
Ambasada Amerykanska
Al. Ujazdowskie 29/31
00 540 Warszawa
E-mail: AgWarsaw@poczta.onet.pl