USDA Arctic Black Carbon Initiative: Technical Exchange and Cooperative Activities

$299.8K USD

Funder	Department of Agriculture
Recipient Organization	U.S. Government - Department of Agriculture
Country	Russia
Start Date	Feb 04, 2012
End Date	Feb 03, 2016
Duration	1,460 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`5924-3`

Grant Description

Under this IAA, USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service/Office of Capacity Building and Development will deliver a program of scientific exchanges between the United States and the Russian Federation to strengthen capacities for estimating, reporting and mitigating Arctic black carbon pollution from agricultural burning.

The FAS activities include an Embassy Science Fellow to FAS-Moscow, two agricultural scientific exchange scholars, public outreach workshops and USDA technical consultancies.