Coordinating Agricultural Development & Innovation (CADI) to enable America First Trade Wins in Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia

The CADI, funded through an interagency agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA/FAS) and the State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, supports a portfolio of projects in Eastern Europe (non-E.U.), the South Caucasus, and Central Asia. These projects are designed to make American agriculture safer, stronger, and more prosperous. Specifically, the portfolio seeks to prevent and remove trade barriers for U.S. agricultural exports and support U.S. exporters and trading partners. Collectively, the portfolio is working to:

• Add over $622 million to the U.S. economy by removing trade barriers.
• Contribute an additional $312 million to the U.S. economy through direct support to American exporters and trading partners.
• Avoid over $50 billion in potential economic harm to the U.S. economy by preventing lost market access due to the spread of livestock contagions to the United States and new trade barriers.

The awardee will conduct original basic and applied research that will focus on advancing a trade agenda that benefits America’s ranchers, farmers, and producers.

Through this applied research, the awardee will:

• Provide throughout the period of performance actionable recommendations to help achieve the CADI portfolio’s targets.
• Track the portfolio’s attributable accomplishments toward these trade outcomes, including the development of U.S. county-level impact estimates.

DELIVERABLES

1. Final report on the recipient’s research to quantify the CADI portfolio’s direct economic impact on American farmers;

Trimmed here, the full scope, expected outcomes and award criteria are on the official topic page ↗.