Inter American Institute For Cooperation On Agriculture

The Inter American Institute For Cooperation On Agriculture (IICA), registered as Instituto Interamericano De Cooperacion Para La Agricultura and headquartered in San José Province, Costa Rica, is an international not-for-profit organization that serves as a prime recipient of federal grant awards from the U.S. government. IICA provides technical assistance, capacity building, training, and research collaboration services focused on agricultural development, food safety, trade facilitation, animal health, climate resilience, and regulatory harmonization across Latin America and the Caribbean region. The organization leverages its regional expertise and network of member institutions to support U.S. policy objectives in international agricultural cooperation, trade standards alignment, and food system modernization throughout the Americas.

IICA has received one federal contract award in its recent history, demonstrating limited engagement through the contract vehicle. In July 2021, the organization received a purchase order contract valued at $14,606.34 from the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs for a Biotech Outreach Program 2021, which was completed by May 30, 2022. This contract represented a relatively modest engagement compared to the organization's substantial grant portfolio and did not utilize any set-aside designations.

IICA maintains an extensive portfolio of federal grant awards across multiple funding agencies and programs, positioning itself as a significant partner for U.S. government international development and agricultural initiatives. The organization has received cooperative agreements and project grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) across several offices and programs, including the Technical Agricultural Assistance program (CFDA 10.960), the U.S. Codex Office Support for International Activities (CFDA 10.997), and the Agricultural Research program (CFDA 10.001). Recent major awards include $500,000 cooperative agreements from USDA's Office of the Secretary (awarded September 2025 and June 2025) for international outreach to enhance Latin American and Caribbean participation in the Codex Alimentarius Commission; a $500,000 cooperative agreement from the Food and Drug Administration (awarded September 2024) for modernizing and expanding FDA food safety initiatives and developing training materials for the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule; a $1,500,000 project grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (awarded February 2024) for food security and agricultural assistance benefiting 25,700 individuals in Haiti; a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement from USDA's Technical Agricultural Assistance program (awarded September 2023) for building capacity to prevent and control African Swine Fever and transboundary animal diseases in the Western Hemisphere; and multiple cooperative agreements from USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service and Technical Agricultural Assistance programs addressing sanitary and phytosanitary standards, climate action in agriculture, pest risk mitigation in the Greater Caribbean region, emerging animal disease prevention, and science-based regulatory capacity building. IICA has also served as a sub-awardee on federal grants, including a sub-award from the International Food Policy Research Institute (awarded September 2023) supporting climate change policy design and implementation across Latin America and the Caribbean, a sub-award from Improving Economies For Stronger Communities (awarded September 2023) for strengthening agricultural extension providers' capacity in climate resilience, and a sub-award from TechnoServe, Inc. (awarded May 2023) to increase competitiveness and resilience of coffee sectors in target countries. The organization's grant work encompasses technical assistance, regulatory reform, training and capacity building, research collaboration, policy support, network coordination, and impact measurement across food safety, agricultural trade, animal and plant health, climate resilience, and rural development.