The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service is looking for a few outstanding senior and graduate level college and university students to work in our overseas offices to promote U.S. agricultural interests through the International Agricultural Internship Program (IAIP) for fALL 2008.

The USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service, one of the four U.S. government foreign service agencies, places about ten students each semester (spring, summer and fall) with excellent analysis, marketing, writing, language and organizational skills and experience to work on international agricultural trade policy issues, commodity and market analysis and organizing trade events in our overseas offices for a 10-16 week paid internship. U.S. citizen students who are majoring in a business- or science-related agricultural field, i.e. Ag Econ, Econ, Finance, Business or Marketing, International Studies or Relations, Law or in a Biotechnology Program are eligible.

• Online registration for fall 2008 is March 3, 2008, spring 2009 semester closes on July 1, 2008, and summer 2009 application deadline is November 15, 2008.
• For more information about IAIP, click on http://www.fas.usda.gov/admin/student/iaip/index.asp
• For further information, email: internships@fas.usda.gov
• For more information on all FAS intern programs, please go to http://www.fas.usda.gov/admin/newjobs/fasjobs.asp