---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2151a–1"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2151a–1"
heading: "Agricultural research"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2151a-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Foreign Assistance"
  - "Subchapter I — International Development"
  - "Part I — Declaration of Policy; Development Assistance Authorizations"
---

# §2151a–1. Agricultural research


Agricultural research carried out under this chapter shall (1) take account of the special needs of small [farmers](/usc/22/2403.md?p=p) in the determination of research priorities, (2) include research on the interrelationships among technology, institutions, and economic, social, environmental, and cultural factors affecting small-farm [agriculture](/usc/22/2403.md?p=o), and (3) make extensive use of field testing to adapt basic research to local conditions. Special emphasis shall be placed on disseminating research results to the farms on which they can be put to use, and especially on institutional and other arrangements needed to assure that small [farmers](/usc/22/2403.md?p=p) have effective access to both new and existing improved technology.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–195, pt. I, § 103A, as added Pub. L. 94–161, title III, § 303, Dec. 20, 1975, 89 Stat. 857; amended Pub. L. 95–424, title I, § 103(d), Oct. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 945.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 87–195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424, known as the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2151 of this title and Tables.

### Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–424 inserted “environmental” after “social” in cl. 2.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 95–424 effective Oct. 1, 1978, see section 605 of Pub. L. 95–424, set out as a note under section 2151 of this title.