What exactly is the connection between IFDC and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
IFDC can be considered an outgrowth of TVA’s National Fertilizer Development Center (NFDC). Because of their work with fertilizers, it seemed that TVA/NFDC should play a role in the agriculture of developing countries. The program at TVA was referred to as the International Fertilizer Development program. In spite of international successes, it became increasingly clear that TVA, with its objective of developing technologies for the U.S. fertilizer industry, was very restricted in what it was allowed to do to assist developing countries in particular and the agricultural sector in general (as stipulated in its charter and by a Congressional act). Thus, a definitive need arose for an international center that could freely address the fertilizer technology needs of developing countries. This is why IFDC was created and why the Center is located on the TVA Reservation in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. In 1975 the international staff of TVA was transferred to IFDC to become the nucleus of the new
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