此上下文应用程序侧重于在教师和学生之间发展知识，经验和学术能力，提供服务，并促进参与促进国际农业发展和教育的活动。这包括在学生中发展，特别是对国际农业发展计划的知识或经验有限的学生的发展，对促进农业的努力的程度，限制，性质，设置，所采用的方法，所涉机构以及后果的理解发展，特别是在发展中国家。它涉及准备要在国际舞台上从事其专业领域的人员，以熟悉背景，趋势，任务，角色，职责，所需的准备工作以及影响他们在该工作中取得成功的重大事件。
This contextual application focuses on developing knowledge, experience, and scholarly competence among faculty and students, providing service, and fostering involvement in activities that enhance agricultural development and education internationally. This includes developing in students, especially those with limited knowledge of or experience in programs of international agricultural development, an understanding of the extent of, constraints on, nature of, settings for, approaches used, institutions involved, and consequences of efforts to facilitate agricultural development, particularly in developing nations. It involves preparing people who want to work in their field of specialization in the international arena to become familiar with settings, trends, tasks, roles, responsibilities, preparations needed for, and critical incidents affecting their success in such work.<br><br>Interwoven throughout this contextual area is helping people develop and exhibit cross-cultural understanding and cultural sensitivity while working with or teaching people who have diverse backgrounds and educations. This contextual application also involves preparing people in both formal and informal agricultural and natural resource programming, including participatory programming that values indigenous knowledge. The purpose is to improve social, economic, or environmental conditions, while being particularly cognizant of social-cultural consequences. It includes making comparisons among programs and functions, strengths and weaknesses, and the organization of and relationships among institutions and agencies in national, international, private, and public sectors designed to serve agriculture in developing nations. It involves learning the processes by which development projects originate, are carried out and managed, and are evaluated.