Four years ago, in June 1974, the writer compiled information on the enrollment of LDC graduate students in U.S. university departments of economics and agricultural and resource economics covering five academic years, 1969-73 (AJAE). The 1974 survey revealed without question that a significant percentage of graduate students studying in fields related to the economics of agriculture comes from LDC countries. Among the fifty-five departments in that five-year period, there were a total of 5,094 entering graduate students of whom 1,480 or 29.05% came from eighty LDC countries. In some departments the percentage of LDC students was higher than 50%. The presence of such a large number of LDC students in U.S. graduate programs underscores the importance of efforts to strengthen their professional training within the host departments. Early in 1978 the International Committee of the American Association of Agricultural Economics (AAEA) set in motion a further study of U.S. training and related research activities for LDC students with special funding from the Agency for International Development. The primary target group was the network of Land Grant Universities-including the 1890 colleges-with departments of agricultural, food, resource, and applied economics, including those universities where agricultural economic interests are subsumed within a single department of economics. We also included a sample of private university economics departments where international agricultural economic interests are served.