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Acronyms, organizations and websites


AARINENA

Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa


www.aarinena.org

ACIAR

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

ACT

Action by Churches Together

ADB

Asian Development Bank

AIT

Asian Institute of Technology


www.ait.org

ANAPO

National Association of Oilseed Producers (Brazil)

AOAD

Arab Organization for Agricultural Development


www.aoad.org

APAARI

Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions


www.apaari.org

APAFRI

Asia-Pacific Association of Forestry Research Institutions


http://iufro.boku.ac.at/iufro/asiapacific/apafri

APARIS

Asia-Pacific Agricultural Research Information System


www.apaari.org

APCC

Asian and Pacific Coconut Community

APCoAB

Asia-Pacific Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology

APSA

Asia and Pacific Seed Association


www.apsaseed.com

ARD

agricultural research for development

AREO

Agricultural Research & Education Organization (Iran)


www.areo.or.ir

ARI

agricultural research institute

AVRDC

The World Vegetable Center


www.avrdc.org

BMVEL

Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture (Germany)


http://www.verbraucherministerium.de

BMZ

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany)


www.bmz.de

BUROTROP

Bureau for the Development of Research on Tropical Perennial Oil Crops


www.burotrop.org

CA

conservation agriculture

CAADP

Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme

CABI

CAB International


www.cabi.org

CAC

Central Asia and the Caucasus

CATIE

Tropical Agriculture Research and Education Center, Costa Rica


www.catie.ac.cr

CFC

Common Fund for Commodities


www.common-fund.org

CGIAR

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research


www.cgiar.org

CIAT

International Center for Tropical Agriculture


www.ciat.cgiar.org

CIDA

Canadian International Development Agency


www.acdi-cida.gc.ca

CIP

International Potato Center


www.cipotato.org

CIRAD

Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (France)


www.cirad.fr

CLAN

Cereals and Legumes Asia Network

COGENT

International Coconut Genetic Resources Network


http://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/networks/cogent/index.htm

CORRA

Council for Partnerships on Rice Research in Asia


www.irri.org/corra

CP

Challenge Programme (CGIAR)

CSO

civil society organization

CTA

Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU


www.agricta.org

DANIDA

Danish International Development Assistance

DFID

Department for International Development, United Kingdom


www.dfid.gov.uk

DGIS

Directorate General for International Cooperation (Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs)


http://wwwminbuza.nl/default.asp?CMS_ITEM=7C8EB095BEFE42C0A0ED2385B434B424X1X56192X15

DMC

Direct Sowing, Mulch-based Systems and Conservation Agriculture


http://agroecologie.cirad.fr

DONATA

Dissemination of New Technologies in Africa

DPGN

Date Palm Global Network


http://dpgn.uaeu.ac.ae

DURAS

Promoting Sustainable Development in Southern Agricultural Research Systems

EARD-InfoSys+

European Agricultural Research for Development Information System


http://www.infosysplus.org

EBO

EGFAR Back Office


http://www.egfar.org/ebo/masterpage.jsp

EGFAR

Electronic Global Forum on Agricultural Research


www.egfar.org

EMBRAPA

Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation


www.embrapa.br

ETC Ecoculture

www.etc-ecoculture.org

EU

European Union


http://europa.eu.int

FAEPE

Fundação de Apoio Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão, Brazil

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations


www.fao.org

FAO/RAP

FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific


www.fao.or.th

FARA

Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

FO

farmer organization

FONTAGRO

Regional Fund on Agricultural Technology (FORAGRO)


www.fontagro.org

FORAGRO

Forum of the Americas for Agricultural Research and Technological Development


www.iica.int/foragro

GEF

Global Environment Facility

GFAR

Global Forum on Agricultural Research


www.egfar.org

GFU

Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species


www.underutilized-species.org

GoFAR

Group of Fisheries and Aquatic Research

GPP

Global Partnership Programme, GFAR

GTAF

Technical Group in Support of the FORAGRO Secretariat

GTZ

German Agency for Technical Cooperation


www.gtz.de

IABA

Inter-American Board of Agriculture


www.iica.int/organos_iica/JIA

IACR

Institute of Arable Crop Research

IAPAR

Instituto Agronômico do Paraná (Brazil)

IARC

international agricultural research centre

IAR4D

Integrated Agricultural Research for Development

ICARDA

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas


www.icarda.org

ICBA

International Center for Biosaline Agriculture


www.biosaline.org

ICG

International Coconut Genebank

ICM

information and communication management

ICRA

International Centre for development oriented Research in Agriculture


www.icra-edu.org

ICRAF

World Agroforestry Centre


http://www.worldagroforestrycentre.org

ICRISAT

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics


www.icrisat.org

ICT

information and communication technology

IDIAP

Instituto de Investigación Agropecuaria de Panamá


www.idiap.gob.pa

IDRC

International Development Research Centre


www.idrc.ca

IFAD

International Fund for Agricultural Development


www.ifad.org

IICA

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture


www.iica.int

IIRR

International Institute of Rural Reconstruction


www.iirr.org

ILRI

International Livestock Research Institute


www.ilri.org

INASP

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications


www.inasp.org.uk

INCANA

Inter-Regional Network for Research Collaboration on Sustainable Cotton Production in Asia and North Africa


www.aarinena.org/cottonnetwork/home.htm

INFOSYS

European Information System

INFOTEC

Scientific and Technological Information System for the Agricultural sector in the Americas (FORAGRO)


http://infotec.ws

INIFAP

Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (Mexico)


www.inifap.gob.mx

IPGRI

International Plant Genetic Resources Institute


www.ipgri.cgiar.org

IPM

integrated pest management

IRD

Institut de recherche pour le développement, France


www.ird.fr

IRRI

International Rice Research Institute


www.irri.org

ISAAA

International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications


www.isaaa.org

iSC

Interim Science Council of the CGIAR

ISNAR

International Service for National Agricultural Research


www.ifpri.org/divs/isnar.htm

ISRA

Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles


www.isra.sn

ITFNET

International Tropical Fruits Network


www.itfnet.org

JUST

Jordan University of Science and Technology


www.just.edu.jo

KASSA

Knowledge Assessment and Sharing on Sustainable Agriculture (study title)

LABEX

EMPRAPA overseas laboratory

LAC

Latin America and the Caribbean

LBL

Swiss Center for Agricultural Extension


www.lbl.ch

LYD

lethal yellowing disease (coconut)

MAELA

Latin American and Caribbean Agroecological Movement


www.maela-net.org

MAPP

Multi-country Productivity Programme

NACA

Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific


www.enaca.org

NARI

National Agricultural Research Institute (Gambia)

NARS

national agricultural research system

NATURA

Network of European Agricultural [Tropically and Subtropically Oriented] Universities and Scientific Complexes Related with Agricultural Development


www.natura.agropolis.fr

NCARTT

National Center for Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer (Jordan)


www.ncartt.gov.jo

NEPAD

New Partnership for Africa’s Development


www.nepad.org

NERICA

New rice for Africa

NFR

Novel Food Regulation, European Union

NGO

non-government organization

NINP

national information nodal point

NORAD

Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation


www.norad.no

NRM

natural resource management

PARLATINO

Parlamento Latinamericano


www.parlatino.org.br

PCA

Philippine Coconut Authority

PCCMCA

Programa Cooperativo Centroamericano para el Mejoramiento de Cultivos y Animales

PELUM

Participatory Ecological Land-Use Management


www.pelum-zambia.net

PGR

plant genetic resources

PROCICARIBE

Caribbean Agricultural Science and Technology Networking System


www.procicaribe.org

PROCIANDINO

Programa Cooperativo de Investigación y Transferencia de


Technología para la Region Andina

PROCINORTE

Programa Cooperativo de Investigación Agrícola para la Región Norte

PROCIs

Programas Cooperativos de Investigación y Transferencia de Tecnología Agrícola (FORAGRO)

PROCISUR

Programa Cooperativo para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Agropecuario del Cono Sur


www.procisur.org.uy

PROCITROPICOS

Programa Cooperativo de Investigación y Transferencia de Tecnología para los Trópicos Suramericanos


www.procitropicos.org.br

PROCORD

Global Coconut Research for Development Programme

PROFIEET

PROmoting Farmer Innovation and Experimentation in EThiopia

PROINPA

Fundación para la Promoción y Investigación de Productos Andinos (Bolivia)


www.proinpa.org

PROLINNOVA

Promoting Local Innovation


www.prolinnova.net

QTL

quantative trait loci

RAEL

regional agricultural expert locator (APARIS)

RAIS

regional agricultural information system

REDARFIT

Redes de Sistemas Agroforestales y de Recursos Filogenéticos

RELMA

Regional Land Management Unit, East Africa (SIDA programme)


www.relma.org

REMERFI

Red Mesoamericana de Recursos Fitogenéticos

SARA

Selian Agricultural Research Institute

SDC

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation


http://www.deza.admin.ch

SICTA

Sistema de Integración Centroamericano de Tecnología Agrícola


www.infoagro.net/infotec/sicta

SMEs

small and medium-sized enterprises

SPAAR

Special Programme for African Agricultural Research

SRO

subregional organization

TAMNET

Tropical Asian Maize Network

USAID

United States Agency for International Development


www.usaid.gov

UTFANET

Underutilized Tropical Fruits in Asia Network


www.civil.soton.ac.uk/icuc/utfanet

WAICENT

World Agricultural Information Centre of FAO


www.fao.org/waicent

WWF

World Wide Fund for Nature


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