The AREC focuses on sustainable agricultural management in rural areas in Austria. The Centre fuses higher school education with research in the areas of grassland and livestock management, plant production, holistic animal health, conservation of endangered farm animal genetic resources and organic legislatives. The Institute of Organic Farming researches organic grassland and livestock management and currently has projects on the impact of different grazing systems on the soil and the impact of calving season on milk yield.   

The Institute of Organic Farming aims to evaluate and scientifically support the further development organic farming laws. Three fields are addressed by the Institute: organic animal husbandry, organic crop production, organic pasture management. Sustainability in terms of environmental and animal appropriateness and the profitability of the farms are at the heart of the research.

ICARDA is a CGIAR research center with a geographic mandate covering the countries of Central and West Asia, North Africa, and developing countries with subtropical and temperate dry areas. In the dry areas of the world, ICARDA researches the improvement of small ruminants (sheep and goat) nutrition and productivity and the rehabilitation and management of rangelands. 

ICROFS is a collaboration between research groups in different institutions and universities and coordinated through a head office in Denmark. The secretariat of ICROFS initiates, coordinates, and participates in international research activities. The aim of their work is to strengthen the positions of organic farming and food systems and to increase the conversion possibilities from conventional farming production. ICROFS plays a central role in a large number of research endeavours, including the DARCOF III, CORE Organic, CERTCOST and GlobalOrg projects. ICROFS also manages Organic Eprints, an open, online archive for research in organic agriculture with more that 8,000 publications. 

ILRI is a CGIAR research center based in Kenya and Ethiopia. The Institute’s aim is to improve the well-being of people in developing countries by enhancing the contribution livestock makes to smallholder farming. The Institute’s primary research focuses on smallholder crop-livestock systems in arid, humid, and highland areas and the transition from subsistence to a market economy. ILRI studies methods of increasing production by precision manuring, patchy grazing, forage-legume rotations and grazing animals on particular crop residues.

The vTI is part of the German Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. The goal of the Institute of Organic Farming is to optimize process and product quality in organic crop production. Studies at the Institute are in the fields of organic husbandry, organic crop production and organic pasture management.

KARI’s mission is to contribute agricultural innovations and knowledge towards improved livelihoods and commercialization of agriculture.  It aims to do this through increasing productivity and fostering value-chains while simultaneously conserving the environment.  The goal of the Livestock and Range Research Program is to contribute towards year-round availabilty of adequate balanced feeds and improved animal management to enable the sector to be economically self-sufficient.  The Program has sub-projects focusing on issues related to dairy, beef, sheep and goat, poultry, and camel. 

ATTRA is a joint collaboration between the National Center for Appropriate Technology and the USDA.  It seeks to provide information and technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, extension agents, educators, and others involved in sustainable agriculture in the United States.  Although ATTRA is focused specifically on the USDA Organic Standards, it provides information that would be useful to international members of the organic community.  Organic agriculture publications are organized into the following areas: regulations, certification, transition and history; fruit; vegetables, flowers and herbs; field crops; livestock; control of pests; soil and fertilizer issues; and marketing. 

OACC’s vision is a science-based organic agricultural system supporting Canadian communities by supporting and facilitating research and education for organic producers and consumers.  The results of research at the Centre are available to farmers and the public through their website, bulletins, news articles, and web-based courses.  Information is available on the following topic areas: soils, horticulture, field crops, livestock, food and health, ecology and environment, social science, consumers, economics, transition to organics and barriers to organics.

RIFR is a branch of the federal agricultural research organization of Iran.  The Institute has ten research divisions: Botany, Forest, Wood Science and Forest Products, Rangelands, Desert, Medicinal Plants and By-products, Natural Research Mechanization, Poplar and Fast Growing Trees, Biotechnology and Conservation and Protection of Forest and Rangeland.  RIFR conducts studies for the identification, conservation, restoration, exploitation and sustainable use of forest, rangelands and deserts and their products.