Agri Punjab is the State Department concerned with agricultural research and extension.  The Department’s Ayub Agricultural Research Institute is the primary research centre.  Research directorates at the Institute cover the following areas: agronomy, plant protection, horticulture, post harvest, cotton, oil seeds, pulses, sugarcane, vegetables, wheat, arid areas, maize and millets, rice, fodder, and soil science.  A special campaign was started to research methods of increasing crop production within a period of two years.      

Agro Eco Louis Bolk Institute conducts research on organic agriculture, nutrition and health care and engages in knowledge transfer in Africa.  The Institute, which is based in the Netherlands, has two regional offices in Africa to engage in research and information dissemination around tropical organic agriculture: Eastern Africa (Uganda) and West Africa (Ghana).  Research at the Institute is divided into four thematic areas: Human, Animal, Plant and Soil.  Current studies include organic productivity trials using different pest and disease management strategies; organic cotton staple length trials; studies on organic livestock rearing techniques; research on the nutritional and health attributes of organic food; and work in support of organic social impact research. 

El objetivo general del CIFAED es potenciar la Agricultura Ecológica como motor de desarrollo rural sostenible, dado que ésta permite mejorar y mantener el buen estado de los recursos naturales; generar renta para los habitantes de los pueblos; revalorizar los recursos locales; articularse con otras actividades económicas y desarrollar canales cortos de comercialización que permiten a los productores la captación de un mayor valor añadido, y mostrar el importante impacto socio-económico que la Agricultura Ecológica está generando en la Unión Europea, en conjunción con otras estrategias con las que establece sinergias. En el Centro de Investigación y Formación de Agricultura Ecológica y Desarrollo Rural de Granada se llevan a cabo diversas labores de investigación en torno a la agricultura y ganadería ecológicas.

The Department focuses on baking, feed, and milling science and management.  The website does not note any current work around organic post harvest processes, but the Department has previously showed interest in the area.

The aim of FERA is to support and develop a sustainable food chain and healthy environment and to protect the global community from biological and chemical risks.  Research on biopesticides is regularly included in their work on environmental risk assessment.  In 2009, FERA completed a project on biological pesticides for the control of storage insect pests.

FQH aims to establish a network of research institutions that specialize in the relationship between organic food and human health. Involved research institutions prioritise topics and projects that can be implemented through collective effort. In addition to developing a common research agenda, FQH produces a free newsletter and coordinates member workshops and meetings. The coordinator and secretariat are housed at the Agro Eco Louis Bolk Institute in the Netherlands. 

IRRI is a CGIAR centre focused on rice research and education. The Institute strives to reduce poverty through improved and diversified rice systems; to ensure that rice production is sustainable and can handle climate change; and to improve the nutrition and health of poor rice consumers and farmers. Research conducted by and coordinated by IRRI covers a breath of rice research areas from breeding and genetics through post-harvest. The Institute’s Rice and Climate Change Consortium focuses on reducing the net contributions of rice systems to global warming and developing new rice cultivars that are better adapted to climatic stresses.

OCA is an online non-profit organization campaigning for health, justice and sustainability.  The Association deals with issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, health, sustainability, corporate accountability and Fair Trade.

Bioforsk is a national research and development branch of the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food.  The Organic Food and Farming Division of the branch plays the leading role in research and development of organic agriculture in Norway, especially around market development.  Projects include the Innovative Public Food Procurement for Youth project that examines organic and conventional food procurement, a study on quality analysis of critical control points within the whole food chain and their impact on food quality, and a study on organic milk quality.

The Program is a collaborative effort between the University’s Cooperative Extension Service and the Departments of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Entomology, and Botany and Plant Pathology.  The website does not note any current research in organic post harvest processes, but the Program has engaged in research in the area in the past.