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These organizations can have a powerful impact on the people of the Pacific:

• Pacific Agricultural Schools • International Organizations • Volunteer Organizations • Pacific Islands Network Group •

 

These organizations may be helpful to your work.

 

Center for International Research and Agronomic Development (CIRAD)

CIRAD-New Caledonia is a French research centre working with developing countries to tackle international agricultural and development issues
 

 

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

An on-line bibliographic database with 40,000 citations on tropical areas, New Caledonia, written in French

 

Institute for Research, Extension and Training in Agriculture

IRETA specializes in research, publications, training, based in Samoa

 

Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences

JIRCAS is making many active contributions internationally to address the agricultural, forestry, fisheries, food and environmental problems of the world, with a focus on developing regions.

 

Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC-New Caledonia, Fiji)

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Permanent Heads of Agriculture and Livestock Production Services

 

South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC-Fiji)
Works on mineral and ocean issues

 

South Pacific Forum Secretariat (SPFS-Fiji) and South Pacific Organizations Coordinating Committee (SPOCC)

 

South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP-Samoa)

 

University of the South Pacific (USP-Suva)

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Regional & International Organizations with Connections to Tropical Areas

 

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

 

Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC-Taiwan)

 

Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD)

 

Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

 

Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE-Costa Rica)

 

Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crops Development in Asia and the Pacific (CAPSA) - Bogor, Indonesia.
 

Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International (CABI-books and courses on agriculture-UK)

 

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO-Australia)

 

Consultive Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR-gateway to 16

international agricultural research centers)

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Center for International Forestry Research (CIFR-Indonesia)

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International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT-Columbia)

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International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA-Nigeria)

 

Department of Primary Industries (Queensland Australia - some info on tropical products, Centre for Wet Tropics Agriculture)

 

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO-Rome)

 

Food & Fertilizer Technology Center for the Asian and Pacific Region (FFTA-Taiwan)

 

FAO/SPC Animal Health and Production

 

International Benchmark Sites Network for Agrotechnology Transfer (IBSNAT-Based out of Hawaii with many cooperators)

 

International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO-Austria, good list of forestry links)

 

International Board for Soil Research and Management (IBSRAM-Thailand-Pacificland Project)

 

International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC-works to increase soil fertility in tropics/ subtropics - Alabama)

 

Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (database of tropical agriculture, meetings, technology)

 

Rainforest Alliance (New York, USA)

 

Royal Tropical Institute (KIT, Netherlands, databases of tropical areas research articles, publisher, funding agency)

 

Small Island Development States network (SIDSnet - a UN project networking small islands around the world)

 

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

 

Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA-Lots of books on tropical agriculture-Netherlands)

 

University of Puerto Rico

 

University of the Virgin Islands

 

University of the West Indies, Mona

 

University of Tropical Agriculture (Vietnam)

 

United Nations Development Program (UNDP-Rome)

 

United Nations Development Program (UNDP-Fiji)

 

United National Environmental Program (UNEP - Small Islands Program -- lots of information!)

 

World Agriculture Information Centre (WAICENT-FAO-UNDP)

 

World Bank (and sister agencies)

 

World Health Organization (WHO)

 

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