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)
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)
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)
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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