DITSL aims to foster sustainable rural development in the Third World and countries in the process of industrialization.  The Institute conducts research in adaptive capacity to climate change, diversification of agro-ecosystems, urban food, and community based management of livestock.  DITSL is a non-profit company and is located within the Faculty of Organic Agriculture at the University of Kassel.

Ghana Organic Agriculture Network (GOAN) was established in 1995 and is now the main grouping of organic NGOs and trade associations in Ghana. It brings together interested farmer groups, individuals, NGOs and institutions to enable them to share ideas and experiences. It has about 150 member groups and organisations, representing approximately one thousand individual members. GOAN comprises an organic agriculture resource centre in Kumasi and several regional sub-centres which provide information and advice, education, demonstration and training. Local centres have set up demonstration farms and gardens throughout Ghana to enable wider provision of information and training and to ensure maximum adoption of organic and sustainable farming practices. GOAN has facilitated and carried out many educational and training workshops throughout the country, at regional, district and village levels for farmers. It also has links with research institutes to examine alternative methods of pest control, particularly for cocoa, oil palm cotton, cereals and fruit vegetables.

The World Vegetable Center, with its headquarters in Taiwan, hosts the GHI. This Initiative aims to increase economic opportunities and food security for the poor. The Initiative has a focus area dedicated to underutilised crops.   

Hainan University was recently formed by the merger of the former South China University of Tropical Agriculture and the former Hainan University.  Hainan University focuses on studies of tropical areas, ocean, and ecology.

icipe’s mission is to use insect science to help alleviate poverty, ensure food security, and improve the overall health status of people in the tropics. The Institute develops strategies for the use of harmful and useful antropods, while preserving the natural resource base through research. icipe has four divisions focusing on environmental health, human health, plant health, and animal health. The Institute conducts research on methods for pest control that are selective, non-polluting, not susceptible to resistance and conserve Africa’s biodiversity.

CIAT is a CGIAR Centre dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger in tropics while improving agricultural productivity and protecting natural resources in developing countries. CIAT is organized into three main categories: enhancing and improving biodiversity; improving the lives of farmers and the agro-ecosystem; and soil biology and fertility. Also of interest, CIAT houses the Information Centre on Tropical Fruits, which contains information on thousands of varieties. 

ICCOA is a knowledge and learning centre for all aspects of organic agriculture and agribusiness. The Centre, which is located in India, works in partnership with FiBL. Its mission is to help build the competence of individuals and organizations of the South Asian region contributing to the creation of ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable agriculture and organic business.  The Centre is divided into five programs concerning different aspects of organic agriculture: Policy and Advocacy; Research and Technology; Capacity Building; Standards and Quality Management; and Market Development.

IITA is a CGIAR centre that focuses on the tropical areas of Africa. The Institute’s mission is to enhance food security and improve livelihoods in Africa. It has the following research programmes: Agriculture and Health; Agro-biodiversity; Banana and Plantain Systems; Cereals and Legume Systems; Horticulture and Tree Systems; Root and Tubers Systems; Threats to Food Security; Integrated Pest Management. In addition, IITA is the coordinating centre for the Ecoregional Programme for the Humid and Subhumid Tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, the Institute has a project in which the market potential of organic vegetables in West Africa is being assessed and organic pest management techniques are being disseminated through the Farmer Field School Approach.

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.

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.