ANSAB is a non-profit, non-governmental organization working in the South Asia region.  The organization promotes community-based enterprises and value chains, natural resources management, and biodiversity conservation, especially for non-timber products and high value crops.  It is committed to biodiversity conservation and economic development through community-based enterprises.  ANSAB encourages organic certification for NTFPs in Nepal and has played a facilitation role in organic certification for NTFPs for various products, including 9 essential oils. 

The mission of CPBR is to enhance knowledge, understanding, conservation and sustainable utilization of plant biodiversity in Australia.  The Centre aims to be a national centre of excellence in the fields of plant systematics and conservation biology, as a basis for the sustainable use and management and conservation of Australian vegetation.  Centre resources available online do not indicate a focus on organics, but, because much native vegetation is grown in the absence of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the work of the CPBR likely covers many organically grown products. 

The Division of Organism & Environment within the Department researches organisms and their populations to understand origins, functions, diversity and sustainability to provide a basis for addressing existing and future challenges like loss of biodiversity.  Research areas include using ecological principles to manage sustainable agro-ecosystems that are both productive and natural resource conserving.  Current research projects include agricultural landscape ecology such as use of biological corridors in pest management and summer cover crops on pest populations. 

The Department focuses on investigating ecological processes operating at the level of ecosystems and population/species and the interactions at both levels.  Ecosystem research within the Department looks at the forest ecosystem and responses to forest cutting; land-use changes; the impacts of the introduction of plants; and the maintenance of wetland biodiversity when land is used for agriculture. 

Established in 2001, the ESRI aims to carry out research on the various aspects of the environment. Many qualified professors in Biology, Chemistry, Law, etc. at Shahid Beheshti University collaborate with the work of the Institute. ESRI offers Master and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Sciences. One of the research objectives of the Institute is studying economic factors related to bio-environmental research.

Fundación Neotrópica’s mission is to promote initiatives that spark participation in sustainable management of natural resources to improve human development.  The Foundation is currently analysing interventions in conservation buffer zones and ecotourism.  This webpage is only available in Spanish.   

BfN is the central scientific authority in Germany for both national and international nature conservation.  In addition to playing a role in the protection of biodiversity, the Agency is responsible for looking after the regulations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in the European Union (CITES).  As such, the BfN plays an active role in national and international discussions around organic wild collection, which often includes aromatic and medicinal plants. 

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 Iranian Research Institute for Plant Protection (ex. Plant Pests and Diseases Research institute) presently comprises ten research departments with 32 provincial branches covering all agro-ecological zones and execute approximately 700 research projects per year. A major field of work is biological control.

LI-BIRD’s goal is to contribute reducing poverty and improving social justice by empowering poor and marginalized people to improve quality of life.  The organization aims to achieve this through participatory approaches to research and development on natural resources, biodiversity and ecosystem services.  Activities at LI-BIRD fit into five programmes: Agriculture Innovations for Livelihood Security; Biodiversity for Sustainable Livelihoods; Ecosystems Health and Services; Policy and Social Research for Wider and Inclusive Impacts; and Knowledge Management and Capacity Building.