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.

ISCAR aims to stimulate scientific and interdisciplinary research of relevance for the Alps, ensure the continuity of scientific quality, and promote the transfer of knowledge to the general public. In the future, ISCAR hopes to focus its work on sustainable development of the Alps.

The ISHS aims to promote horticultural research of all sorts. It has over 7000 Individual Members worldwide, a large number of Institutional Members and 50 Member States/Countries. ISHS functions as a major source of information on global horticultural research and encourages the development of international collaborations by bringing together scientific and technical professionals. The Society has a large number of Commissions, Sections and Working Groups, dedicated to all types of horticultural systems, products, and issues, including MAPs, underutilized plant genetic resources, landscaping and urban horticulture, post harvest handling, economics and management and irrigation. Most notably for ORCA, ISHS has a Commission on Sustainability through Integrated and Organic Horticulture.

ITC is a research institute serving the West African region, particularly the sub-humid and humid areas. Its mission is to contribute to efforts aimed at increasing livestock productivity and utilization through the optimal and sustainable exploitation of the genetic resistance of indigenous breeds of livestock. The Centre’s research approach is systems low-input oriented targeting the urban and peri-urban settings. It focuses on disease risk assessment and control strategies; levels of production and nutrient versus disease resiliencies; economic efficiency; and enhancing marketing in medium to high input systems. 

IUFRO is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that aims to unite individuals and organizations dedicated to forest and forest products research and related disciplines. Currently it brings together over 15,000 scientists in nearly 700 Member Organizations, representing over 110 countries. As such, IUFRO supports cooperation on both organic and non-organic forestry research. The Union has divisions dedicated to all aspects of forests and their products, including divisions dedicated to agroforestry and NTFPs. 

IUPHAR is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO).  Its main objective is to foster international cooperation in pharmacology. IUPHAR has a section dedicated specifically to natural products. The objective of this Natural Products Section is to provide a forum for information exchange around the isolation, identification, standardization, efficacy, safety and mechanism(s) of action of natural products. The section has no specific mandate around organics, but nonetheless inevitably plays a role in knowledge sharing in the area.  

IWMI is a CGIAR centre aimed at improving the management of land and water resources for food, livelihoods and nature. One of the Institute’s research foci is water quality, health, and environment. The goal is to evaluate strategies that enhance water quality, increase food production and alleviate poverty while minimizing negative impacts on human health and the environment. It also aims to make an asset out of urban wastewaster by reducing health and environmental impacts for irrigated agriculture in the urban-rural interface.

The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute is an international centre for research on the environmental and social consequences of rural land use. The Institute has recently partnered with IRRI to study methane emissions estimates from rice fields and evaluate ways of reducing those emissions.

Agroforestry research at Iowa State University involves researchers from several different departments, including Forestry, Agronomy, Animal Ecology, Earth Resources, Entomology and Plant Pathology.  Research projects are diverse and include collaborations with the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, a leading institution in sustainable agriculture systems.