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International Organizations

United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
   —FAO Global GIEWS: (crop prospects)
   —FAO Country Profile and Mapping Information -
   —FAOSTAT: Provides time-series and cross-sectional data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries.
  
FAO–Sub-national Statistical Data: A web-based facility for storing and access of sub-national agricultural statistical data files from the country source. National focal points are responsible for maintaining the database.
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP): Provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD): Promotes the development-
friendly integration of developing countries into the world economy.
United Nations Development Program (UNDP): The UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
United Nations World Food Program (WFP): The world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.

World Bank

World Trade Organization (WTO) 
WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
World Trade Organization SPS Information Management System
World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade

World Health Organization 

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): Seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), an alliance of 64 governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations. 

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR): A strategic alliance of members, partners and international agricultural centers that mobilizes science to benefit the poor.

Regional Organizations

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA): A specialized agency of the Inter-American System, and its purposes are to encourage and support the efforts of its member states to achieve agricultural development and well-being for rural populations.

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): Create an environment for the safe and efficient movement of goods, services and people across borders in the region through policy alignment and economic and technical cooperation.
 

African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA): Offers tangible incentives for African countries to continue their efforts to open their economies and build free markets.

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA): An organization of free independent sovereign states which have agreed to cooperate in developing their natural and human resources for the good of all their people' and as such it has a wide-ranging series of objectives which necessarily include in its priorities the promotion of peace and security in the region.