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.