International institutes related to agriculture

International Agricultural Institutes – Reference Guide

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTES

Global Agricultural Research & Organizations

Total Agencies
30 Listed

1. International Organizations

Complete structural record of primary global agricultural bodies, established dates, and research centers.

S.No Full Form Name Abbr. Established Headquarters Country
1 Food and Agriculture Organization FAO 16 October 1945 Rome Italy
2 Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CGIAR 19 May 1971 Montpellier France
3 International Rice Research Institute IRRI 1960 Los Baños Philippines
4 International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center CIMMYT 1966 Texcoco Mexico
5 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ICRISAT 28 March 1972 Patancheru, Hyderabad India
6 International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ICARDA 1977 Beirut* Lebanon
7 International Potato Center CIP 1971 Lima Peru
8 International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI 1975 Washington, D.C. USA
9 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture IITA 1967 Ibadan Nigeria
10 International Livestock Research Institute ILRI 1994 Nairobi Kenya
11 International Water Management Institute IWMI 1985 Colombo Sri Lanka
12 Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture Bioversity-CIAT 2020 (CIAT 1967; Bioversity 1974) Rome & Cali Italy / Colombia
13 International Center for Tropical Agriculture CIAT 1967 Cali Colombia
14 Bioversity International Bioversity 1974 Rome Italy
15 Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry CIFOR-ICRAF 2022 (Merger) Bogor Indonesia
16 Center for International Forestry Research CIFOR 1993 Bogor Indonesia
17 World Agroforestry Centre (formerly International Centre for Research in Agroforestry) ICRAF 1978 Nairobi Kenya
18 WorldFish WorldFish 1977 Penang Malaysia
19 Africa Rice Center (formerly WARDA) AfricaRice 1971 Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire
20 World Vegetable Center (formerly AVRDC) WorldVeg 1971 Tainan Taiwan
21 International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology ICIPE 1970 Nairobi Kenya
22 Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research ACIAR 1982 Canberra Australia
23 SAARC Agriculture Centre SAC 1988 Dhaka Bangladesh
24 International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD 30 November 1977 Rome Italy
25 International Fertilizer Development Center IFDC 1974 Muscle Shoals, Alabama USA
26 CAB International CABI 1910 (as Imperial Bureau of Entomology) Wallingford United Kingdom
27 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – Cooperative Research Programme OECD-CRP 1961 Paris France
28 Global Crop Diversity Trust Crop Trust 2004 Bonn Germany
29 International Seed Testing Association ISTA 1924 Bassersdorf Switzerland
30 International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants UPOV 1961 Geneva Switzerland

Key Global Hubs

Geographic Focus: Core research facilities clustered globally by specific climatic zones.
Rome, Italy

FAO, IFAD, and Bioversity Headquarters base assets.

Nairobi, Kenya

Primary African hub managing ILRI, ICRAF, and ICIPE.

Bogor, Indonesia

Southeast Asian forestry & agroforestry hub (CIFOR-ICRAF).

Recent Strategic Mergers

CIFOR-ICRAF AllianceMerged 2022

Unifying global forestry research with world agroforestry assets.

Bioversity-CIAT AllianceMerged 2020

Combining tropical agriculture with plant biodiversity systems.

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