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Here is a list covering a number of organizations.

Department of Agriculture (USDA)
bulletList of departments of agriculture World-Wide
bulletCSREES Funding Page
bulletUSDA FAS - Grant Page (world wide and comprehensive!)

Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service

bulletU.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center (Hilo, HI)
bulletNational Clonal Germplasm Laboratory (Hilo, HI)
bulletSubtropical Horticulture Research Station (SHRS-Miami, Fl)
bulletTropical Agricultural Research Station (TARS-Puerto Rico)

Department of Education (USDOE)

Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)

National Sea Grant Home Page

bulletPacific Sea Grant Organizations

U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs (good fact sheets on the American Pacific)

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

bulletThe Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development (works with AID-funded projects)
bulletCollaborative Research Support Programs (CRSP, 9 projects of international scope)

U.S. Government Agency Listing

 

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Non-Government Agencies in the U.S.

ACDI/VOCA (private, non profit group that supports agriculture world wide-USAID funded)

Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE, network of communication professionals)

American Distance Education Consortium (A*DEC)

Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA, funded by USDA is a non-profit that develops informational tools and provides technical assistance for rural areas)

National Extension Technology Conference (NETC)

Land Grant Training Alliance (free on-line computer software lessons)

Management of Organic Inputs in Soils of the Tropics (MOIST, at Cornell)

Micronesian and South Pacific Program (U of Oregon)

National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC)

bulletESCOP / ACOP Leadership Development Program
bulletTheir list of very useful education and information site list

Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC)

Pacific Basin Development Council (PBDC)

Pacific Business Center Program
(PBCP)

Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP at the East West Center)

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)

Pan-Pacific Education and Communication Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT)

Regional Technology in Education Consortia (R*TEC)

South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)
Mission Statement:
To improve the well being of the peoples of Pacific Island member countries through the application of geoscience to the management and sustainable development of their non-living resources

Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment (SPaRCE)

Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture Research (T-STAR)

University of Puerto Rico

University of the Virgin Islands

Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors (WAAESD)

W.K. Kellogg Foundation


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