Research agencies

• Green Globe Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development The web pages contain key information on the most important international agreements on environment and development, IGOs and NGOs working in this area, and environmental data on OECD countries. The paper version of the Yearbook is produced by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway, and published by Oxford University Press.
• The Interuniversity Institute (INU) serves as a point of "exchange about the issues of cooperation between living civilizations (Western, Arabo-Islam, Hindustani and Chinese) as well as issues of globalization."
• Centre of African Studies (CAS) "provides an entry point for those interested in finding out more about the University of Edinburgh's wide-ranging activities in teaching, researching and consulting on African matters. The University is Scotland's leading centre for Africa-related work across a range of disciplines including anthropology, veterinary medicine, education, law and divinity."
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). "International research centers (IARCS), supported by the CGIAR, are located in 12 developing and 3 developed countries. They specialize in strategic research in food and agriculture, forestry, agro-forestry, fisheries and food policy. They place equal emphasis on productivity research and natural resource management. They jointly employ some 1,000 scientists of 60 different nationalities who are working at the centers or in over 200 locations in 40 developing countries, of which 8 are members of the CGIAR."
• Overseas Development Council (ODC). "ODC is a private, non-profit international policy research institute that seeks to inform and improve the multilateral approaches and institutions--both global and regional--that will play increasingly important roles in the promotion of development and the management of related problems. This site provides information about our Program of Independent Multilateral Research, U.S. Program, and archive of our publications and links to other resources on development."
• Centre for International University Co-operation "manages international cooperative programmes within research and education, and supports joint action among Norwegian universities and colleges on issues of internationalization."
• RAWOO - Advisory Council for Scientific Research in Development Problems
• Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

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