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Promotion and research of indigenous foods and food habits

• International Commission on the Anthropology of Food (ICAF)
• Food habits of NIGERIA and much more.......
• IndigenoVeg www.indigenoveg.org/
• Initiative for the Development of Indigenous Food-plants of Africa (IDIFA)
• ProNutrition www.pronutrition.org/
• African studies
• Network vegetable production in Africa
• African Resouce Centre for Indigenous Knowledge (ARCIK)

Institutions

• AGSNet, African Graduate Nutrition Students Network
  
• The Capacity Development in Food and Nutrition Working Group of the UNU
  
• SCN, Standing Committee on Nutrition
  
• IUNS, International Union of Nutritional Sciences
  
• The Mcknight Foundation
  
• IFPRI, International Food Policy Research Institute
  
• IPGRI, International Plant Genetic Resourche Institute
  
• FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization
  
• IFOAM Africa Organic Service Center
  
• The World Vegetable Center
• IWMI, International Water Management Institute, Research in Africa
  

Food Security:

• FAO, "The state of food insecurity in the world"
  
• Eldis, Gateway to development information
  

Agriculture

• CGIAR, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
  
• CIFOR, Center for Internationl Foresty Research
  
• ICARDA, International Center for Agricultuaral Research in the Dry Areas
  
• IITA, International Institue of Tropical Agriculture
  
• World Agro-Forestry Center

Crops

• ICRIS, International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
  
• WARDA, African Rice center
  
• CIMMYT, International Maize and Wheat Inpovment Center
  

Livestock

• ILRI, International Livestock Research Institute
  
• World Fish Center
  

Biodiversity

• South African National Biodiversity Institute
  
• UKabc: Sustaining Agricultural Biodiversity
  
• Botanical Society of South Africa.
  

Journals

• Africa's first online science Magazine
• African Journals Online
  

Statistics

• Eldis, development statistics
  

Databases

• FAOSTAT, Databases on Agriculture, Nutrition, Fisheries, Foresty, Food quality control
  
• African studies
  
• Barley, Millet, Tef, database
  
• Gramene; A Comparative Mapping Resource for Grains
  
• Maize database
  
• Food and Nutritionan Library 2.2
  
• Nar, Nucleic Acids, Research
  
• Nutrition Surveys and Assessment
  
• TIGR, The Institue for Genomic Research
  
• WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition
  

Created by Dr. Verena Raschke 2005 / Contact