IAPAD - Integrated Approach to Particiaptory Development

IAPDA acts as focal point for sharing information and technical progress on community-based mapping and Public Participation GIS (PPGIS). The website provides ample documentation on Participatory 3D Modelling (P3DM), an efficient tool for merging indigenous technical knowledge and traditional spatial information. P3DM applications include community-based natural resources management, collaborative research and planning, resource use, control and tenure, and related conflict management.

The International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP), founded in 1989, is a nonprofit Association devoted to understanding and improving institutions for the management of environmental resources that are (or could be) held or used collectively by communities in developing or developed countries. The Association's Goals are:

• to encourage exchange of knowledge among diverse disciplines, areas, and resource types;
• to foster mutual exchange of scholarship and practical experience; and,
• to promote appropriate institutional design.
  

IATP - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

IATP promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.

ICARDA - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

Established in 1977, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is one of the 15 centers strategically located all over the world and supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). With its main research station and offices based in Aleppo, Syria, ICARDA works through a network of partnerships with national, regional and international institutions, universities, non-governmental organizations and ministries in the developing world; and with advanced research institutes in industrialized countries.

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non-profit, non-political, international organization for science-based agricultural development. ICRISAT conducts research on sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut - crops that support the livelihoods of the poorest of the poor in the semi-arid tropics encompassing 48 countries. ICRISAT also shares information and knowledge through capacity building, publications and ICTs. Established in 1972, it is one of 15 Centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

ICT Update

A current awareness bulletin for ACP agriculture.

IDRC is a Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.

A global movement of over one million small-scale producers and workers organized in as many as 3,000 grassroots organizations and their umbrella structures in over 50 countries in the South.

IFDC - International Fertilizer Development Centre

IFDC is a public, nonprofit, international organization, which was founded in 1974 to assist in the quest for global food security.  The Center's goal is to increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable manner through the development and transfer of effective, environmentally sound plant nutrient technology and agricultural marketing expertise.  IFDC conducts its work independently and on a scientifically sound basis.

IFSA - International Farming System Association

IFSA is a global association, incorporated as a non-profit educational corporation in the Philippines, with an international membership consisting of individual researchers and  practitioners and various regional associations and networks involved in farming systems related work around the world.  The Association's primary function is to foster and support the growing number of regional farming systems associations and networks.

IIIRM is a law and policy research institute. Established in Denver, Colorado in 1997, the Institute's cadre of internationally-based legal scholars and researchers work on cutting-edge projects designed to empower native peoples by examining the role the law can play in establishing and enhancing indigenous peoples' control over and management of their lands and resources.

The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) is a rural development organization with 80 years experience, working in Africa, Asia and Latin America. They promote people-centered development through capacity building for poor people and their communities, development organizations and agencies.

IISD contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and assessment , and natural resources management. By using Internet communications, we report on international negotiations and broker knowledge gained through collaborative projects with global partners, resulting in more rigorous research, capacity building in developing countries and better dialogue between North and South.

ILS - International Land Systems, Inc

ILS specializes in creating customized software and Internet solutions for geospatial and land-based applications, such as Title Registration Systems, Deeds Recording Systems and Land Information Systems (LIS).

IMF - International Monetary Fund

The IMF is an organization of 184 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty.

This website opens a gateway to development approaches that rely on traiditonal knowledge systems to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The goals of the website are: (a) to raise awareness ont he role that community-based practices can play in enriching the development process; and (b) to help development practitioners to mainstream indigenous/traditional knowledge into the activities of developmetn partners and to optimize the benefits of development assistance, especially to the poor.

A not-for-profit organisation that fosters public-domain sharing of information on sustainable development and poverty reduction

The Alliance aims to assist the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to strengthen Real Property Rights, in compliance with the agreement signed by the Presidents of the various countries of the Region during the Presidential Summit held in Monterrey, Mexico in January of this year. Through this, you can keep up to date with what is happening in the newly formed Inter-American Alliance for Accountability on Real Property Rights and how it will help achieve our Summit goals.

INTERACTION - American Council for Voluntary Action

Works to overcome poverty, exclusion and suffering by advancing social justice and basic dignity for all.

International Agri-Food Network

AgriFood Innovations is a leading thought and risk partner focused on technology innovations. Our core expertise lies in the following industry sectors: (Agriculture, Food, Biotechnology).

INTRAC - International NGO Training and Research Center

INTRAC supports non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations around the world by exploring policy issues, and strengthening management and organisational effectiveness.

Ipalmo is a research institute focused on international policy and economy, and on economic and cultural cooperation at inter-regional level and between countries with different development levels. Ipalmo is a non-profit organization.

IPC is a global network of NGOs/CSOs concerned with food sovereignty issues and programs. It includes social organizations representing small farmers, fisher folk, indigenous peoples, agricultural workers' trade unions; sub-regional/regional NGOs/CSOs which act as regional focal points; and NGO networks with particular expertise and a long history of lobbying and action and advocacy on issues related to food sovereignty and agriculture, which act as thematic focal points.

The International Research Foundation for Development is an autonomous, nonpartisan, transnational organization composed of an international community of contemplative thinkers, policy makers, practitioners, and laypersons who are making a concerted effort to improve the quality of life at various levels of the world. The foundation was established in 1993 and has achieved the status of a public foundation. This transnational foundation operates within its special category of consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations as specified in the UN Charter Article 71.

IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. We work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.

The knowledge field of ITC is geo-information science and earth observation , which consists of a combination of tools and methods for the collection - through aerospace survey techniques -, storage and processing of geo-spatial data, for the dissemination and use of these data and of services based on these data.

IUCN - World Conservation Union

IUCN is a unique Union. Its members from some 140 countries include over 70 States, 100 government agencies, and 750-plus NGOs. More than 10,000 internationally-recognised scientists and experts from more than 180 countries volunteer their services to its six global commissions.