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Collaborating Agencies
 Agricultural
Issues Center
Bibliotheca
Alexandrina
CAMBIA
Center
for Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Centre
for International Economic Studies
Consortium
on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences
International
Food Policy Research Institute
International
Rice Research Institute
Agricultural Issues Center, University of California
For 15 years, the Center has served as a forum where important and often controversial
trends and issues involving California agriculture—ranging from water transfers
to international trade—have been identified, studied and debated. The Center
makes its findings available to policymakers, to government agencies, to interest
groups and to individuals through a continuing series of conferences, workshops,
in-depth and popular publications, videos and its website.
http://aic.ucdavis.edu/
Bibliotecha Alexandrina
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina , the New Library of Alexandria, is dedicated to recapture
the spirit of the original. It aspires to be:
• The World’s window on Egypt;
• Egypt’s window on the world;
• A leading institution of the digital age; and above all
• A center for learning, tolerance, dialogue and understanding.
http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx
CAMBIA
CAMBIA is an international, independent non-profit research institute pioneering
Open Source Biotechnology and Patent Informatics.
For more than a decade, CAMBIA has been creating new tools and enabling technologies
to foster innovation and a spirit of collaboration in the life sciences. In Spanish
and Italian, CAMBIA means "change". This meaning is at the very heart
of CAMBIA's mission.
http://www.cambia.org/daisy/cambia/home.html
Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy,
University of Minnesota
The Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy fosters understanding of
the role of science and technology in our society, particularly relationships
to economic growth, health, the environment, education, and national security.
http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/stpp/
Center for International Economic Studies, University
of Adelaide
The Centre for International Economic Studies (CIES) was established in 1989 by
the School of Economics of the University of Adelaide to strengthen teaching and
research in the field of international economics and closely related disciplines.
Theoretical and empirical, policy-oriented studies are emphasised.
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/cies/
Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environmental
& the Life Sciences, University of Minnesota
The Consortium links 17 leading centers and programs at the University of Minnesota
to address the legal, ethical, and policy implications of the life sciences.
http://www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu/
International Food Policy Research Institute
IFPRI’s vision is a world free of hunger and malnutrition. The vision is
based on the human right to adequate food and nutrition and recognition of the
inherent dignity of all members of the human family. It is a world where every
person has secure access to sufficient and safe food to sustain a healthy and
productive life and where decisions related to food are made transparently and
with the participation of consumers and producers.
http://www.ifpri.org/
International Rice Research Institute
Rice Science for a Better World: IRRI is a nonprofit agricultural research and
training center established to improve the well-being of present and future generations
of rice farmers and consumers, particularly those with low incomes. It is dedicated
to helping farmers in developing countries produce more food on limited land using
less water, less labor, and fewer chemical inputs, without harming the environment.
http://www.irri.org/
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