Centers/Programs associated with Yam Technology Development and Transfer

International

1. Bioversity International (formerly IPGRI and INIBAP)
2. CGIAR: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
3. DFID: Department for International Development (United Kingdom)
4. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: (Washington, US)
5. IFPRI: International Food Policy Research Institute(Washington D.C., US)
6. ISTRC: International Society for Tropical Root Crops
7. ITC:International Trade Center ()
8. MSHR: Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary(Ireland & US)
9. USAID: United States Aid for International Development()

Africa

1. ANADER: the National Agency for Rural Development in (Cote d’Ivoire)
2. ARCN: Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria(Abuja, Nigeria)
3. BIORACE: Resource Genetiques et Amelioration des Especes Animales et Vegetales (Benin)
4. CNRA: Centre National de Recherche Agronomique(Cote d’Ivoire)
5. CORAF/WECARD: Conseil ouest et centre africain pour la recherche et le développement agricoles / West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development
6. CSIR-CRI: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Crops Research Institute(Ghana)
7. CSIR-SARI:Council for Scientific and Industrial Researcg-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (Ghana)
8. IAR:Institute for Agricultural Research (Nigeria)
9. IFAD: International Fund for Agricultural Development(Kumasi, Ghana)
10. IITA: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture(Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia )
11. IRAD:Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Developpement (Cameroon)
12. NNASC: Nigerian National Agricultural Seeds Council, (Nigeria)
13. NSPRI: Nigerian Stored Products Research Institutes (Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria)
14. NRCRI:National Root Crops Research Institute (Umudike, Nigeria)

Asia

1. CTCRI : Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (Kerala, India)
2. IBRC: Iwate Biotechnology Resource Center (Iwate, Japan)
3. INRAB: Institut National des Recherches Agricoles du Benin (Benin)
4. JIRCAS:Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (Japan)
5. PGR: Plant Genetic Resources of Vietnam(Vietnam)

South America

1. CIAT: International Center for Tropical Agriculture (Cali, Colombia)
2. CORPOICA: Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation/ Corporacion Colombiana de Investigacion Agropecuraria(Caribia & Turipana, Colombia)

Europe

1. Crop Trust: (Bonn, Germany)
2. GORTA: Self-Help Africa (Dublin, Ireland)
3. NRI: National Resources Institute (Greenwich, UK)

North America

1. JGI Gold: Joint Genomes Institute Genome Online Database (California, US)
2. NSF: National Science Foundation(Arlington, VA, US)

Tropics

1. CePaCT: Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (Fiji)
2. CIRAD: Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement(Martinique & Guadeloupe)
3. INRA: L'Institut national de la recherche agronomique Antilles-Guyame)
4. SPYN: South Pacific Yam Network(Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu)
5. CNFA: Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture(Washington DC; Haiti)