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The Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture - AIRCA

Overview
The Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA, www.airca.org) was formed in 2012 by 9 international agricultural research and development centers (see below), each with extensive expertise in many geographic regions (>60 member countries comprising over 70% of world population) as well as in a range of agricultural crops. One of the objectives of AIRCA is to combine resources in order to contribute to healthy, sustainable and climate-smart landscapes which improve smallholders income and diets, as well as increases global food security.

AIRCA's Vision & Mission
Vision: Healthy landscapes for improved livelihoods and food security Mission: Putting research into use by strengthening capacities for sustainable improvements to incomes, food and nutrition security in healthy landscapes

AIRCA Members

 * AVRDC http://www.avrdc.org/
 * CABI http://www.cabi.org/
 * CATIE http://catie.ac.cr/
 * CFF http://www.cffresearch.org/
 * ICBA http://www.biosaline.org/
 * ICIMOD http://www.icimod.org/
 * ICIPE http://www.icipe.org/
 * IFDC http://www.ifdc.org/
 * INBAR http://www.inbar.int/

AIRCA Contacts
AIRCA Chairman: Dr Dyno Keatinge, AVRDC, dyno.keatinge@worldveg.org AIRCA Executive Secretary: Marita Dieling, mdieling@airca.org