Agriculture, Fisheries → Crops
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Organizations relating to Crops
People and Plants International / Bristol VT, USA / Est. 1992
Sustainable Harvest International / Ellsworth ME, USA / Est. 1997
CABI Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops / Est. 1929
CAB International Bureau of Pastures and Field Crops / Est. 1929
International Symposium on Crop Protection / Ghent, Belgium
Agreement on the Implementation of a European Telecommunications Project on the Topic: Aerials with Reduced First Side-lobes and Maximum G/T Yield / Est. 1971
ASEAN Crops Post-Harvest Programme / Est. 1977
ASEAN Fisheries Postharvest Technology Centres Network
Caribbean Post Harvest Technology Network / St Augustine, Trinidad-Tobago
Global Post-Harvest Forum / Est. 1999
World Crops Livestock International
Southern and East African Network on Underutilized Crops / Est. 1995
Asian Centre for Underutilized Crops
CropLife Latin America / San José, Costa Rica / Est. 1977
The James Hutton Institute / Aberdeen, UK / Est. 2011
World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fishworkers / Kampala, Uganda / Est. 1997
Inga Foundation / Evington VA, USA
AgroCare Latinoamérica
CropLife Africa Middle East / Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire / Est. 1980
Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops / Parlier CA, USA / Est. 1979
Asociación Latinoamericana para el Desarrollo del Seguro Agropecuario / Santa Fé, Argentina / Est. 1986
Australasian Postharvest Conference
International Society of Root Research / Jülich, Germany / Est. 1982
Global Crop Diversity Trust / Bonn, Germany / Est. 2003
International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance / Geneva, Switzerland / Est. 2002
Caribbean Food Crops Society / Mayagüez, Puerto Rico / Est. 1963
Rikolto / Leuven, Belgium / Est. 1980
FAO-CIHEAM Network on Pastures and Forage Crops / Alcázar de San Juan, Spain / Est. 1978
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics / Patancheru, India / Est. 1972
CropLife International / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 1967
Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region / Cairo, Egypt / Est. 1965
Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in South-West Asia / Rome, Italy / Est. 1964
European Crop Care Association / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 1993
AgroCare / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 2008
CropLife Europe / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 1992
View all profiles (104 total) in the Yearbook of International Organizations
World Problems relating to Crops
From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human PotentialGap in agricultural technology among countries
Acariasis
Undeveloped pasture cropping
Insufficient farm experiments
Overexploitation of underground water resources
Health hazards of air pollution for plants
Cultivation of illegal drugs
Crop vulnerability
Monopolization of agricultural genetic resources
Unsafe genetically modified food
Unsustainable exploitation of fish resources
Declining breeds of cultivated plants
Harmful carbon dioxide impact on agriculture
Adverse effects of high-yield grain in traditional agricultural settings
Decline in food production
Overdependence on few crop species
Cannabis crops
Inadequate farm crop diversity
Vulnerability of crops to weather
Pesticide damage to crops
Fumigant damage to crops
Underuse of high productivity methods of agricultural management
Environmental exigencies in tropical villages
Unsustainable harvesting rates
Spoilage of agricultural products
Action Strategies relating to Crops
From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human PotentialHarvesting
Increasing crop diversity
Growing narcotic crops
Breeding disease-resistant plants
Using hedgerow intercropping
Using relay cropping systems
Harvesting wild resources sustainably
Assessing biotechnologies for improving yields for aquatic species
Assessing potential of underutilized crops
Increasing availability of plant materials for afforestation
Improving capacity for crop planning
Intercropping
Planning integrated food plant nutrient programmes
Improving environmentally sound methods for forest harvesting
Improving intermediate yields on investments in planted forests
Increasing efficiency of agricultural water use
Improving fish yields in inland waters using environmentally sound management methods
Curtailing drug plant growing by offering alternative livelihoods
Providing data on crops
Developing environmental risk assessment for genetically modified crops
Producing resins
Using agroecology
Developing pesticide and herbicide tolerant crops
Developing transgenic crops
Enabling continuous multiple harvests
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