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Acronym

Original Meaning

C/LAA

Caribbean/Latin American Action

CAAS

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

CABA

Caribbean AgriBusiness Association

CABAPNET

Caribbean Banana and Plantain Network

CABEI

Central American Bank for Economic Integration

CABI

Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (United Kingdom)

CABI

Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International (UK)

CAC

Central American Council for Agriculture

CACC

Country Agricultural Consultation Consortium

CACHE

Caribbean Council for Higher Education in Agriculture

CADSWES

Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems

CAES

Caribbean Agro-Economic Society

CAF

Andean Development Corporation

CAGRIS

Caribbean Agricultural Information System

CAIS

Caribbean Agricultural Information Service

CAJIR

Inter-American Rural Youth Advisory Council

CAMAGRO

Chamber of Agriculture of El Salvador

CamBioTec

Canada-Latin America Initiative on Biotechnology for Sustainable Development

CAN/PGR

Central Asia Network on Plant Genetic Resources

CANARI

Caribbean Natural Resources Institute

CAP

Common Agricultural Policy

CAPGERNET

Caribbean Plant Genetic Resources Network

CAPM

Centre for Aquatic Plant Management

CARAPHIN

Caribbean Animal and Plant Health Information Network

CARCC

Caribbean Agricultural Research Coordinating Committee

CARDATS

Caribbean Agricultural Rural Development, Advisory and Training Service

CARDI

Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute

CARE

Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc.

CAREC

Caribbean Epidemiology Centre

CARICAD

Caribbean Centre for Development Administration

CARICOM

Caribbean Community

CARIFRUIT

Caribbean Tropical Fruit Network

CARINET

Caribbean Insect Network

CARIPEDA

Caribbean People's Development Agency

CARIRI

Caribbean Industrial Research Instiute

CARIS

Caribbean Agricultural Research Information System

CARIS

Current Agricultural Research Information System - FAO

CARISPLAN

Caribbean Information System for Economic and Social Planning

CAS

El Centro para Servicios Agricomerciales del Instituto

CASE

Co-operative Awards in the Sciences of the Environment

CASEP

Coastal Aquaculture and Enhanced Fisheries Program, International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management

CASRUNET

Caribbean Small Ruminants Network

CATCO

Caribbean Agricultural Trading Company Limited

CATIE

Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza (Costa Rica)

CATM

Chinese Agricultural Technical Mission

CAZRI

Central Arid Zone Research Institute (India)

CBC

Centro Bartolome de las Casas (Peru)

CBN

Cassava Biotechnology Network - CIAT

CBS

Centre for AgriBusiness Service

CCAA

Canadian Consulting Agronomists Association

CCAB-AP

Central American Council on Forests and Protected Areas

CCAC

Canadian Council on Animal Care

CCC

Comite de Mandioca do Ceara (Brazil)

CCER

Center-Commissioned External Review

CCMPGR

Caribbean Committee for the Management of Plant Genetic Resources

CCPAD

Caribbean Community Programme for Agricultural Development

CCRI

Central Cotton Research Institute (Pakistan)

CD-ROM

Compact disc-read only memory

CDB

Caribbean Development Bank

CDC

Centro para Demonstracion y Capacitacion

CDD

Caribbean Development Division

CDFA

California Department of Food and Agriculture

CDS/ISIS

Computerized Documentation System/ Integrated Sets of Information Systems

CEBEVIRHA

Communaute Economique du Betail de la Viande et des Ressources Halieutiques

CEC

Commission of the European Communities (Belgium)

CECI

Centre Canadien d'Etudes et de Cooperation Internationale

CECOACAM

Central de Cooperativas Agrarias de Canete y Mala (Peru)

CECORA

Central de Cooperativas de la Reforma Agraria Ltda. (Colombia)

CEDAF

Centro para el Desarrollo Agropecuario y Forestal

CEHI

Caribbean Environment Health Institute (St.Lucia)

CELOS

Centre for Agriculture Resource (Suriname)

CEMACO

Central Marketing Corporation (St.Kitts)

CEMAGREF

Centre National du Machinisme Agricole, du Genie Rural, des Eaux et des Forets (France)

CEMAPIF

Small Industry Forestry, Management and Utilization Center (Nicaragua)

CENA

Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture

CENARGEN

Centro Nacional de Recursos Geneticos (Brazil)

CENDES

Centro Nacional de Desarrollo (Ecuador)

CENIAP

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (Venezuela)

CENSA

National Centre for Animal and Plant Health

CENTA

Agricultural Technology Center (El Salvador)

CEPAT

Continuing Education Programme in Agricultural Technology

CERF

Centre d'Essais, de Recherche et de Formation (Reunion)

CERMES

Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies, University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago)

CES

Central Experiment Station (Trinidad and Tobago)

CESBIO

Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere (France)

CESO

Canadian Executive Services Association

CET

Common External Tariff

CETEC

Corporacion para Estudios Interdisciplinarios y Asesoria Tecnica (Colombia)

CEWRE

Center of Excellence in Water and Resources Engineering

CFC

Common Fund for Commodities - EU

CFC

Caribbean Food Corporation

CFCS

Caribbean Foods Crop Society

CFD

Caisse Francaise de Developpement (France)

CFF

Carambola Fruit Fly

CFNI

Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute

CFS

Canadian Forest Service

CFTC

Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation

CG

Consultative Group (USA)

CGA

Citrus Growers Association

CGIAR

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

CGN

Centre for Genetic Resources (Netherlands)

CGPRT

Regional Centre for Research and Development of Coarse Grain, Pulses, Roots and Tubers (Indonesia)

CI

Conservation International (USA)

CIAAB

Centro de Investigaciones Agricolas A. Boerger (Uruguay)

CIAT

Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical

CIB

Coffee Industry Board (Jamaica)

CIBC

CAB Institute of Biological Control (Trinidad and Tobago)

CICA

Centro de Investigacion en Cultivos Andinos (Peru)

CICY

Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas de Yucatan (Mexico)

CIDA

Canadian International Development Agency

CIDAE

Center for Integration and Agribusiness Development - IICA

CIED

Centro de Investigacion, Educacion y Desarrollo (Peru)

CIFOR

Centre for International Forestry Research - CGIAR (Indonesia)

CIGB

Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

CIHEAM

Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Mediterraneennes (France)

CIM

Intergovernmental Migration Committee

CIMA

Centre Ivorien du Machinisme Agricole

CIMMYT

Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (Mexico)

CIMPA

Animal Production Research Center (Dominican Republic)

CINS

Cooperazione Italiana Nord-Sud

CIP

Centro Internacional de la Papa

CIPMNET

Caribbean Integrated Pest Management Network

CIRAD

Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement (France)

CIRAD/FLHOR

Center for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development/ Fruit & Horticultural Production

CIRAD/SAR

Center for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development/Agri-food and Rural Systems

CIRDES

Centre International de Recherche-Developpement sur l'Elevage en Zone Subhumide (Burkina)

CIRED

Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Developpement (France)

CIRNMA

Centro de Investigacion de Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente (Peru)

CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

CIS-Madera

Centro de Innovacion y Servicios Tecnologicos de la Madera (Spain)

CLADES

Consorcio Latinoamericano de Agroecologia y Desarrollo

CLAFE

Canadian and Latin American Farmers' Exchanges Project

CLAN

Cereals and Legumes Asia Network - ICRISAT (India)

CLASAS

Canadian and Latin American Studies in Sciences Project

CLIMA

Center for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (Australia)

CMA / AOC

Conference of Ministers of Agriculture / West and Central Africa

CMDT

Compagnie Malienne pour le Developpement des Textiles (Mali)

CNATESC

Chinese National Agricultural Technology Extension and Service Centre

CNCQS

Chinese National Centre for Quality Supervision and Test of Feed

CNEVA

Centre National d'Etudes Veterinaires et Alimentaires (France)

CNIC

Centro Nacional de Ivestigaciones Cientificas (Cuba)

CNIRD

Caribbean Network for Integrated Rural Development

CNPF

Centro Nacional de Pesquita de Florestas

CNPH

Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Hortalicas (Brazil)

CNPMF

Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Mandioca e Fruticultura Tropical (Brazil)

CNRS

Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (France)

CNSF

Centre Nacional de Semences Forestieres

CODE

Canadian Organisation for Development through Education

CODEFORSA

San Carlos Commission for Forestry Development (Costa Rica)

COGENT

Coconut Genetic Resources Network

COHDEFOR

Honduran Corporation for Forestry Development

COLCIENCIAS

Instituto Colombiano para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia Francisco Jose de Caldas (Colombia)

COMTA

Comision Mesoamericana de Tecnologia Agricola

CONACYT

National Science and Technology Commission (Mexico)

CONCAFE

National Coffee Council (Nicaragua)

CONDESAN

Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion Cornell University (USA)

CORAF

Conference des Responsables de Recherche Agronomique Africains

CORBANA

Corporacion Bananera Nacional (Costa Rica)

CORBANA

Banana Development Corporation (Costa Rica)

CORECA

Regional Council for Agricultural Cooperation in Central America,Mexico and the Dominican Republic

CORPOICA

Corporacion Centro de Investigaciones Agropecuarias

COSAVE

Plant Protection Committee for the Southern Area

COST

European Collaboration in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research

COTESU

Cooperacion Tecnica Suiza (Switzerland)

CPAA

Centro de Pesquisa Agroforestal de la Amazonia (Brazil)

CPATSA

Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuaria do Tropico Semi-Arido (Brazil)

CPCRI

Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (India)

CPI

Conseil Phytosanitaire Interafricain - OAU

CPP

Caribbean Policy Project

CPP

Crop Protection Programme

CPRA

Centre de Perfectionnement et de Recyclage Agricole de Saida (Tunisia)

CPRI

Central Potato Research Institute (India)

CPRO

Centre for Plant Breeding and Reproduction Research

CPRO-DLO

Centre for Plant Breeding and Reproduction Research-Agriculture Research Department (Netherlands)

CPT

Country Project Team

CR

Country Representative

CRA

Caribbean Rice Association

CRAL

Centre de Recherches Agronomiques de Loudima (Congo)

CRBP

Centre de Recherches Regionales sur Bananiers et Plantains (Cameroon)

CRDA

Centre de Recherche et de Documentation Agricoles

CREI

Citrus Research and Education Institute

CRF

Coffee Research Foundation (Kenya)

CRI

Crops Research Institute

CRI

Coconut Research Institute (Sri Lanka)

CRIDA

Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (India)

CRIDNET

Caribbean Rice Industry Development Network

CRIES

Comprehensive Resource Inventory and Evaluation System

CRIFC

Central Research Institute for Food Crops (Indonesia)

CRIH

Central Research Institute for Horticulture (Indonesia)

CRIN

Caribbean Rice Improvement Network

CRITT

Centre de Recherche, d'Innovation et de Transfer de Technologie

CSIR

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Ghana)

CSIRO

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

CSL

Central Science Laboratory

CSP/MP

Caribbean Sheep Production and Marketing Project

CSPM

Caribbean Sheep Production and Marketing

CTA

Centre Technique de Cooperation Agricole et Rurale

CTAS

Caribbean Agricultural Technical Assistance Service

CTCRI

Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (India)

CTL

Country Team Leader

CTO

Caribbean Tourism Organization

CVC

Corporacion Autonoma Regional del Cauca (Colombia)

CWANA

Central and West Asia and North Africa

 

 

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