Our list of relevant acronyms is long. To jump to a section of the alphabet, use these links to go directly to that part of this page:
A, B, C
AC, ACF – Advocacy Coalitions, Advocacy Coalitions Framework
ACT – African Conservation Tillage network
ADRA – Adventist Development and Relief Agency International, Title II USAID
AgNIC – Agriculture Network Information Center
AOTR – USAID Agreement Officer's Technical Representative
ASABE – American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
ASARECA – Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa
ASFADA – Arabuko Sokoke Forest Adjacent Dwellers Association
ASTER – Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
AT – Appropriate Technology, Haiti
AVRDC – World Vegetable Center (formerly Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center)
BA – Bridging Activity
BAP – Bolivian Andean Platform
BARC – Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council
BENRO – Bukidnon Environment and Natural Resource Office
BIFAD – Board for International Food and Agricultural Development
BMP – Best Management Practice
BOD – Board of Directors
CAPRi CGIAR – Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights
CAPS – Conservation Agriculture Production Systems
CARDI – Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute
CARPE – Central African Regional Program for the Environment
CAS – Complex Adaptive Systems
CATIE – Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza
CCRA – Cross-Cutting Research Activity
CEFS – Center for Environmental Farming Systems
CERES – Center for the Study of Economic and Social Reality
CF, CFU – Conservation Farming, Conservation Farming Unit
CGIAR – Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
CI – Conservation International; Complementarity Index
CIAT – Centro Internacional de Agrocultura Tropical, Ecuador
CIDES – Centro de Investigaciones del Desarrollo Económico y Social
CIFOR – Center for International Forestry Research
CIMMYT – International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
CIP – Centro Internacional de la Papa (International Potato Center)
CIPCA – Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado
CIRAD – Centre de Cooperation International en Recherche Agronomique pour le Development, National University of Lesotho
CIRNMA – Centro de Investigación de Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente
COMACO – Community Markets for Conservation
CONAFOR – National Forest Commission of Mexico
CPA – Community Participatory Assessments
CRC – Collaborating Research Centers
CRSP – Collaborative Research Support Program
CSO – Civil Society Organization
CTC – Community Trading Center
CTO – USAID’s Cognizant Technical Officer
D, E, F, G, H, I
DABAR – Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Agricultural Research, the Philippines
DEM – Digital Elevation Model
DLSU – de la Salle Université, Philippines
DRIFT – Diffuse Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Analysis
EEP – External Evaluation Panel
EA – Environmental Assessment
EAP – External Assessment Panel
ECOCIENCIA – Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Ecológicos
ECOPAR – Corporación para la Investigación, Capacitación y Apoyo Técnico para el Manejo Sustentable de los Ecosistemas Tropicales
EGAT – USAID Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade
EGAT/NRM – EGAT’s Office of Natural Resources Management
ERP – External Review Panel
ESPOCH – Escuela Superior Politcnica de Chimborazo, Ecuador
ESRI – Environmental Systems Research Institute
FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FFH – Food for the Hungry, Title II USAID
FY – Fiscal Year
GAIA – Grupo Autónomo para la Investigación Ambiental
GDSS – Global Decision Support System
GEA – Grupo de Estudios Ambientales
GEF – Global Environment Facility
GIS – Geographic Information System
GMO – Genetically Modified Organisms
GPB – Gobierno de la Provincia de Bolivar, Ecuador
GPS – Global Positioning System
GRA – Graduate Research Assistant
HEPS – High Energy Protein Supplement
IAD – Institutional Analysis and Development Framework
IASC – International Association for the Study of the Commons
IARC – International Agricultural Research Center
ICM – Integrated Crop Management
ICRAF – International Centre for Research in Agroforestry
ICRISAT – International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics
IDE – International Development Enterprise
IEE – Initial Environmental Evaluation
IER – Istitut d’Economie Rurale du Mali
IFPRI – International Food Policy Research Institute
IFRI – International Forestry Resources and Institutions
IITA – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
INIAP – Instituto Nacional Autónomo de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Ecuador
IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPM – Integrated Pest Management
IPNI – International Plant Nutrition Institute
IPPS – El Instituto de la Pequeña Producción Sustentable
IRB – Institutional Review Board
IRPC – International Rural Poultry Centre
IRRI – International Rice Research Institute
ISU – Iowa State University
K, L, M, N, O
KACOFA – Kapchorwa Commercial Farmers Association
KASAP – knowledge, attitudes, skills, aspirations, practices
KENDAT – Kenyan Network for Dissemination of Appropriate Technology
KEFRI – Kenya Forestry Research Institute
KSU – Kansas State University
K2A – Knowledge to Action
LFPI – Landcare Foundation of the Philippines, Incorporated
LGU – Local Government Unit
LRT – Local Research Team
LRMT – Land Resources Management Team (EGAT/NRM)
LTRA Long-Term Research Award
LWA – Leader With Associates
MAPA – Market Access and Poverty Alleviation Project, USAID
MARD – Ministry of Agricultural Research and Development
ME – Management Entity
MHAC – Manor House Agricultural Center
MM – Manupali Model
MOSCAT- Misamis Oriental State College of Agriculture and Technology
MOU – Memorandum Of Understanding
MRV – Measurement, reporting, and verification
MSI – Minority-Serving Institution
NAC – National Advisory Council, National Advisory Committee
NARS – National Agricultural Research Service
NCA&T – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
NCEAS – National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
NCI – Net Complementarity Index
ND – Newcastle disease
NEPAD – New Partnership for Africa’s Development
NGO – Non-Governmental Organization
NIR – Near Infrared
NLU – Nong Lam University, Vietnam
NPCC – Native Plant Conservation Campaign
NPVP – Native Potato Varieties Program
NRC – National Research Council
NRM – Natural Resource Management
OIA – Outreach and International Affairs (at Virginia Tech)
OIRED – Office of International Research, Education, and Development
OSIENALA – Friends of Lake Victoria
OUAT – Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology
P, Q, R, S
PA – Participatory Appraisal
PADAC – Projet d’Appui au Developpement de l’Agriculture du Cambodge
PAR – Participatory Action Research
PERSUAP – Pesticide Evaluation Report Safe Use Action Plan
PEN – Poverty and Environment Network (at CIFOR)
PES – Payments for Environmental Services
PFM – Participatory Forest Management
PI – Principal Investigator
PMCA – Participatory Market Chain Approach
PNCC – Programa Nacional de Cambios Climáticos
POP – Policy and Operating Procedures
PPE – Personal Protection Equipment
PR – Participatory Research
PRA – Participatory Rural Appraisal
PROINPA – Promoción e Investigación de Productos Andinos
PROMIC – Programa Manejo Integral de Cuencas
PWES – Payments for Watershed Environmental Services
RA – Research Assistant
RFA – Research for Application
RHA – Rapid Hydrologic Assessment
RMA – Rapid Market Appraisal
RUA – Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia
RUP – Restricted Use Products
RUPES – Rewarding Upland Poor for Environmental Services project
SA – Sustainable Agriculture
SANREM – Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
SARI – Savanna Agricultural Research Institute
SEA – Southeast Asia
SENACYT – Secretaria Nacional de Ciencia y Technologia, Ecuador
SENAGUA – Secretaria Nacional del Agua, Ecuador
SENAMHI – Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología de Perú
SIGAGRO – Sistema de Información Geográfica Agropecuaria
SKB – SANREM Knowledgebase
SLDF – Sabaot Land Defense Force
SNA – Social Network Analysis
SO – Strategic Objectives
SOM – Soil Organic Matter
SRTM – Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
STC – Save the Children, Title II USAID
SWAT – Soil and Water Assessment Tool
SWCS – Soil and Water Conservation Society
T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
TC – SANREM CRSP Technical Committee
Title XII – Title XII Amendment to the International Development Food Assistance Act of 1975 and subsequent amendments
TraiNet – On-line USAID system for tracking training activities for foreign nationals)
TSBF – Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute
TULSEA – Tree on multi-Use Landscape in Southeast Asia project
UC – University of California; Universidad de la Cordillera
UConn – University of Connecticut
UED – Universidad Estatal de Bolivar, Ecuador
UFRIC – Uganda Forestry Resources and Institutions Center
UGA – University of Georgia
UMSA – Universidad Mayor San Andrés
UMSS – Universidad Mayor de San Simón
UNA – Universidad Nacional del Altiplano
UNALM – Universidad Nacional Agraria la Molina
UNAM – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
UNAM-IIS – Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
UNDP – United Nations Development Program
UNZA – University of Zambia
UPLB – University of the Philippines-Los Baños
USAID – United States Agency for International Development
USAID/W USAID’s Washington headquarters
USDA – United States Department of Agriculture
USGS – United States Geological Survey
VAF – Vegetable agroforestry
VT – Virginia Tech
WAC – World Agroforestry Center
WASWAC – World Association of Soil and Water Conservation
WCS – Wildlife Conservation Society
WFP – World Food Program
WVC – World Vegetable Center
ZAWA – Zambian Wildlife Authority