Networks

• The Global Horticulture Initiative (GlobalHort) is a worldwide program intended to foster more efficient and effective partnerships and collective action among the stakeholders. To be efficient, it is organized in a consortium, a group of a limited number of national and international institutions formally organized to collaborate in research, training, and technology-generating activities designed to meet mutually-agreed-upon objectives. Because the issues at stake transcend national and regional boundaries, the Global Horticulture Initiative is the first chance to target the global concerns carried by horticulture.
• The Indigenous Plant Use Forum, or better known as IPUF, was started to “promote the cultural, socio-economic and scientific benefits to be derived from the sustainable use of the southern African flora”. The annual symposia are unique, multicultural and multi-disciplinary events that serve as a meeting point for business people, academics, anthropologists, resource managers, conservationists, policy makers and anyone interested in the sustainable use of the southern African flora.
• The Island Food Community of Pohnpei is a non-profit chartered nongovernmental organization (NGO) in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. Its mission is to promote the production, consumption, local marketing, and if feasible export of locally grown island foods in order to regain the dignity of relying on home food production, attain a greater degree of food security for the state, rescue cultural values, and improved health of the people. Pohnpeian community participation and empowerment is the cornerstone of its work.