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| ACIAR | Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research |
| Alliance | Alliance for Agricultural Research and Development for Food Security – a joint initiative between ACIAR, the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and the Crawford Fund |
| APAARI | Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions |
| ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| CAADP | Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme |
| CABI | Centre for Agricultural Biosciences International |
| CGIAR | now identified by the initialism, but formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research – a global organisation of funders and international agricultural research centres |
| CIMMYT | International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center |
| COVID-19 | a highly infectious disease, primarily affecting the lungs, caused by a new strain of coronavirus. ‘CO’ stands for corona, ‘VI’ for virus, and ‘D’ for disease. Formerly, this disease was referred to as ‘2019 novel coronavirus’ or ‘2019-nCoV’. |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| CultiAF | Cultivate Africa’s Future Fund |
| DFAT | Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| G20 | an international forum for global economic cooperation, based on its membership of 19 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States) and the European Union |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| IDRC | International Development Research Centre (Canada) |
| LIFE | Livelihood Improvement through Facilitator Extension |
| MERS | Middle East respiratory syndrome |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PCAARRD | Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development |
| PSM | Public Service Medal |
| SARS | severe acute respiratory syndrome |
| SDIP | Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio |
| SFSA | Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture |
| SPC | The Pacific Community – the principal scientific and technical organisation supporting development in the Pacific region; an international organisation established by treaty (the Canberra Agreement) in 1947 |
| TADEP | Transformative Agriculture and Enterprise Development program |
| UN | United Nations |
| WorldVeg | World Vegetable Center |