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Jamaican Science Research Council

The SRC is Jamaica's primary agency for fostering Jamaican research and promoting its applications. It runs seven research units, from microbiology to wastewater management,  and offers services ranging from training to tissue culture and laboratory analyses. The SRC website hosts four databases: the skills bank, plant gene bank, plant information, and library collection.

Practical Action

Practical Action (formerly known as The Intermediate Technology Development Group) is a non-governmental organisation that specialises in promoting the development and use of technologies which address the needs of poor communities in developing countries. Practical Action works directly in four regions of the developing world – Latin America, East Africa, Southern Africa and South Asia and focuses on the development of appropriate technologies in food production, agroprocessing, energy, transport, small enterprise development, shelter, small-scale mining and disaster mitigation.