Instituto Nacional De Investigaciones Agropecuarias

INIAP has the mission to improve sustainable agricultural production in Ecuador through scientific research, the development, validation, and transference of innovative technologies. Many accessions and technologies from around the world are evaluated on the 13 Research Facilities located to cover the diversity in soils and climate that characterise the Ecuadorean environment. INIAP´s technical programs now, include factors affecting Climate Change, these are crop drought tolerance and the reduction in evolution of greenhouse gases (methane) from animal production.