Manages collaborative research programme in agriculture, forestry and fisheries. WWW site give information on programmes and organisational divisions.

Databases include:

(a) Tropical Bibliographic Information System (Tropis): index to a number of Japanese publications

(b) Tropical Slide Information System (TROSIS): slides on tropical agriculture

(c) Tropical Agriculture Research Optical Disk Information System (TRODIS): full text optical disk of grey literature on agriculture (mostly Asian countries)

(d) Library database