The International Centre for Underutilised Crops (ICUC) has been an independent nonprofit scientific research institute that investigated, coordinated and supported research programmes towards increasing the productivity and use of what are termed underutilised crops—crops that have a potential to be cultivated and made useful on a significantly larger scale than they have been. Founded in 1989, the ICUC researched and promoted tropical, sub-tropical and temperate plants and plant-products, and operated in over 30 countries in a variety of partnership arrangements with international and local research groups, NGOs and private enterprises.
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