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Web-Agri
"Web-Agri is the premier dedicated search engine in the area of agriculture and animal husbandry."

AGORA - Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (English, French, Spanish)
"The AGORA site provides access to over 500 journals from major scientific publishers in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA is available to students and researchers in qualifying not-for-profit institutions in eligible developing countries."

Agricultural Journals (General)
From science.komm

Agricultural Economics Journals
From science.komm

@griculture Online
Agriculture News, Discussion and Information

AgBioForum
The Fournal of Agrobiotechnology Management & Economics

AgEcon Search
Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
"A Full Text Library of Agricultural and Applied Economics Scholarly Literature"
"...collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development."
Maintained at the University of Minnesota by Magrath Library and the Department of Applied Economics.

Aggie Horticulture Network
Sections include: Aggie Horticulture ; Horticulture Database Server ; Extension Horticulture ; hortIPM ; Vegetable Improvement Center ; Master Gardener Server ; Aggie Spuds ; Junior Master Gardner ; Webtutor ; WWW-Horticulture ; Phytochemicals ; Horticulture Server.
- Texas A&M University System

Agricultural Biotechnology and the Poor
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) publication

Agricultural Biotechnology in Europe (ABE)
"This web site is a gateway to sites in many European countries where ABE is active, as well as other websites with useful information about agricultural biotechnology."

Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)
"...compiles, processes, and makes available internationally comparable data on institutional developments and investments in agricultural R&D worldwide, and analyzes and reports on these trends in the form of occasional policy digests for research policy formulation and priority setting purposes. The project involves a large amount of original and ongoing survey work focused on developing countries, but also maintains access to relevant data for developed countries produced by the OECD Science and Technology Indicators unit, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and other similar agencies."
Sections include: ASTI Databases ; Country Profiles ; Publications.
From CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

Agriculture Online

American Medical Association - CSA [Council on Scientific Affairs] Reports

APSnet
Plant Pathology Online
American Phytopathological Society

Arid Lands Newsletter
 Published by The Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona.
ISSN 1092-5481

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

Beyond Discovery
The Path from Research to Human Benefit
"...is a series of articles that trace the origins of important recent technological and medical advances. Each story reveals the crucial role played by basic science, the applications of which could not have been anticipated at the time the original research was conducted."
Subjects include: Agriculture ; Biology ; Chemistry ; Earth Sciences ; Environmental Issues ; Health ; Mathematics ; Physics ; Technology.

California Agriculture Magazine - (dead link)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace [Events]

  • Liberalizing Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries (September 2002)
    "...a meeting to discuss the liberalization of agricultural trade, an issue critical both to the success of WTO Doha Round negotiations and to the development prospects of many poor countries and people.."

CGIAR online
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
"The CGIAR's research agenda focuses on both strategic and applied research. This agenda includes the entire range of problems affecting agricultural productivity and links these problems to broader concerns about poverty reduction, sustainable management of natural resources, protection of biodiversity, and rural development. More than 8,500 CGIAR scientists and scientific staff conduct research to improve the productivity of tropical agriculture. This research focuses on higher-yielding food crops and more productive livestock, fish, and trees; improved farming systems that are environmentally benign; better policies; and enhanced scientific capacities in developing countries."

Collection on Critical Global Issues
"The Collection on Critical Global Issues 2.0 was developed in 1999 by United Nations University Press. It contains 210 publications (32,000 pages) in the fields of Agriculture and Land Management, Development, Environment and Sustainability, Food and Nutrition, Natural Resource Development, Science and Technology."
The United Nations University

Consumers Union
Publishers of Consumer Reports

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA)
"...is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have selected the titles in this collectionfor their historical importance. Their evaluations and 4,500 core titles are detailed in the seven volume series The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, Wallace C. Olsen, series editor."
Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University

Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development

  • Alternatives to Conventional Modern Agriculture for Meeting World Food Needs in the Next Century: Report of a Conference on Sustainable Agriculture - (dead link) [.pdf]
    Bellagio, Italy, April 1999

Cornell University Library - Windows on the Past
"...is a grouping of selected historical materials which have been digitally scanned and are available for on-line browsing and searching."
Sections include: Historic Monographs Collection ; Historic Math Book Collection ; New York State Historical Literature ; International Women's Periodicals [restricted to Cornell University community] ; Ezra Cornell Papers ; Witchcraft Collection ; NEH Agriculture Collection ; Other Digital Collections.

The Diary of Jared Nash
"...two years (1745 and 1746) in the life of a Connecticut subsistence farmer and his family. The diary is extensively annotated with information on the life of the times, farming, and the characters mentioned."
By Jack Sanders

Economic Perspectives
An Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State

Electronic Journal: Livestock Research for Rural Development

EnviroWindows
Environmental Information for Business and Local Authorities

European Foundation - Sustainable Development

Evolution of Crop Plants
An excellent course page by Paul Gepts, UC, Davis with online images and lecture notes

Farmers' Declaration on Genetic Engineering in Agriculture

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Historical Publications of the Agricultural Experiment Station
Kansas State University
"...They are included here as a matter of historical interest. The Agricultural Experiment Station published hundreds of circulars, bulletins, and other publications (for a total of more than 24,000 pages) before 1946."


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Human Rights Watch Reports

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

  • Publications
    • Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems Agroecosystems
       "This analysis determines the extent of agricultural land use and assesses the status of agroecosystems on a global basis. The report is the most comprehensive mapping of global agriculture to date. It also shows ways to better understand and monitor changes in the capacity of the systems to provide sustainable goods and services."
      By Stanley Wood, Kate Sebastian and Sara J. Scherr

International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD)

International Society for Ecology and Culture
"Promoting locally based alternatives to the global consumer culture"

  • Online Articles - (dead link) (brief sample)
    • Bringing the Food Economy Home
      By Helena Norberg-Hodge and Steven Gorelick
      Originally published as "Think Global...Eat Local" in the September 2002 issue of The Ecologist.

KingCorn.org
Corn Grower's Guidebook - Publications Database
"This chapter of the Corn Growers' Guidebook contains hundreds of links to on-line publications that address nearly every agronomic aspect of producing a corn crop. The publications are categorized into broad topic areas."
By Dr. R.L. (Bob) Nielsen, Dept. of Agronomy, Purdue University

National Academy Press (free online versions)

National AgLaw Reporter
"A web-based newsletter from the National Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information of the University of Arkansas School of Law."

National Drought Mitigation Center
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • Drought Monitor
    "...a synthesis of multiple indices, outlooks and news accounts, that represents a consensus of federal and academic scientists."

Nature

  • Web Focus: GM Crops: Time to Choose (October 2003)
    "In some countries, transgenic plants are already a part of mainstream farming. Will the rest of the world soon follow suit?" Sections include: News ; UK GM Debates ; Farm-Scale Evaluations.

Nature Reviews Genetics

Official Mad Cow Disease Home Page
"7,651+ articles on mad cow and new variantCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prions, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, BSE, CJD, CWD, TME, and TSE."

Organicfood.co.uk
Online organic lifestyle magazine

Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook (English or Spanish)
"The University of Minnesota's electronic textbook of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) featuring contributed chapters by internationally recognized experts."

RAND Publications

The Real Green Revolution:
Organic and Agroecological Farming in the South
By Nicholas Parrott & Terry Marsden, Cardiff University, GB, 2002, Published by Greenpeace Environmental Trust.
"...critically analyzes the potential of organic agriculture in the South. Includes many case studies. The authors conclude that organic agriculture is in fact a viable option for the South."

The Royal Society (UK)

Rural Conditions and Trends Magazine
Economic Research Service, USDA

Safeguarding American Plant Resources
A safeguarding review by National Plant Board (NPB) at the request of the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine (USDA,APHIS,PPQ)

Soil Taxonomy, A Basic System of Soil Classification and Interpreting Soil Surveys [.pdf]
Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Union Catalogue of Agricultural Libraries in the Netherlands - (dead link)

UK CropNet
"...the UK Crop Plant Bioinformatics Network (UK CropNet). Established in 1996 as part of the BBSRC's Plant and Animal Genome Analysis special initiative, our focus is the development, management, and distribution of information relating to comparative mapping and genome research in crop plants. Find out more about our background or read our UK CropNet paper published in Nucleic Acids Research ... This site hosts a wide range of databases and software developed by UK CropNet, as well as hosting many other plant databases developed in the USA. All of our databases can be searched simultaneously and you can also BLAST search against all databases that contain sequences."

U.K. Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF)

United Nations

U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) see Agriculture - USDA Resources

U.S. Department of Labor

  • The National Agriculture Workers Survey (NAWS)
    "Since the NAWS began surveying farmworkers in 1988, it has collected information from over 25,000 workers. The survey samples all crop farmworkers in three cycles each year in order to capture the seasonality of the work."
    • A Profile of U.S. Farmworkers
      Demographics, Household Composition, Income and Use of Services. U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Office of Program Economics, Research Report No. 6. April 1997.

U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

U.S. National Drought Policy Commission - (dead link)

  • Final Report: "Preparing for Drought in the 21st Century" - (dead link)
    Released 05/16/00

U.S. Trade Internet System
"Featuring United States Exports, Imports and Re-Exports of Agricultural, Fish, Forest, and Textile Products with the World!"
U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service