Agriculture and Food Safety Links

Agriculture >Links

Many Agriculture Organizations list specific Internet resources.

www.FoodSafety.gov
Gateway to Government Food Safety Information
Sections include: News & Safety Alerts ; Consumer Advice ; Kids, Teens, & Educators ; Report Illnesses & Product Complaints ; Foodborne Pathogens ; Industry Assistance ; National Food Safety Programs ; Federal & State Gov't Agencies ; Other Topics.

[Africa] African Network for Agroforestry Education (ANAFE)
"...is a network of 117 educational institutions in Africa whose objective is to strengthen the teaching of multi-disciplinary approaches to land management. The ANAFE Coordination Unit is hosted at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) headquarters in Nairobi."

[Africa] BBC NEWS In Depth - Africa's Food Crisis
Section include: News ; Mapping the Crisis ; In Pictures ; West Africa ; Southern Africa ; East Africa ; Head-to-Head ; Race Against Time ; Key Facts and Figures.

Ag BioTech InfoNet
"...covers all aspects of the application of biotechnology and genetic engineering in agricultural production and food processing and marketing...Our focus is on scientific reports and findings and technical analysis, although the page also covers emerging issues of widespread interest, developments in the policy arena, and major media coverage."

AgBioS
 Agriculture & Biotechnology Strategies (Canada) Inc.
"Provides scientific and regulatory expertise in environmental risk assessment, integrated pest management, and agricultural biotechnology; Offers basic information about plants with novel traits, including genetically engineered crop species, and other general agricultural biotechnology related information."
AgBioS maintains a global database of plants with novel traits (PNTs) that have been commercialized.

AgBiotechNet
The online service for agricultural biotechnology
"The service provides easy access to information on subjects such as genetic engineering, in vitro culture, biosafety, intellectual property rights and other key issues in agricultural biotechnology."
"Currently for free we have conference proceedings, topics (giving access to news, reviews, book chapters, reports and abstracts for important issues), patents, links, a diary of events, full contents listing, details of new CABI books on biotech, and an agbiotech jobs page (free to both job posters and job seekers). By using a free trial, visitors can gain access to all of the site's content."

AgDB - (dead link)
Agriculture Network Information Center
"AgDB is a database directory of quality agriculture-related databases, datasets, and information systems. It describes and links to more than 1,000 information resources.

AgNIC
Agriculture Network Information Center
"AgNIC is a guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and other institutions...AgNIC focuses on providing agricultural information in electronic format over the World Wide Web via the Internet. One of the objectives of AgNIC is that member participants take responsibility for small vertical segments of agricultural information (including basic, applied, and developmental research, extension, and teaching activities in the food, agricultural, renewable natural resources, forestry, and physical and social sciences) and develop Web sites and reference services in specific subject areas."

AgNIC Agribusiness
"It is a part of AgNIC (Agriculture Network Information Center), which is a distributed network that provides access to selected agriculture-related information, subject area experts, and other resources. It was established by an alliance of the National Agricultural Library, land-grant universities, and other organizations committed to facilitating public access to agricultural and related information...The scope of this site is to provide access to information about agribusiness, which we define as the commerce between farmers (the producers of food and fiber products), those that supply the farmers with the external products they need to enable them to farm, and those that consume and use agricultural products."
- Texas A&M University Libraries

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 Law on the Internet: A Guide - (dead link)
Web Library - AgLaw Internet Gateway and Research Aids from the University of Arkansas. Sections include: Agricultural Law ; Ag General ; AgLaw Topics ; Farm Bills ; General Law ; Primary Law ; Law by Subject ; Environmental Law ; International Law ; Gov. Agencies ; Libraries ; Search Web ; AgLaw Bibliography ; Research Guides ; AgLaw Library.

Agriculture Information Sources - Selected Internet Resources
A well organized and useful collection of online resources
- Texas A&M Libraries

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

AgriFor
"...is a gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources in agriculture, food and forestry, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners in agriculture, food or forestry. AgriFor is created by a core team of information specialists and subject experts based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library, in partnership with key organisations throughout the UK and further afield...AgriFor is one of the gateways within the BIOME service..."

AgriWeb Canada
Directory of Canadian Online Resource in Agriculture and Agri-Food

AgroWebRussian (Russian or English)
From Russian Central Scientific Agricultural Library

APSnet
Plant Pathology Online
American Phytopathological Society

Asian Food Information Centre (AFIC Online)
"...to be a resource, to help media, educators, health professionals and scientists effectively communicate science-based information on health, nutrition and food safety for the public good."

Australian Farming Virtual Library
"This virtual library aims to provide information on various topics that relate to Australian farming industries."
Developed and Maintained by Amanda Steele.

BBC News - In Depth - Famine in Africa
Sections include: Key Stories ; Aid Worker's Diary ; Hungry Planet ; African Voice ; Horn of Africa ; Southern Africa ; West Africa ; Changed Land ; Clickable Map ; Zambia's GM Debate.

BeanRef
"BeanRef is a collection of external links and references from literature to different aspects of research on beans (Phaseolus and Vigna)."
Mario Nenno, Division of Cell Biology, University of Kaiserslautern

Biological Control
A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America
"This guide provides photographs and descriptions of biological control (or biocontrol) agents of insect, disease and weed pests in North America. It is also a tutorial on the concept and practice of biological control and integrated pest management (IPM)...The guide currently includes individual pages of approximately 100 natural enemies of pest species, and we envision continued expansion."
Cornell University - College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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."

Coffee and Biodiversity Conservation in El Salvador
"The aimof this work is to promote the conservation of biodiversity by providing the tools, training and information necessary to empower local people to monitor and assess the biodiversity of the forests associated with Shade Coffee farms in El Salvador."

A Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information
"I have attempted to bring together all the on-line information on soil survey activities, institutions, datasets, research, and teaching materials world-wide."
Compiled by D.G. Rossiter, International Institute for Aerospace Survey & Earth Sciences, the Netherlands

Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development

  • Global Crop Pests (English or Spanish)
    Identification and Information
    Developed by Alfredo Rueda and Anthony M. Shelton

Crop Science
A well designed class page with lecture and lab notes for beginning science students.
From Horticulture & Crop Science in Virtual Perspective
By M. Teplitski and P. McMahon, Ohio State University

EnviroWindows
Environmental Information for Business and Local Authorities

FEWS Net
Famine Early Warning System Network
"The Goal of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is to strengthen the abilities of African countries and regional organizations to manage risk of food insecurity through the provision of timely and analytical early warning and vulnerability information...professionals in the US and Africa monitor various data and informationóincluding remotely sensed data and ground-based meteorological, crop and rangeland conditionsóas early indications of potential threats to food security."
Sections include: What's Current ; Geographic Centers ; Livelihoods ; Hazards ; Risk Analysis ; Learning Center.


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Food, Agriculture & Fisheries - (dead link)
Sections include: News ; Themes ; Information ; Statistics ; Publications.
OECD Online

Future Harvest - (dead link)
Science for Food, the Environment and the World's Poor
"...promote awareness and educate the general public and decision makers about the importance of food production and the role of agricultural science in meeting the human and environmental challenges of today and tomorrow."

  • Rebuilding Afghanistan's Agriculture - (dead link)
    "Members of a unique, science-based consortium called the Future Harvest Consortium to Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan have come together to harness the best of agricultural research in order to help Afghanistan revive its once-thriving farming sector and move toward food self-sufficiency by 2007."

Food Biotechnology Communications Network
A coalition diverse organizations, companies and government ministries who are interested in food biotechnology in Canada

Forestry AgNIC at the University of Minnesota
Major topics include Reference Resources ; Full Text Resources ; Associations/Organizations ; Government Agencies ; Conferences ; Subject Divisions ; Related Sites ; Miscellaneous.
By Jean Albrecht, Forestry Library, University of Minnesota

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

  • AgroLinks - (dead link)
    Search by country, region, organization, or institution.

Organic-Research.com
Organic Farming and Research
Sections include: News ; What's On ; Research ; Education ; Links ; Jobs ; Laws & Regs ; Farms.

Surviving the Dust Bowl
Sections include: The Film & More ; Special Features ; Timeline ; Maps ; People & Events ; Teacher's Guide.
PBS - The American Experience

Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory
"Research into the systematics of fungi and vascular plants essential to solving problems in sustainable and conventional agriculture."
Agricultural Research Service, USDA

Tree Fruit Research & Extension Center - (dead link)
WSU-TFREC Fruit Pathology
By Gary Grove, Washington State University

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 (pdf reader required) ... 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."

United Nations - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

  • World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) Portal
    Includes: "Thousands of full-text publications and technical documents on agriculture, fisheries, nutrition and forestry, available through the Internet, on specific subjects such as trends in trade, country-specific information, food safety and deforestation ... Codes of conduct, interactive tools for use at the national level, and early warning and disaster prevention systems ... Data, including maps and charts, obtained through the FAO online statistical databases, containing over one million time-series records, covering international statistics in the area of agricultural production, trade indices, food supply, land and food aid ...Thousands of other multimedia resources available on the FAO Web site."

United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) - (dead link) "...is an organization for information professionals that provides a forum for discussion of agricultural issues, takes a leadership role in the formation of a national information policy as related to agriculture, makes recommendations to the National Agricultural Library on agricultural information matters, and promotes cooperation and communication among its members."

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

University of Minnesota Academic Health Center - Center for Infectious Disease Research And Policy (CIDRAP)
Sections include: Bioterrorism: General Bioterrorism Info ; Anthrax ; Botulism ; Plague ; Smallpox ; Tularemia ; VHF. Food Safety: General Information ; Biosecurity ; Irradiation ; Foodborne Disease.

University of Nebraska - Center for Biosecurity
"...was created in 2002 to effectively serve the state of Nebraska and the nation by addressing both human and agricultural (plant and animal) biosecurity concerns. The center, administered by the University of Nebraska Medical Center, draws on the expertise of faculty members from all four campuses in a unique educational collaboration of expert scientists and clinicians who participate in clinical service, public service, educational and research programs."

Vegetable MD Online
"...developed to provide access to the many Vegetable Disease Fact Sheets produced over the years by Media Services at Cornell. The addition of color photographs enhances the use of these sheets for plant disease diagnosis."
Cornell University Plant Pathology Department

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

World Food Programme

World Food Programme - Central America Drought
WFP Seeks Long-Term Response to Central American Hunger

www.FoodSafety.gov
Gateway to Government Food Safety Information
Sections include: News & Safety Alerts ; Consumer Advice ; Kids, Teens, & Educators ; Report Illnesses & Product Complaints ; Foodborne Pathogens ; Industry Assistance ; National Food Safety Programs ; Federal & State Gov't Agencies ; Other Topics.

WWW Virtual Library: Agriculture
 Maintained by the NSF Center for Integrated Pest Management, North Carolina State University

Many Organizations listing specific Internet resources.





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