Africa Pulse portal aims to develop an easy-to-use
Internet-based information service on social and economic development in the
southern African region that will keep development workers and local communities
informed and up-to-date.
http://www.africapulse.net/
African Food Security and Food Policy: A Directory of Country-Level,
Regional-Network and Pan-African Resources on the Internet
http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/test/index.htm
AgBio Gateway to the Agricultural and Biological Sciences features carefully
selected content from leading publications in plant science , agronomy,
crop and soil science, forestry, and horticulture, and related areas such as aquatic science and food science.
http://gateways.bmn.com/ag-bio
AgNIC is a guide to quality agricultural information on
the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant
Universities and other institutions. It is a site providing access to a network
of electronic sources on research and teaching in agriculture, food, renewable
natural resources, forestry, and physical and social sciences.
http://www.agnic.org/
AGRALIN/Agricultural Literature Information System in the
Netherlands is a gateway to scientific information in the fields of food,
agrotechnology, plant and animal production systems, nature and the environment,
based at the Agricultural University of Wageningen. It provides a collection of
bibliographic databases and acts as a www directory.
http://www.bib.wau.nl/
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. It 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.
http://www.agrifor.ac.uk
AGRICOLA
(AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a
bibliographic database covering agriculture and related sciences/activities,
produced by the US National Agricultural Library (NAL). Equivalent to the
printed Bibliography of Agriculture, with a US bias, it includes some 3 million
references to journal articles, books, reports, conference proceedings, patents,
audiovisuals, etc.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/
Agricultural Information Resource Centers - A World
Directory 2000 includes complete addresses and phone numbers for nearly 4000
libraries and documentation centres in 189 countries. Most entries also include
size, subjects and language of collections; type of institution; type of
materials collected; services provided; name and phone number of the Director;
and information on databases maintained and/or searched. Available Internet
URLs, telex and fax numbers, and E-mail addresses are also provided. The primary
language is English, but names of institutions in other romanised languages have
been included.
http://www.nisc.com/factsheets/qair.htm
Agriculture Knowledge and Information Systems
(AKIS) is a system of people
and institutions that generates, transfers, and utilizes agricultural knowledge and information.
http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/ardext.nsf/26ByDocName/AKISResearchExtension
Agrigate is a subject information gateway for
resources, both online and offline, identified as valuable to those
participating in agricultural research. Agrigate is a project of the libraries
of the Universities of Melbourne, Adelaide and Queensland, and the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia; it is one
of a number of Australian subject information gateways coordinated by the
National Library of Australia.
http://www.agrigate.edu.au/
AGRIS is the international information system for the
agricultural sciences and technology. It was created by the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1974, to facilitate information
exchange and to bring together world literature dealing with all aspects of
agriculture. It is a cooperative system in which participating countries input
references to the literature produced within their boundaries and, in return,
draw on the information provided by the other participants. To date, 240
national, international and intergovernmental centres participate from all over
the world.
http://www.fao.org/agris/
Agritrade CTA's portal on agricultural trade issues and future ACP-EU relations.
http://agritrade.cta.int
AiDA (Accessible Information on Development Activities)
is a database of development projects maintained by the World Bank. It
currently contains over 61 000 records, and records information on development
activities found on the websites of development organisations. Participating
organisations share information on planned, current and completed projects and
programmes that they fund, execute or implement.
http://aida.developmentgateway.org/
AQUASTAT is FAO's global information system, whose
objective is to provide users with comprehensive information on the state of
agricultural water management across the world, with emphasis on developing
countries and countries in transition.
http://www.fao.org/AG/AGL/aglw/aquastat/main/index.stm
AROW: Agricultural Research Organizations on the Web
contains a worldwide directory of over 1000 organisations and universities
working in agricultural research that have a home page on the web. It is updated
on a regular basis. It is a browsable site that can be searched by web address,
organisation title and acronym, or country. The AROW directory is maintained in
association with Wisard, the Web-based Information System for Agricultural
Research for Development. Wisard also includes research organisations without
websites.
http://www.isnar.cgiar.org/arow/index.html
British Society of Soil Science's Soils Information Gateway is a searchable soil information site with teaching resources, publications, products, sources of research funding, and a variety of other information of interest to researchers and teachers of soil related subjects.
http://www.soils.org.uk/sig.splash.htm
Community Development Library 2.1 (CD-ROM) (2002) contains more than
1.785 publications (160.000 pages) to help solve poverty, to increase human
potential, and to provide education to all. It contains publications from GTZ,
SKAT, FAO, ILO, Peace Corps, UNAIDS, United Nations University, Women's World
Summit Foundation and more than 100 other organisations. It is intended for
local communities, civil society and NGOs. The final objective of this cooperative
project is to provide those involved in the areas of development and basic needs
with access to a free or low-cost CD-ROM library of +/- 3000 books containing
most multidisciplinary insights and solutions they need.
http://www.infocooperation.org/
Community Information Network for Southern Africa Launched to boost information and communication technologies
(ICTs) in Southern Africa CINSA is supporting ICT projects in all 13 countries in the Southern African Development Community
(SADC). The activities covered include setting up telecentres, community multimedia
centres, community radio stations, and community information resource and access
centres.
http://www.cinsa.info/portal/index.php
Development Gateway is an interactive portal for information and knowledge
sharing on sustainable development and poverty reduction.
http://www.developmentgateway.org/
DevNet The objective of DevNet is to facilitate the exchange of ideas, information and research between and among Development Studies, and key stakeholders in development: aid and development NGOs, private sector development practitioners, and government. Upon joining DevNet members can browse the database to see the contact details and professional interests of other DevNet members. Other benefits include receiving DevNet Updates through e-mail, which contain information on new resources, development studies courses and training, publications, research, scholarships, conferences and seminars. Of particular interest to University students and academics.
http://www.devnet.org.nz
Digital Dividend is a Web site dedicated to exploring creative business approaches, public-private partnerships, and other sustainable ways to bridge the global digital divide and create lasting economic, social, and environmental benefits. The Project Clearinghouse is a fully searchable database currently tracking over 900 digitally-enabled projects in developing countries.
http://www.digitaldividend.org.
Dimitra Guidebook: A Directory of Research
Institutes, NGOs and Information Centres (2 volumes): 1. Europe (working
with/for rural women in the South); 2. Africa and the Near East. FAO,
2000/1.
http://www.fao.org/dimitra/
Directory for Agricultural Research and Development in
Africa offers a service whereby institutions or professionals in the fields
of agriculture and development can be located by simply entering the acronym or
the name of the institution or person in the appropriate box, then clicking the
'search' button.
cf.afr-sd.org/spaar/directoryfind.cfm
Directory of Development Organizations lists over 20
000 contacts to organisations, and aims to facilitate international cooperation
and knowledge sharing in development work among NGOs, research institutions, and
governments and private sector organisations.
http://www.devdir.org/
Directory of European Tropical Forest Research Institutions
lists participants in the European Tropical Forest Research Network. It
includes over 500 entries of organisations in EU member states that are involved
in forest research in the Tropics, Subtropics and Mediterranean. It is also
available as a searchable online directory.
http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/
Directory of Fisheries and Aquaculture Information
Resources in Africa/Répertoire des sources d'information sur la
pêche et l'aquaculture en Afrique is compiled by Jean Collins and
Fodé Karim Kaba. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 416, Rome, 2001, 226
pp.
http://www4.fao.org/fishdir/
Directory of forest-related international and regional institutions and instruments aims to provide a current overview of the collective capabilities of forest-related institutions and instruments in supporting sustainable forest development processes at the global, regional and national levels. http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/unff/index.jsp?siteId=1120&langId=1&
DRAiNET offers a collection of databases on
waterlogging, salinity and control.
http://www.ilri.nl/drainnet.html
EARD-InfoSys aims to increase the transparency of, and access to, European web resources on agriculture, environment, fisheries, forestry, socio-economics, rural transformation and other development topics. It also aims to create an information and communication platform as a service for a multitude of institutions and parties all over Europe involved in scientific development cooperation.
http://www.infosysplus.org
East African Development Library (CD-ROM) (2001), a UNESCO project,
contains 592 electronic publications totalling nearly 55,000 pages from, or
about, East Africa, focussing on developmental issues for non-specialized readers.
It includes a wide range of material on development selected by correspondents
in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and is available free of charge to documentation
centres, public libraries and media centres in the countries concerned and other
interested organisations.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/
E-mail: [email protected]
Eco-Portal - The Environmental Sustainability Info Source is an information
gateway providing full text searches of reviewed environmental content, news,
links and more to over 3000 Internet sites.
http://www.environmentalsustainability.info/
ELDIS Electronic Development and Environment Information
Services is a gateway to information sources on development and the
environment which offers an easy route to the latest information on development
and environmental issues.
http://www.eldis.org/
EL@ND (European Libraries Network for Development)
provides a single search to 9 catalogues of development information policy and practice. It has
multilingual support to retrieve articles in resources catalogued throughout Europe in 1,000,000 records covering over 150 countries.
http://www.eadi.org/eland/
EURASLIC Directory of European Aquatic Science Libraries
and Information Centres includes 530 records and is a database product
developed by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) on
behalf of EURASLIC, for the benefit of the Ocean research community.
http://ioc2.unesco.org:591/euraslic/
FAO Fisheries Global Information System
(FIGIS) is a global network of integrated fisheries information. Visitors can search for documents, analytical data and statistics, maps, software and web tools for aquatic
species, marine resources, marine fisheries, fishing technologies and aquaculture. Of particular interest is the FAO Species Identification and Data Programme
(SIDP).
http://www.fao.org/fi/figis/
Food Security and Food Policy Internet Directory for Sub-Saharan Africa This directory seeks to help researchers conducting studies of country- and region-specific African food security to find important and high-quality Internet sources of data and information to assist in their analytical work countries/regions/topics;
http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/test/index.htm
Forestry AgNIC is a guide to quality forestry and natural resources information on the Internet with over 1500 links. The University of Minnesota maintains the forestry section of AgNIC and itself provides several specialists databases in social sciences, trail planning, urban forestry and tropical forest conservation and development, all accessible through
AgNIC.
http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/agnic/
ForestScience Info
- A unique information resource of forest science and wood science research for foresters, scientists, environmental consultants, policy makers and others actively involved in research or decision-making in
agroforestry, forestry, wood science, and the forest and timber industries. ForestScience.info is an online information resource for forest and
woodscience, developed by CABI Publishing.
http://www.forestscience.info/books.asp
Forests.org.Inc - Forest Conservation Portal provides
comprehensive sources of information on forest conservation. It contains a list
of reviewed forest conservation websites; links to some of the main websites for
forest science and advocacy based on region, forest type, ecology, destruction,
protection and campaigns; and an archive of over 25 000 articles from the past 8
years.
http://www.forests.org/
Global Association of Online Foresters provides a wide
range of forest information and the opportunity for its members to join various
mailing lists.
http://www.foresters.org/portal/index.html
Globefish coordinates a network of regional marketing information services
(INFOnetwork) launched in the late 1970s by FAO composed of INFOPESCA (South and Central America), INFOFISH (Asia and Pacific), INFOPECHE (Africa), INFOSAMAK (Arab countries) EUROFISH (Eastern and Central Europe), and INFOYU (China). This network promotes trade in fish products by providing up-to-date information on markets and prices; bringing buyers and sellers together in international conferences; and training for industry
andgovernment on quality requirements.
http://www.globefish.org/
ICT Update CTA's current awareness bimonthly, each issue of ICT Update focuses on a specific theme relevant to ICTs for agricultural and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific
(ACP) countries, and features four commissioned articles. The printed bulletin also contains a selection of relevant links and projects and a 'Question and Answer' section, taken from the website.
http://ictupdate.cta.int
INDEV is India's first development gateway and is a
portal site with links to over 2500 leading development organisations in
India.
http://www.indev.nic.in/
InfoAgrar is the agricultural information and
documentation service of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
The focus is on information related to agriculture in Africa, Latin and Central
America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. It is a unique service for those seeking
practical information and support in agricultural development cooperation as
well as issues related to information management.
http://www.infoagrar.ch/
The Info Finder is a global link to research on
agriculture, hunger, poverty and the environment which allows users to search
for digital information on Future Harvest Center, CGIAR and FAO
websites.
http://infofinder.cgiar.org/
INSnet - InterNetwork for Sustainability - is a nonprofit informal network to support sustainable development.
Its main goal is to create awareness for the comprehensive character of sustainable development by giving easy access to relevant information. It attempts to achieve this by creating an entry to news, opinions and information and by offering an international platform for publishing opinions and information.
http://www.insnet.org/aboutins.html
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
(IRD)
A French government-owned public agency that conducts and promotes research within the countries of the South. ORSTOM conducts
research into inter-tropical environments and undertakes various programme
activities in these areas in co-operation with Southern partners.
http://www.ird.fr/
International Portal on Food Safety, Animal & Plant Health is a powerful internet search engine that provides
access to many useful sites. Developed by FAO, in association with the organisations responsible for international standard setting in sanitary and phytosanitary matters, this portal provides a single access point for authorised official international and national information across the sectors of food safety, animal and plant health.
http://www.ipfsaph.org/
International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS) website provides free access to original, up-to-date publications organised in electronic books, proceedings of veterinary meetings, short courses, continuing education (lecture notes, manuals, autotutorials and interactive websites), an international calendar of veterinary events, and image collections. http://www.ivis.org/authorforms/contributors_list.asp
Knowledge for Development is CTA's Observatory on science and technology. The website supports the policy dialogue on S&T for agricultural and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific
(ACP) countries. It enables the ACP scientific community - primarily agricultural research and development scientists and technologists, policy makers, farmers and other stakeholders and actors - to share and review results of national and regional efforts and collaborate to harness science and technology for the development of agriculture in their countries.
http://knowledge.cta.int/index.php
Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network portal
for information on community-based marine conservation and its practitioners.
http://www.lmmanetwork.org/
MekongInfo is an interactive system for sharing
information and knowledge about participatory natural resource management in the
Lower Mekong Basin. In addition to over 2600 documents (full-text and abstract)
in the library, MekongInfo provides a contacts database of individuals, projects
and organisations, news and announcements of events, relevant web links, a
gallery of useful resource materials, a forum for online discussions, and a free
web-hosting service.
http://www.MekongInfo.org/
Natural Resource and Environment is a gateway to
information and documentation on natural resources and environment in the field
of development cooperation.
http://www.NRE.ch/
NOVAGATE is a gateway to selected Internet resources in
the fields of forestry, veterinary, agricultural, food and environmental
sciences. It includes descriptions of and links to databases (bibliographic and
full-text), directories, events, Internet resource guides, training materials,
and web sites of key organisations. The database covers Nordic resources as well
as European resources and those of international organisations.
http://novagate.nova-university.org/gateinfo.html
Pacific Development Directory provides details of
agencies and organisations working on development projects in the Pacific. It
lists more than 1100 organisations from 45 countries and is continually updated
online. A printed version was produced and widely distributed in 1998. The next
hard copy and CD-ROM version is due out in early 2003.
http://www.piango.net/
Réseau développement durable
(RéDév), a network on sustainable development, has been created by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to facilitate discussions and the exchange of information on this concept. At present, the network consists of three working groups: 'Support for farmers'
organisations', 'Institutional support for the agricultural sector' and 'Agricultural policies and food safety'. News from the working groups can be obtained by subscribing, free-of-charge, to RéDév's email alert system.
http://www.redev.info
SD Gateway integrates the online information developed
by members of the Sustainable Development Communications Network. In addition to
over 1200 documents available in SD Topics, it provides services such as a
calendar of events, a job bank, the Sustainability Web Ring, a roster of mailing
lists (listservs) and news sites dealing with sustainable development.
http://sdgateway.net/
Soil Biodiversity Portal provides a framework within
which soil biodiversity can be assessed, managed and conserved, showing examples
of successful and unsuccessful practices that have been used in various regions
to manage soil biodiversity.
http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/soilbiod/default.htm
Spore bulletin CTA's information bulletin Spore, in English and French, and Esporo in Portuguese, is published every two months. Each carries feature articles, news items, information on forthcoming courses and conferences, news of CTA's activities, book reviews and descriptions of information sources.
http://spore.cta.int
Sustainable Development Online aims to provide access
to significant websites built by organisations supporting the move towards, and
covering the broad subject of, sustainable development.
http://sd-online.ewindows.eu.org/
TROPICS (Tropical Forests Projects Information System)
aims to improve the effectiveness and coordination of tropical forestry aid
by bringing together information about tropical forestry activities undertaken
by the European Commission and EU Member States.
http://www.oneworld.org/odi/tropics/
UNEP-INFOTERRA is the global environmental information
exchange network of the United Nations Environment Programme. The network
operates through a system of 177 government-designated national focal points. An
INFOTERRA national focal point is a national environmental information centre,
usually located in the ministry or agency responsible for environmental
protection. The primary function of each centre is to provide a national
environmental information service.
http://www.unep.org/infoterra/
Virtual Library on International Development is a collection of links to international development-related sites and documents on the Internet maintained by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). http://www.dev-zone.org/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=6821
WAICENT Information Finder allows users to search in
two ways: Free Text Search of the entire FAO website for web pages and
documents; and Directory Search of important sites and information within FAO.
http://www.fao.org/waicent/search/default.asp?lang=en
WCA infoNET is an integrated Internet information
platform which merges high quality information resources and expertise, allowing
direct access to publications, documents, data, computer programmes and
discussion groups that provide a knowledge base, support and the necessary
global platform for decisions on water conservation and use in
agriculture.
http://www.fao.org/iptrid/
WISARD is a web-based information system focusing on
projects, organisations, outputs and technologies in the field of agricultural
research and rural development, and natural resources management. It addresses
questions related to 'who is doing what where?' via a user-friendly search
interface developed in cooperation with a broad group of end-users.
http://www.wisard.org/wisard/home.html
World Directory of Development Organizations and Programs -The aim of this project is to promote mutual cooperation, dissemination of data and exchange of experiences among
organisations, associations
and informal groups whose activity is development related. The directory contains basic information on known organizations - mainly NGOs - and their activities for development.
http://www.coop4coop.org
World Directory of Environmental Organisations - Designed to be the
definitive global guide in this field, this descriptive directory has over 350 Web pages with thousands of entries and links. It has detailed
subject and geographic sections, background pages, and numerous cross-references.
http://www.interenvironment.org/wd/index.htm
Worldwide Portal to Information on Soil Health currently offers an extensive database of annotated English and Spanish language resources on the World Wide Web on soil health and related ecologically sound,
sustainable agricultural strategies around the world:
http://mulch.mannlib.cornell.edu/TSAbout.html
