GM (genetically-modified) foods
issue
anti-GM:
- NEWS STORIES
- COUNTRY INFO
- Earthshots: http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents
- Food Security Document Library (articles from a foundation) http://www.iatp.org/foodsec/
- country briefing books http://www.popplanet.org/
- country stats on water http://www.populationaction.org/why_pop/water/water-table.htm
- table of freshwater supplies by country http://www.worldwater.org/table1.html
- country stats on safe water http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/social/watsan.htm
- country info on all kinds of sustainable development issues (but some
countries have no data)(includes details and comparisons for agriculture, fresh water, who
makes decisions, etc.): http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/
- LATEST INFO on harvests
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/fo/fotoc.htm
- Country info crop prospects: http://www.fao.org/giews/english/fs/fs9909/FSTOC.htm#TopOfPage
- map (clickable) for food security problems: http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/fs/fs9911/map/fswo9911.htm
- Shortages, FAO Early Warning System: http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/fs/fstoc.htm
- Search Service for food & environmental info http://popenvironment.org/search/search4.cfm
- Europe
- Middle East
- The Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework Project http://www.undp.org/seed/water/region/nile.htm
& http://www.nilebasin.org/
- Syria: http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/alertes/1999/SRSYR99.htm
- in Sudan http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/alertes/2000/SRSUD01.htm
- in MiddleEast (IRAN, IRAQ, ISRAEL, JORDAN, LEBANON , SAUDI ARABIA ,
SYRIA, TURKEY, YEMEN) http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/alertes/1999/SRNEA997.htm
- UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(=Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen ) http://www.escwa.org.lb/mapfile.html
- other links http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dme0www/links05.htm
- http://w3fp.arizona.edu/cmesua/Photo/exhibit.html [photos: water as a resource
in the ME]
- AfricaSpecial Reports on Food problems related to droughts in Sudan http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/alertes/2000/SRSUD01.htm
- Worse droughts predicted: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/020800sci-environ-drought.html
FOOD & AGRICULTURE LINKS TO MORE
INFORMATION
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