food & agriculture

FOOD & AGRICULTURE LINKS

"Food and the Future" from Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/food/index.html *****
Basic References
Water
Country Info (Core 220) for Food and Water
Food, Ag, & Water News
Food Safety
Genetic Modification Issue
Policy Recommendations
Professional-Level References
How to do something about it (getting involved in helping real people)
click on the http://www.thehungersite.com/ to get sponsors to deliver food to starving people
Case studies on environment and development: http://www.american.edu/TED/class/all.htm + An African case study http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/299/5610/1187
Links to other sites
BASIC AGRICULTURE REFERENCES
- Jann's summary
- An African case study http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/299/5610/1187
- Food Security for a Growing World Population (Novartis Foundation) Very readable basic info.
- Sustainable Agriculture (Good basic information about issues involved in sustainable agriculture)
- newsletter on sustainable agriculture and GM from Union of Concerned Scientists
  http://www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/foodweb.html
- slide show "Strategies for Enhancing Food Security" (prep. for the 1996 World Food Summit by Govt. of USA) http://popenvironment.org/TFGI/sld001.htm
- FAO (UN Food & Agriculture Organization), these parts are particularly helpful for CORE 220:
         FAO latest agriculture news with links to details
         FAO Special Programme for Food Security (click "Objectives & approach", case studies, news, and links)
- World Watch Institute: http://www.worldwatch.org/index.html
- its "Third World Demographic Fatigue" Alert
- International Institute for Sustainable Development http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/
- Sustainable development foundation: http://www.foundation.novartis.com/nfhome.htm
- Sustainable development: http://sdnp.delhi.nic.in
- GEO 2000: http://www.unep.org/geo2000
- Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land http://www.worldwatch.org/chairman/issue/010214.html
- Cornell U. Cooperative Extension Svc
- Benefits of Biodiversity in agriculture
WATER
- "Managing Water for People and Nature" http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/292/5519/1071
- water NGO resources information http://www.worldwater.org/
  - country water stats http://www.worldwater.org/waterData.htm
  - timeline of international conflicts over water supply http://www.worldwater.org/conflict.htm
- http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/modules.html
- Pollution
- http://www.epa.gov/ow/library/
- Water recycling
- Water Science for Schools
- water sources (basics + links) http://popenvironment.org/freshwater.htm
- Population and the Future of Renewable Water Supplies
- water review, good overview: http://www.nap.edu/issues/16.2/br_lydon.htm
- "Sustaining water, Easing Scarcity" 2nd update http://www.populationaction.org/why_pop/water/water-toc.htm
- National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc/
- diseases caused by water http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasiticpathways/drinkingwater.htm and http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/GDWQ/Microbiology/GWDWQMicrobiological2.html
- sustainable water projects (UN) http://www.undp.org/seed/water/sitemap.htm
- UN water programs (Guide to the 20+ UN agencies which deal with fresh water supplies) http://www.unesco.org/science/waterday2000/UN_Synopsis.HTM
- WaterPartners International, NGO which sponsors water projects in developing countries, especially in Latin America; involves volunteers: http://www.water.org/
- good transcripts from hearings on global water problems (audio may work too)
- Water quality & long-term sustainability of livestock production (USDA and US EPA)
  Environmental problems resulting from concentrated animal production (USDA)
- National Park Service's programs in water resources
  U Water Info Network
  Water recycling
- new water sources (basics + links) http://popenvironment.org/freshwater.htm
- new water review, good overview: http://www.nap.edu/issues/16.2/br_lydon.htm
- new "Sustaining Water" (1993, but good stats & details) http://popenvironment.org/pai/h2o-toc.html
- new "Sustaining water, Easing Scarcity" 2nd update http://www.populationaction.org/why_pop/water/water-toc.htm
- National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc/
- A case study: Agricultural Research Station in Mali (Novartis Foundation)
- Water quality & long-term sustainability of livestock production (USDA and US EPA)
  Environmental problems resulting from concentrated animal production (USDA)
Policy Recommendations for trade, agriculture and sustainable development
- What to do when conservation and farming clash: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/09/science/09PRES.html
- The Human Right to Water http://www.pacinst.org/waterpub.html (PDF download)
- from the World Wildlife Fund: http://www.iatp.org/foodsec/library/admin/uploadedfiles/Directing_WTO_Negotiations_towards_Sustainable.htm
- More articles like the one above: http://www.iatp.org/foodsec/
- Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/sus.ag.policy.html
- *environment & trade handbook http://iisd.ca/trade/handbook/
- North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (NAFTA) http://www.cec.org/home/index.cfm?varlan=english
- Environmental Policy Updates ( weekly summaries of the major environmental policy news produced by the Public Affairs Office of the Ecological Society of America) http://esa.sdsc.edu/epupage.htm
- Country-of-origin food labels (US laws) http://www.cnie.org/nle/inter-5.html
- food exports from developing countries http://www.un.org/News/devupdate/latest.htm#fao
- Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development: http://www.nautilus.org
- Project Underground: http://www.moles.org
- Friends of the Earth and National Wildlife Federation: http://www.nwf.org
- World Resources Institute, International Institutions and Governance Program http://www.wri.org/wri
- Corporate Watch http://www.igc.org/trac
- Mineral Policy Center http://www.mineralpolicy.org
- New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/nipr
- OECD http://www.oecd.org/daf/env/index.htm
- Sierra Club-Human Rights and Environment Project http://www.sierraclub.org/human-rights/nigeria
- environmental myths http://members.aol.com/jimn469897/myths.htm
- How to do something about it
- Pesticides and Alternatives
  - http://www.epa.gov/oppbppd1/PESP/
  - http://www.pesp.org/.
  - http://www.reeusda.gov/ipm/
  - http://www.reeusda.gov/ipm/pmap.htm
  - http://www.reeusda.gov/nipmn
  - http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu:80/ipmnet/ny/index.html
  - http://www.ipmnet.org/
  - http://www.ipminstitute.org/
FOOD SAFETY
- EPA Pesticides and Food http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/food/
- Gateway to Government Food Safety Information http://www.FoodSafety.gov/
- Food Safety at Iowa State University http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/homepage.html
- World Health Organization, Food Safety Programme http://www.who.int/fsf/index.htm
- International Food Information Council Foundation http://ificinfo.health.org/

GM (genetically-modified) foods issue
- http://www.dnafiles.org/about/pgm9/hear.html (You can link to an audio excerpt from the NPR series The DNA Files and also to in-depth information.)
- newsletter on GM etc. from Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/foodweb.html
- recent news and explanations http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/gm-index.html
- Statement from The Ecological Society of America http://esa.sdsc.edu/statement0601.htm
- 2003 GM focus issue: http://www.nature.com/nrg/focus/gm/
- perspective from The Economist mag: http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/19990619/sf3732.html
- experts debate genetically-modified foods: http://www.biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/78/viewpts/overview
- http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7183/547 What a British Medical Journal says (it's not too technical for you)
- Information Systems for Biotechnology (US) http://www.nbiap.vt.edu/
- UN BINAS: Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service: http://binas.unido.org/binas/binas.html (United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). BINAS monitors global regulatory developments in biotechnology.)
- List of all US-approved GM seeds: http://www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/gen.market.html
- book explores the risks and benefits of crops that are genetically modified for pest resistance http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9795.html
- Special "Plant Biotechnology: Food & Feed" issue of Science Magazine: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/285/5426/367 (especially this article on 21st century food security: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/285/5426/387 )(use terminals in the library)
- policies and other resources from England: http://www.ncbe.reading.ac.uk/NCBE/GMFOOD/menu.html
- GM for salt/drought/arid lands crops: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/285/5431/1222 (enhanced with more links)(use terminals in the library)
- crops which already can be grown in salty water: http://www.sciam.com/1998/0898issue/0898glenn.html
- GM RICE with vitamin A (deficiency causes a lot of cases of blindness worldwide)
  - GM rice (enhanced) http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/287/5451/241 (use terminals in the library)
  - special report (non technical) http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/gmworld/gmfood/gmfood.html
    or http://gmworld.newscientist.com/
  - UNICEF's Vitamin A initiative: http://www.unicef.org/vitamina/
- US Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Biotechnology Program http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/biotech/
- US Department of Agriculture: Biotechnology http://www.aphis.usda.gov/biotechnology/
- Biotechnology Industry Organization http://www.bio.org/
anti-GM:
- http://www.oac.uoguelph.ca/www/CRSC/faculty/eac/10reasons.htm
- http://helix.nature.com/debates/gmfoods/gmfoods_frameset.html
- http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/08121999/grapha.htm (news story)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/020600genetic-food-review.html (economic angle)

NEWS STORIES
- worse droughts predicted for Africa http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/020800sci-environ-drought.html
- update on extent of problem http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000127/000127-11.html
- droughts correlated with political instability http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000127/000127-13.html
- air pollution can cause local drought: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/aaas-apc030100.html
- desalination info http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/031200sci-environ-water.html
- heavy regional haze reduces China's crop production: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/gtri-ftw120699.html
- urban pets cause water pollution http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/vand-pmb120399.html
- Patents on seeds: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-02/03/100l-020399-idx.html
- FAO latest agriculture news with links to details
- GM: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/gm-index.html (contains many items!)
- refuge to reduce chance of insects developing resistance to GM crops: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/March00/BrocMoth.bpf.html
- how Ancient Greeks saved water: http://www.foxnews.com/science/040400/da_greeks.sml
- Planet Ark news archive for
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
  - EU: http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg06/index.htm
  - Scandanavian countries: http://novagate.nova-university.org/
  - England: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/
- 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]
- Africa
  - Special 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
- Professional-Level Info:
  - Current Research Info System (USDA) research projects in agriculture, food & nutrition, forestry
  - AGRICOLA searchable National Agricultural Library
  - AGRIS, the FAO agricultural journal article database
  - "Sustainability" issue of Conservation Ecology: http://www.consecol.org/Journal/vol3/iss2/index.html :
    - http://www.consecol.org/Journal/vol3/iss2/art4/ sustainable ag model
  - Seed banks for crop species: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/277/5329/1063
  - Information Systems for Biotechnology http://www.nbiap.vt.edu/
  - NATURE features of the week collections, access from http://www.nature.com/cgi-bin/wbsp-home.cgi
    GM cotton and the bollworm, including monarch/corn pollen papers
    Eat your genes--how safe are GM crops?
  - GENERAL ECOLOGY LINKS
FOOD & AGRICULTURE LINKS TO MORE INFORMATION
- Reports for US Congress: http://www.cnie.org/nle/crs_main.html
- The link page of all new and updated US government environment reports http://www.cnie.org/nle/crsnew.html
- huge list of MORE LINKS for Congressional Research Service: http://www.cnie.org/nle/ag-80.html
- Sustainable Farming Connections from Metalab (UNC): http://metalab.unc.edu/farming-connection/
  Intergarden alternative farming and living
- Water, Environment, and Sustainable Development resources: http://www.pacinst.org/publications.html
- GM for salt crops: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/285/5431/1222 (enhanced with more links)
- links for Environmental Educators
- LINKS to More Environmental Action Sites

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