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| 2. Research Centres
Concerned with Tropical Agriculture |
a). Consultative
Group
Research Stations(CGIAR)
b). Bureau for the Development
of Research on Tropical Oilseed Perennial Crops
c). The International
Centre for Under utilised Crops. (Southhampton
University)
d) Bees for
Development
e).International Soil Reference
and
Information Centre
f) International Feed
Resources Unit
g) Institute of Hydrology
h) PEST cabweb CABI
i ) Global Consortium of Higher
Education and Research for Agriculture
j). European Forum on
Agricultural Research and Development
k).
Information
on Tropical Silages
l).
Information
on Tropical Pastures
m).Kenya
Trypanosomiasis Research Institute
n). The Centre for Tropical Veterinary
Medicine, Edinburgh
o). The Famine Centre, Cork,
The Irish Republic
p).Global Forum on Agricultural
Research (GFAR) 1) Dresden Declaration
q).Global Forum on Agricultural
Research (GFAR) 2) Report of Meeting 21-23 May 2000
r). The Association
for Better Land Husbandry
s). City Farmer
t).
FAO Urban Agriculture
u).Resource Centre for Urban
Agriculture
v)
The Savannah Research Organisation (Concerned mainly with
Southern Africa-useful links)
w) Use of Pesticides
(one )
x) Use of
pesticides (two)
y) Ecolink, Ecology without
barriers FAO plus Smithsonian Institute
z ) Food security and
sustainable farming from Greenpeace and Oxfam
aa)
Direct
sowing, mulch based systems and conservation agriculture
bb) Cusichaca Trust
cc)
Watershed Management in
Developing Countries
dd)
Soil survey maps of tropical countries - WOSSAC
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| 3).Institutes
concerned
with development |
a).Department for
International Development
b). Centre
for
Development Studies (University of Glasgow)
c).Development Planning Unit
(University College London
d).Foundation for SME Development
(Durham University)
e). Institute of Development
Studies (University of Sussex)
f).
International Development Dept, School of Public Policy
(University of Birmingham)
g). Overseas Development
Institute
h). Water, Engineering and
Development Centre (Loughborough University)
i). OneWorld.net (Human
rights and sustainable development)
j.
Development in the Andes
k).Institute providing
information on world commodity prices
J) www.volunteerlatinamerica.com
k) www.calumcoburn.co.uk
i)
http://www.kalokotrust.org/ Rural development in Zambia
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| 3.
Funding
and Aid Agencies |
a). The World Bank
b). DFID(Department for
International Development).
bi)
DFID
Civil Society Challenge Fund
c). FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of
the United
Nations).
c1).FAO National Agriculture
Research Institutes page
d ). Centre of Excellence for
Sustainable Development
e).I nternational Foundation for Science(IFS) This
organisation provides research
grants for agricultural scientists in developing countries
f). IDRC(Canada)
g). The British
Council
h).NATURA(Network of
Tropically Orientated European Universities)
i) .UNESCO
j) .European Union
DG12(Development, LOME)
k). The Asian
Development Bank
l ). USAID Africa
m). DANIDA
(Denmark)
n). Animal Production and Health
Commission for Asia and the Pacific
o).National Lottery
UK Grants
p). Netropica,
Network for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, in Cetral
America: Grants for Researchers:
http://www.netropica.org/Grants.htm
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| 4).
Charities concerned with international development |
a). ActionAid
b). Practical Action
c). Oxfam
d). Save the Children Fund
e). Skillshare Africa
f). World Vision UK
g). British Red Cross Society
h). Helpage International
j ). Vetaid
m) VSO
n). Farm Africa
o). List of UK
charities
http://www.fauna-flora.org/ Welcome
to
Fauna & Flora International
http://www.unep-wcmc.org/climate/background.htm Biodiversity
and Climate Change
http://www.wis.cgiar.org/wisard/home.asp Web based
Information System for Agricultural Research for Development
p) AgriNet Virtual Information Centre
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5).
Associated
Societies and Institutes
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a) The British Society of Animal Science
b) T he Institute of Development Studies(This
page contains a Gateway to Development Information produced in
conjunction with DANIDA)
c). Edinburgh Centre for Rural
Research
d) CIRAD France
e).Institute of Biology
f). Royal
Agricultural
Society of the Netherlands
g)
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
h) Agromisa for information
on small scale tropical agriculture
i). Pastoral Systems
k). Organisations Associated with
Sustainable Agriculture
l). Animal
Health Information Services
m) British Food
Standards Agency
n) The Overseas Pensioners Association
o) Calum Coburn Associates offers free articles, advice and
newsletters.Negotiation
Skills
Training Sales negotiating skills courses and consultancy.
p).
http://www.the-science-lab.com/Agriculture/Sustainable-Agriculture.html.
q) India Society of
Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP),
r)Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen,
Netherlands
s) Association of Applied Biologists
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| 6).
Information from Projects |
a).Information
about
the Mekong Delta
b). The Hunger Web; make a free
donation of food to hungry people around the world. |
| Books and periodicals |
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| 7. Books: |
a)T he Tropical
Agriculturalist Series by Macmillan is available free from CTA
to certain institutions in ACP countries
b). Books Published by Macmillan
Africa
c).Books received by TAA
for review
d). Intermediate Technology Group
Publications
e) Amazon
f). Waterstones |
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| 8. Journals: |
a).Experimental Agriculture:
This Journal is
available at less than half price for members of
TAA from Cambridge University press
b). Pesticides
News, The Journal of the Pesticides Trust
c). Sources of Reliable
Information in Agriculture, Forestry and Health |
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9. On Line Journals
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a).New Agriculturalist
b).Tropical
Agriculture(Oxford University).
c).African Journals
On-Line
d).Livestock Research for
Rural Development (1)
e).Social, Cultural and
Educational Issues in Africa
f) On line Journals from Africa
(INASP) -International network for availability of scientific
publications
Most
African researchers cannot get
access to up-to-date research in their subject: university libraries
cannot afford the journals. Neither can they publish research easily
– African journals do not circulate widely. The same is true, to a
greater
or lesser extent, in other developing countries.
The
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
is radically changing this picture. Over the next five years, all
researchers with internet connections
in up to 40 countries will get online access to over 6000 journals,
and abstracts from another 20,000 titles - from African Development
Review to the Veterinary Journal. Publishers have agreed country-
wide access licences at very heavily reduced rates. At the same
time, INASP is helping journals published in developing countries to go
online and providing the opportunity for a range of ‘Internet’
training to help ensure that the information available is utilised to
its fullest potential.
g). Quality Assurance Agency for Higher
Education - Subject Benchmarks
h). CABI Agricultural
Compendium
i). Newsletter
on Watershed Managment Michigan State University
j).LEISA Low External Input Sustainable
Agriculture
k). International Network for the
Availability of Scientific Publications and also
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9a) Searchable Databases
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1)
Wageningen
Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands (site in
English) : http://www.wau.nl/welcome.hmtl.
Full explanation for browsing in English
and free/open databases. (Also a portal for staff/student
access to restricted servers - some members perhaps qualify for
these).
Library services include free bilingual helpdesk and (paying) photocopy
service or ditto email postings. Email copies of journal articles are
currently 45 Eurocents/page. Minimum charge: 3.20 Euro/order. Visa and
Mastercards are accepted online.
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2)
Rijksuniversitiet,
Gent (State University), Ghent, Belgium : http://www.rug.ac.be, then click on
"English version" on webpage.
General Comment: Commands are not always bilingual Dutch/English on
every page on either University
site, so a pocket Dutch-English phrasebook/dictionary is a good
investment. (Dutch-speaking programmers, however, generally retain US
computerspeak. Furthermore, many Dutch
search terms come easily to English speakers : Author
= auteur; Title = Titel, etc. Online helpdesks are bilingual.
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3)
From:
Mark Jackson [mailto:m.jackson@RBGKEW.ORG.UK]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 4:48 AM
Subject: New online service from Kew
Kew Gardens has released the first stage in
a new online information resource discovery service called
ePIC, the electronic
Plant Information Centre. From the ePIC interface at http://www.kew.org/epic/ you can
now search for plant information across 4 databases held at Kew in one
action. Over the next 2 years we will be extending the features, and
adding many more databases to this system, with the intention of
ultimately including all of our major collections, bibliographies,
taxonomic and species-based datasets. The first release includes:
a) the International Plant Names Index
b) bibliographic data in the Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature
c) information about the economic uses of plants in the Survey of
Economic Plants of Arid and Semi-Arid Lands
d) our Living Collection of c30,000 plant taxa
Taxacomers are invited to try out the service, and please let us have
your comments by email to epicfeedback@kew.org.
Also Kew, is currently working to put
its Economic Botany Bibliographic Database on line as a free
resource
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/data/ecbot-biblio.html
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Tropical Feeds http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/AGP/AGPC/doc/GBASE/Default.htm
Country Pasture Resource profiles http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/AGP/AGPC/doc/pasture/forage.htm
A
much
improved information network EARD-InfoSys+ has now been launched
at: http://www.infosysplus.org
EARD-InfoSys+ provides information on Agricultural Research (ARD)
throughout Europe though some countries contributions are patchy to say
the least. The restructured database permits to explore the ARD
landscape and offers an advanced
search for organisations, projects, experts and funding opportunities
in
ARD. Important news and events in the field of ARD are displayed in the
"news
& events" section.One of the new services of EARD-InfoSys+ is the
e-mail
ALERT news service. As a registered user you will be informed via
e-mail
on new data entries in your field of interest. You can define your
profile
of interest in the ALERT registration form.
Click here to register for e-mail alert: http://www.infosysplus.org/alert/alert_index.php?alert_start=1
You can also benefit from the alert service by publishing own
information on EARD-InfoSys+. Enter your information at
http://www.infosysplus.org/input/index.php Your information will
then automatically be sent out to all registered
users with a matching profile of interest. You can present your
expertise, promote your organisation and inform about your projects and
activities. This
tool permits registered users to keep a good overview of ongoing
projects, funding possibilities and important workshops and
conferences. Obviously the
more people use this service, the better it gets. It would therefore be
very
kind of you to forward this information to interested colleagues. This
is
being run by Marc Bernard, Manager of EARD-InfoSys+ at ZADI
bernard@zadi.de German
Centre
for Documentation and Information in Agriculture (ZADI) Tel: +49
228
9548 364 Fax: : +49 228 9548 111
Web:
ARD-Information: www.infosysplus.org
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Rural development: www.runetwork.de
Information on working group at ZADI: www.isicad.org
ZADI: www.zadi.de/index_e.htm
News-Alert via E-Mail (registration):
www.infosysplus.org/news/alert/alert.php
Contact National Nodes of InfoSys+ Network:
www.infosysplus.org/about_infosys/nodes.html
Postal Address:
Villichgasse 17
D-53177 Bonn
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| 11.
Travel Information |
a).Health Advice for Travellers
b). Rough Guides to Travel
c).Travel Resources
d). Maps of Major Cities
e)
Relative
values of the Pound against Foreign Currencies
f).
EC
Euro
Exchange Rate Site
g)
Railway
Timetable for the United Kingdom
h) UK Railway information
and seat reservation
i). Online Train Booking
with trainline
j ). United Kingdom
based Airlines
k). Airline Booking on the web
i). Hotels
j). Travel Advice
from UK Government
k). Package your own
holiday
j ). Accommodation
m) Useful travel
sites
n) Bed and
Breakfast sites within the UK
o) Ecologically
sound travel to himalayan villages
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Consultants |
a.) List of
consultants concerned with development
b). List of
international consultants
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Languages |
a).On
line translation program for several European languages
a1)The new
address for the translation program above
b).BBC
Languages
on Line
c).Equipe (OUP French
Course)
d).The
really
Useful French Teaching Site
e). Virtual
Language Class (French)
f). Learn Spanish
g).Webspanol
h).United
Nations
Radio in Spanish
i).CyberLatin
j).German for Beginners
k). English Grammar
l). Routes of
English
m)
Advice
on Spanish from Peru
n) On line language learning
- Spanish (1)
o). On line
language learning - Spanish (2)
p) Learn Spanish for
Free
r) Spanish language courses in Cusco
Peru
s) Learn Spanish in
Seville, Spain
t) Learn Spanish in
Peru with the wiracocha
school
u) Amauta Spanish School:
Learn spanish in Cusco, Peru. Spanish immersion courses in Peru.:http://www.amautaspanish.com
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| 15).
Information on Africa |
a).Index on Africa(2000
links to African Web Sites)
b).Telecommunications
in
Africa
c).Agricultural
Information
Database for Southern Africa (PRAIS)
d)Information on
Africa
e). United Nations Office for
Coordinating Humanitarian Affairs(A lot of current information about
Africa) |
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