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Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary
Ag BioTech InfoNet Ag BioTech InfoNet covers all aspects of the application of biotechnology and genetic engineering in agricultural production and food processing and marketing. It focuses 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. It offers a road-map to the wealth of resources on the Internet where interested individuals can access original documents and more detailed information from a variety of sources.
AgBioForum: the Journal of Agrobiotechnology Management EconomicsIt publishes articles which enhance the on-going dialogue on the economics and management of agricultural biotechnology.
AgBioWorldAgBioWorld aims to provide science-based information on agricultural biotechnology issues to various stakeholders across the world. AgBioWorld's free electronic newsletter, AgBioView, is a "must read" source of news, research updates and commentary for anyone interested in the latest on advances in plant science, agricultural research and sustainable food production.
Agmachine.comIt is the largest specialised directory of agricultural machinery and farm equipment manufacturers on the internet with over 3,700 company listings in 63 countries worldwide, including over 2,300 direct links to company websites. Agmachine.com also contains significant sources for Used Farm Machinery, Replacement Parts, News, Publications, Events, Institutions and much more
AgNIC: Agriculture Network Information Center A distributed network that provides access to agriculture related information and subject area guides, such as economics, animal science, food science, plant science, forestry, and natural resources. An online reference service is also included.
Agricola Includes serials, journal articles, books, book chapters, audiovisuals, short reports, reprints and other resources.
AgriFor AgriFor offers free access to a searchable catalogue of quality reviewed Internet resources in agriculture, food and forestry. New resources are added to the database on a weekly basis.
A free archive of life sciences journals PubMed Central (PMC)is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
Africa South of the Sahara Database: Social Science Institutions and Periodicals UNESCO provides information on the region's social science research and training institutes and periodicals. Users may search the database by record type, institution, country, specialist, periodical title, ISSN and keyword
Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources Stanford University provides collection of websites on Africa South of Sahara
Agricultural Research Organizations on the Web (AROW): The site contains a worldwide directory of organizations and universities working in agricultural research that have a home page on the Web. [The web page is designed and maintained by ISNAR]
African Crops Net A Website on Genetic Improvement of African Crops and Seed Systems
Africover public Domain databases Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has made available Africover public Domain databases. This database holds environmental resources for Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
AgriSurf Search engine specialising in agriculture with many links listed by subject. Designed for farmers, agribusiness people, farm press, educators and others to find out what they need to know about agriculture rapidly.
AgView A search and index tool to help navigate the Internet for data, information and resources related to agriculture.
Alpha Dictionary Site Search 992 Online English Dictionaries at Once!
Animal Traction Network for Eastern and Southern Africa This web site provides information on what is ATNESA?; past workshops publications; committee and contacts; national networks; documents by country; documents by theme; future events; partner organisations; and search function
Answers This web site gives the best definitions and explanations for over one million topics
AskFAO AskFAO is a service driven by user information needs, providing answers to queries related to the organization's areas of expertise. Working with FAO offices around the world as well as with our partner organizations, it provides a mechanism to communicate directly with technical experts in a particular field of interest
Agriculture: Country Profiles (from ELDIS database)
Agriculture : Conferences, meetings etc.
Agriculture : Conferences, meetings etc.
Agriculture : Internet links by Country
Agriculture : Internet resources
Agriculture : Online Books - an electronic collection of the most important agricultural texts published between the early 19th century and the mid-20th century. The collection includes 825 full-text monographs with over 300,000 scanned pages covering topics from agricultural economics and engineering to food and soil science
Agriculture : Organizations
Agriculture : Virtual Library
Agriculture : National Agricultural Library (NAL)
Agriculture: Web Index
AgNic:Agriculture Network Information Center
APSnet: American Phytopathological Society Net
Arid Lands Newsletter: Semiannual publication of the Arid Lands Information Center (ALIC) at The Office of Arid Lands Studies, College of Agriculture, The University of Arizona. [Full text available online]
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Best Practices In the spirit of FAO's stronger focus on knowledge sharing, this new FAO Best Practices Web site provides a series of summaries that introduce some best practices in FAO's areas of expertise. It also provides links to further resources with supporting technical information
Beyond Pesticides Beyond Pesticides provides useful information on pesticides and alternatives to their use, topics also covered in Beyond Pesticides' quarterly news magazine, Pesticides and You; monthly news bulletin,Technical Report; Daily News website service; and, the bi-monthly bulletin, School Pesticide Monitor. The organization also publishes a wide variety of brochures, information packets, and reports.
BiGpedia This is really an amazing online encyclopedia where you can learn about almost anything under the sun!
BINAS Online The Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service (BINAS)is a service of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). BINAS monitors global developments in regulatory issues in biotechnology.
Biotechnology Information Directory This directory contains over 3000 links to companies, research institutes, universities, sources of information and other directories specific to biotechnology, pharmaceutical development and related fields. It places emphasis on product development and the delivery of products and services.
Biotechnology News/Newsletters/Journals Biotechnology News Newsletters from around US and the world
Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops An Activity of The Rockefeller Foundation Food Security Program. It focuses mainly on biotechnology, breeding and seed systems.
BUBL Information Service BUBL LINK Catalogue: Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas
Biodiversity
Biodiversity: Global Data by World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Biodiversity: Country Profiles
Biological Control Agents: Nematodes
Bio Online: Highly Trafficked Web Resource for Life Sciences
Biopesticides
Biosciences: Virtual Library
Biotechnology: Conferences, meetings etc.
Biotechnology: Information Sources and Research Sites
Biotechnology: Publications
Biotechnology: Virtual Library
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CABI Databases on Fungi Here you can search the database for the status of generic names, or walk down the hierarchy from the rank of Kingdom. The entries for each genus generally include authors and place of publication together with the type species (linked to Index Fungorum)and other data. A database of family names which includes authors, place of publication and type genus (linked to the Dictionary of the Fungi hierarchy)is now supplemented by one which contains names at all supra-familial ranks although it is far from completion
Cambridge Dictionaries on line It is a free online dictionary available in this website
Comparative Grass Genomics Center You can find the genetic and/or physical location of a mapped sorghum probe. You can also get comparative map data -- identify regions of synteny within sorghum or between sorghum and maize. you can download map locations for all of probes, diversity data, and physical map related data files for S. bicolor or S. propinquum. Learn about more about soghrum in this website.
Compendium of Pesticide Common Names Alphabetical index of pesticide names commonly used for the purposes of trade, registration and legislation, and within publications. Gives details of the status, formula, and activity of each substance.
Country Briefings - Economist Intelligence Unit The web sites provides country briefings from the Economist
Crop technology Presents unbiased, research-based information through lesson modules focused on plant genetics, genetic engineering, and biochemistry. These lessons are composed of text enhanced with images, animations, a hyper-linked glossary and quizzes. Extension educators, journalists, businesses, college professors and high school teachers from around the world have used these lessons
Chickpea Chloraticdwarf Virus
Chickpea filiform virus
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Database of IPM Resources Database of IPM Resources (DIR)is an information retrieval and referral system and a compendium of customized directories of worldwide IPM information resources accessible through the Internet. With DIR, one can quickly find the way to thousands of IPM information sites. The DIR presents these web resources in a logical, structured, and searchable way that greatly reduces the frustration and disappointment often encountered when using general search engines on the web. The DIR covers a wide array of crops, pests, control tactics, regions, organizations, and related topics in a user-friendly format. DIR's contents span most of the disciplines involved in IPM.
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Eldis Gateway to Development Information The database of the web site holds 14,850 online documents, 4,500 organisations, and 15,000 email messages
Encyclopedia.com Encyclopedia.com, the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by HighBeam Research
EurekAlert EurekAlert is a news server for up-to-date research in science, medicine and technology. News posted daily by major research providers. Includes press releases, with a search facility, links to the home pages of peer-reviewed journals, and links to popular research magazines.
ELDIS - Gateway to Development Information (IDS/DANIDA): Eldis is a gateway to online information on development in countries of the South. Coverage includes social, economic, political and environmental issues. Full text of documents available on the site.
EliteFarmer Aims to disseminate information of use to people with small farms or rural property. Topics include farm equipment, garden, landscape, machinery, farmer market, services, farm property, employment, pesticides, livestock, crops, seeds, pest control and much more. Most documents are in pdf format.
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FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System The system integrates country-based information from FAO's thematic and statistical databases. Provides country profiles on the state of food, nutrition and agriculture.
FAOSTAT This site provides online access to databases on agriculture, nutrition, fisheries, forestry, food quality control, production, trade, food balance sheets, fertilizer and pesticides, population, agricultural machinery, and food aid shipments. Data is returned by querying the databases, and is then available for download.
Find Articles Search Engine The full text of mainly more popular magazines (though a small number of scholarly/primary journals are also included). Only the text of articles is provided; accompanying pictures and graphics are not included. Coverage extends from 1998-present; science-related sections of this service include. Search millions of articles from leading academic, industry and general interest publications. We give you free access to information you can trust, from a collection you'll only find here
Free Dictionary This site brings to you answers from English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and has a Search Engine all in one!
Free Online Full-text Articles HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content, with 878 journals and 1,027,449 free, full-text articles online. With our partner publishers we produce 72 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals.
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Gene Campaign: Free Publications This site contains the following free publications: (1)Importance of Indigenous Knowledge Oppose UOPV! Save Farmers!: Gene Campaign's Legal Action Against Indian Government (2)Plant Variety Protection And Farmers' Rights Act, 2001 Can India Handle GM Technology? (3)Intellectual Property and Indigenous Knowledge- A Case Of Unjust Discrimination (4)Bhartiya Krishi aur Khadya Suraksha ke Sandharbh Mein Anuvanshik Produyigiki ki Sarthakta (Hindi)(5)Biopiracy: Imitations Not Innovations Joint Campaign on Farmers' Rights (6)What the forest gives us :- Poster (7)Why we should save our forests? (8)Why India / Developing Countries need an alternative to UPOV. (9)Why India must reject patenting of plants? (10)Urgent need to establish ownership over our biological wealth' (11)Plant Variety Act : The Government's New Seed Law (12)Indian Agriculture after GATT Indian position on IPR issues (13)(14)GATT and WTO: Some Questions? (15)Why Gene Campaign opposes patents on plants and other life forms? (16)Beyond X- Raying Dunkel: Is the farmer and the country really being protected ? (17)Saving Indian Agriculture (18)Assault on Bioresources For Free Publication Please Download or Just Send a Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope to Us. GENE CAMPAIGN J-235/A, Lane No. W 15 C, Sainik Farms, New Delhi - 110062 (India)Ph:+91-11-29556248, 29556841 Fax:+91-11-29555961 E-mail: genecamp@vsnl.com
Glossary of Biotechnology Terms This glossary covers biotechnology, biology, biochemistry, and chemistry.
Great Books Online The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellecutually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
Genomic Lexicon
GIS Development
Glossary of Arthropod Terms
Glossary of Biotechnology Terms
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HighBeam Library Research Search our extensive archive of more than 35 million documents from over 3,000 sources -- a vast collection of articles from leading publications, updated daily and going back as far as 20 years. Save your searches, save articles and set up alerts to save time and increase your efficiency
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Infoplease Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938 first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet at www.infoplease.com. Many things have changed since 1938, but not our dedication to providing reliable information, in a way that engages and entertains. s
International Journal of Biological Sciences The scope of the Journal includes cell biology, developmental biology, structural biology, microbiology, molecular biology genetics, biochemistry, biotechnology, biodiversity, ecology, marine biology, plant biology, and bioinformatics. Articles of cross-disciplined research between biology and mathematics, physics, information science, material science and others are also considered. Selected papers from scientific meetings may be published as special issues of the Journal.
Internet Glossary of Soil Science Terms This 2001 revision replaces the 1997 edition and includes major revisions and additions. Sincere thanks are expressed to the many members of the society who have aided in the development of this glossary over the years.
IPMnetNEWS This newsletter provides the IPM news, medley, research/technical papers, US regional pest management centers and IPM calendar.
Issues in Science and Technology 1996+ Published by the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society at the University of Texas at Dallas
Indian Agriculture
Intellectual Property Network
IPM Almanac
IPM Definitions
IPMnet
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Lost Crops of Africa: Vol. 1:Grains includes, finger millets, pearl millets, sorghum etc. (Full text of the document)
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Management of Organic Inputs in Soils of the Tropics Groups
Merriam-Webster Online This web site holds both Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Metafro Infosys Metafro - Infosys stands for Metadata African Organization - Information System. It is a catalogue of data sets and data sources related to Central Africa (including Angola, Burundi and Rwanda). Our data set includes documents, metadata information on institutions and research projects, library catalogues and collections.
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Nature Science Update 2000+ Nature Science Update (Features--2000-present; News--most current 3 months)An authoritative and accessible online round-up of what's new in science research, updated daily at midnight GMT by the Nature News Service. The Nature News Service is the popular science syndication arm of the premier international science publisher, the Nature Publishing Group.
New Scientist: Hot Topics Several full text articles available for each of 15+ "hot topics"; in depth reports on the most exciting areas of Science
New Agriculturist : On-line agriculture magazine containing news of what’s happening now and of developments that are on line to bring benefits to those who work in the agricultural sector.
NSSN: A National Resource for Global Standard : Serves as a central point to search for standards information from many sources and serves as an important gateway  to those that supply them.
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OAIster OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. Our goal is to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources (what are digital resources?)that are easily searchable by anyone.
OneLook Dictionary Search Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLookr search engine.
Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science Joan M. Reitz maintains the web site that contains Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science.
Organizations in the Sahel This web directory lists the organizations working in the field of sustainable crop production, land/water/natural resource, livestock, and rural livelihood
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PLANTS National Database Home Page A site including a large database of plant names, a plant Photo Gallery, Plant Fact Sheets, Information about Culturally Significant Plants, Information about Noxious and Invasive Plants, Plant Characteristics Information, Threatened and Endangered Plant
Population Reference Bureau
Patents and Trademarks : Resource Directory  : Contains online patent database(s), information on Patent Attorneys, Patent Classifications, etc.
People and Plants Online
Peanut Update2005
Pigeon pea : a medicinal plant?
Pigeon pea : It's more than a pulse crop
Pigeon pea : legume suppress weeds in pigeon pea
Pigeon pea : a potential new crop for US
Publishers-a selected list
Publishers online- an Alphabetical list
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Rain Water Harvesting in India The Center for Science and Environment (CSE), India has dedicated this website on rain water harvesting. The website disseminate CSE activities on water harvesting in India. It uses Google search engine to search web pages avaialble in their web servers.
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Science Technology Review 1995+ The mission of Science Technology Review is to communicate, to a broad audience, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's scientific and technological accomplishments, particularly in the core mission areas of the Laboratory. This publication does more than just inform people of these accomplishments; it helps readers understand them and appreciate their value to the individual citizen, the nation, and the world.
Science News 1994+ Selected full text articles available for each issue of a weekly newsmagazine covering the most important research in all fields of science
Search Engines 2 Search Engines 2 offers over 12,500 links to local, regional, national, and foreign internet search engines, web directories, pay per click search engines and meta search engines; many of which accept free/paid web site submissions and advertising.
Soil Maps of Africa It navigates the DVD "Africa Map Archive" and displays Maps of Africa (2,010 maps of Africa sorted by Country, Scale, Year and Keyword)
SoilWeb It holds interesting soil web sites.
Sorghum and millet breeding in West Africa in practice by I D K Atokple This paper attempts to highlight the strategies and achievement of sorghum and millet breeding on the continent so far, identify the existing gaps and define the future approach for greater impact.
Scirus database: 60 million science related pages from the Web as well as membership sources such as ScienceDirect, MEDLINE on BioMedNet, Beilstein on ChemWeb and Neuroscion.
Searching in the Sciences
Sorghum: Educational Information
Sorghum Handbook
Sorghum, grain: Newsletter (Kansas)
Sorghum spp.
Sustainable Agriculture Network
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The open archive for Library and Information Science
The State of Food and Agriculture 2003-2004: Agricultural Biotechnology Meeting the needs of the poor? This document in PDF is free to download. This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture published by the FAO explores the potential for agricultural biotechnology to address the needs of the world's poor and food-insecure
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Vivisimo Vivísimo's search and clustering solutions are based on a powerful new approach that organizes search results into meaningful categories without requiring any preprocessing of documents. Our comprehensive content search and clustering solution requires no preexisting taxonomy, yet works to enhance existing taxonomies where they exist
Voice on Intellectual Property Rights, Biotechnology, Community-based Plant Genetic Resources
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Water Conserve - Water Conservation Portal Water Conserve is a Water Conservation Portal and Internet Search Tool that provides access to reviewed water conservation news and information
Webopedia The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology definitions.
World Climates The web page has topics such as world climate zones; some facts about climate; seasons; Köppen climate classification system and more...
WORLDINFORMATION.COM It provides country related information on key business sectors in the world's major markets. The business sectors covered include finance, international investment, property and energy. It also provides information on every country in the world, from the Head of State to exports to natural resources to election results and airport departure taxes. As international trade develops, WORLDINFORMATION.COM provides a convenient reference source on major trends and developments worldwide. For everyone with an active interest in the world's major markets, WORLDINFORMATION.COM promises to be an essential resource.
Worldwide Portal to Information on Soil Health The Worldwide Portal to Information on Soil Health currently offers an extensive database of annotated English and Spanish language resources on the World Wide Web that can be accessed through an XML-based search engine; a subject-specific browsing library; an on-line resource reference service; and classified resource listings for products, services, organizations, databases, and literature. Also available through the Portal are archives of soil health electronic discussion groups and on-line learning modules keyed to discussions occurring on English, Spanish and French electronic discussion groups managed by TropSCORE members.
Web-Agri: The first real agricultural search engine. You can search your information on 100.000 web pages
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Your Dictionary yourDictionary.com is a language products and services company that maintains the most comprehensive and authoritative language portal on the web with more than 2500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages, games that build language skills, and a forum (The Agora)for discussing language issues with the logophile community. More than 1,000,000 people a month visit our website.

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