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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog - Luigi Guarino and Jeremy Cherfas aim to include on this blog, nuggets of information on anything that relates to agrobiodiversity, and welcome contributions from others.

Agriculture 21 - Food and Agriculture Organization's agriculture website. Includes a news magazine plus guides and links to information on livestock, biotechnology, land/water development, crop production, plant protection, agricultural support systems.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Provides information, research and technology, and policies and programs to achieve security of the food system, health of the environment and innovation for growth.

Alternative Agriculture Marketing and Business Practices - AFSIC's overview of marketing and business options for small-scale agricultural producers covers direct marketing, value-added expertise, commodity data, regulatory programs, business planning tools, subject guides and web sites.

Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, NAS/NRC - Part of U.S. National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. Topics on site include animal nutrition, pesticides, and federal funding of agricultural research.

CIAT: International Center for Tropical Agriculture - Carries out research into agriculture and crops. Details of projects, regional activities, educational information, project databases.

COST Action 866: Green Care in Agriculture - International co-operative project to increase scientific knowledge on the best way to implement green care in agriculture, through research and working groups.

EARD InfoSys - European Information System on Agricultural Research website. Links and information on research on crops, agricultural, and fisheries topics.

The Earth's Carrying Capacity - Some Literature Reviews - A review spread over hundreds of pages, of the global literature on degradation of soils, crop, grazing and forest lands, and fisheries.

EliteFarmer - Collection of PDF files and links, grouped by sector, providing an agricultural portal for products, services and information.

FieldRobotEvent - The use of autonomous, small robots in agriculture is expected to revolutionize field work. Professional, university or school teams are invited to enter their robots for an open-air field contest.

FoodSHIELD - Web-based food defence network designed to enable departments of agriculture and health, as well as laboratories, to communicate and coordinate with their peers in the US and Canada.

GARDEN-InfoSys+ - Maps the German landscape of agricultural research for development (ARD) and offers access to German web resources in ARD.

National Institute of Agricultural Botany - Independent UK body specialising in agriculture, horticulture and food. It supplies a number of services including consultancy, training, and technical advice to governments, supra-governmental agencies, agribusiness and farmers.

Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Forestry - Provides resources for the integration of agriculture into urban planning. Website holds a number of papers and links to related sites.

The Small Farm Resource - Aims to disseminate information of use to people with small farms or rural property. Topics include aquaculture, beekeeping, livestock, orchard and forage crops, and pests.

Urban Agriculture News - News service that provides a review of daily news and publishes monthly newsletters serving the community of practitioners, developers and theorists that are planning and practicing agriculture within cities.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - Describes its main functions, and with a collection of links on current agricultural news and research.

World Agricultural Group - Publishes articles on agriculture and related topics as part of a program for agricultural and environmental education intended to provide basic knowledge about the agro-ecosystem and its management.