Useful websites:
FAO resources
General
Agriculture & Animal Science
Forestry
FAO website resources
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is a major source of information and has a number of specialised sources listed below:
FAO Official Website (http://www.fao.org/) - Official website of the FAO of the UN
AGRIS Agricultural Research Information System (http://www.fao.org/agris/Centre.asp?Content=DB&Menu_1ID=DB&Menu_2ID=DB1&Language=EN) -
WebAGRIS is a complete, multilingual Web-based system for distributed data input, processing and dissemination.
CountrySTAT Official Website (http://www.fao.org/countrystat/) - Official website of the FAO of the UN CountrySTAT Programme
FAO Census of Agriculture (http://www.fao.org/es/ess/census/default.asp)
FAO Documents in Full Text (http://www.fao.org/documents/) - The FAO Corporate Document Repository houses FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications, in electronic format. It enables users to easily access the knowledge and information produced by FAO directly on the Internet.
FAO Regional Data Exchange System (http://www.faorap-apcas.org/index.htm) - RDES is an internet-based facility for storing and exchanging agricultural statistics among participating countries in the Asia and Pacific region.
FAOSTAT Official Website (http://faostat.fao.org/) - Official website of the FAO UN FAOSTAT Database
Food Security (http://www.fao.org/es/ess/faostat/foodsecurity/index_en.htm) - FAO Food Security site
GEONETWORK (http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home) - find and analyse geospatial data
UN FAO Statistics Division (http://www.fao.org/es/ess/)
Flora of Bhutan http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=flora+of+bhutan
WAICENT World Agricultural Information Centre U (http://www.fao.org/waicent/) - WAICENT serves as a corporate framework for agricultural information management and dissemination. This is a strategic effort established by FAO to fight hunger with information.
General
BIOSIS - Life Sciences Browser (http://www.biologybrowser.org/) - BiologyBrowser is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community, including news, downloadable documents and links to web pages.
ICIMOD (http://www.icimod.org) - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. CNR library receives ICIMOD publications on deposit, but you can also download all publications since 2008 free in .pdf format at this website, and find other useful information
International Plant Names Index (http://ipni.org/index.html)
Wolfram Alpha (http://www16.wolframalpha.com/)- a computational knowledge engine generating output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base.
World Atlas of Biodiversity (http://stort.unep-wcmc.org/imaps/gb2002/book/viewer.htm) - a detailed atlas produced by the UN Environment Programme
Agriculture & Animal Science
ACIAR — Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.(http://www.aciar.gov.au/) - lists projects undertaken around the world by the Centre
AgEcon — (http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/) electronically distributes reports of scholarly research in the field of agricultural economics
International Crop Research institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) (http://www.icrosat.org) - research organization serving semi arid areas of the developing world.
Organic ePrints (http://www.orgprints.org/) - is an international open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture. The archive contains full-text papers in electronic form together with bibliographic information, abstracts and other metadata.
SAARC Agrinet (http://www.saarcagri.net/)- home page of the SAARC Agricultural Research Centre. Contains a number of useful regional links.
Forestry
Agroforestree (http://www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/resources/databases/agroforestree)- database compiled by the World Agroforestry Centre
International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) (http://www.iufro.org)