• Agricultural Development and Child Nutrition: What do We Know?
  2000, Food Security II Policy Synthesis #52

• Agriculture, Food and Nutrition for Africa: A Resource Book for Teachers of Agriculture
  Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the U.N., 1997

• Increasing Nutritional Impacts of Agricultural Interventions
  by Patricia Bonnard, FANTA Project

• Linkages Between Agricultural Growth and Improved Child Nutrition in Mali
  by James Tefft, Christopher Penders, Valerie Kelly, John M. Staatz, Mbaye Yade, and Victoria Wise, 2000, MSU International Development Working Paper #79. In Adobe pdf, 209 KB.

Biotechnology

• African Crop Improvement Website - www.africancrops.net
  Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops - An Activity of the Rockefeller Foundation Food Security Program

• Biotechnology and Development Monitor
  This quarterly journal analyses world-wide developments in biotechnology, and trade and technology related international regulation, in the context of its socio-economic implications for developing countries. The Monitor maintains a rigorously independent position and is not linked to any organization with vested interests in biotechnology.

• Biotechnology and Food Security
  by Lorraine Mitchell, USDA/ERS Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 765-11, June 2001

• CARE and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
  by Avtar Kaul, CARE-USA with assistance from Lili Crymes, Theodore Hutchcroft, and Clark Efaw, 2001 (Adobe pdf, 952 KB)
  Regional Papers by Seyfu Katema, Subhash Nautiyal, and Eliana Fontes

• Questions and Answers on U.S. Food Aid Donations Containing Bio-Engineered Crops
  by USAID, 2003 (Adobe pdf, 62 KB)

• The Use of Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries
  Discussion Paper by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, June 2003. Download the entire paper (651 KB, Adobe pdf) or only the Summary & Recommendations (175.2 KB).

• U.S. Regulatory Agencies Unified Biotechnology Website
  Provides a database of all food and feed crops which have completed all recommended and required reviews at their respective US regulatory agency; a joint project of USDA/APHIS, EPA, and FDA.

• AFAMIN: African Agricultural Market Information Network
  Focusing on West Africa - also available in French.

• Does Food Aid Effect Crop Marketing? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
  by Takashi Yamano, Thomas Jayne, and John Strauss, 2000, Adobe pdf

• The Effects of HIV/AIDS on Farming Systems in Eastern Africa
  FAO Farm Management and Production Economics Service

• Getting off the Seeds-and-tools Treadmill With CRS Seed Vouchers and Fairs
  by Edward Charles, Jeremiah Maroko, Paul Omanga, Tom Remington, and Stephen Walsh, Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Adobe pdf, 214 KB
  This article originally appeared in "Disasters" Magazine, 2002 26(4), and is posted here with the authors' permission.

• Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK)
  by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

• Livestock and Livelihoods in Emergencies: Lessons Learnt from the 1999-2001 Emergency Response in the Pastoral Sector in Kenya
  by Yacob Aklilu and Mike Wekesa, Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University, Working Paper #3, 2001, Adobe pdf, (Caution! Large file: 1.3 MB)

• Prediction, Impact and Control Variables for Agricultural Field Research Evaluation
  by Joe Tabor, for Food Aid Management (FAM), 2000

• Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook
  Edward B. Radcliffe & William D. Hutchinson, Eds., University of Minnesota, 2001
  Also available in Spanish.

• Seed Vouchers and Fairs: A Manual for Seed-based Agricultural Recovery in Africa
  by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in collaboration with Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), 2002, Adobe pdf (Caution! Large file: 1 MB)

• Seed Vouchers and Fairs: Moving to Version 2.0
  by Tom Remington, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), 2003.  Read about lessons learned and improvements to the SV&F approach. (Adobe pdf, 32 KB)

Monitoring

• Agricultural Productivity Indicators Guide
  FANTA Project, Title II Indicator Guides Series, 1997

• Baseline Survey for UMCOR/Georgia Community Agricultural Program (CAP)
  March 2000, Adobe pdf (214 KB)

• Review of Agriculture Project Baseline Surveying Methods of Title II-Funded PVOs: Part 1, Socio-economic Methods
  by Patricia Bonnard, 1998, FAM M&E Toolkit, Adobe pdf (161 KB)

Online Libraries

• Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC)
  A guide to quality agricultural information on the internet, as selected by the National Agricultural Library (U.S.), Land-Grant universities, and other institutions. Search for a multitude of agriculture topics on the internet via this fast-downloading web site.

• Agricultural Research and Extension Network (AgREN)
  Links policy-makers, practitioners and researchers in the agriculture sector of developing countries - over 900 members in more than 100 countries participate (60% of the membership reside in the developing world).  Web site contains program and project information and links to online research and position papers.

• AgroWeb
  Considering the need of information about agricultural topics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the agricultural information organisations and experts of the region have decided to collect and provide information on agricultural institutions and other important agriculture related subjects to help users to find information and contacts in CEE countries and former USSR. This initiative is facilitated by the regional chapter of International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD CEE) as well as FAO Sub-Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe.

• InfoAgrar
  Agricultural Information and Documentation Service for Development Cooperation, sponsored by the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC).  The site provides an online, searchable database of SDC's library of over 7,000 documents on tropical and sub-tropical agriculture.

• Info-Finder
  A collaborative effort between CGIAR, Future Harvest Centers, and FAO's WAICENT databases, this powerful search engine allows you to search all 3 entities web sites for digital information, using a variety of parameters.

• Resource Center on Urban Agriculture and Forestry (RUAF)
  This five-year project aims to integrate urban agriculture in policies and plans of city authorities and facilitate projects on urban agriculture with the involvement of all stakeholders.  Regional focal points lie mostly in the developing world. Web site includes a magazine in English, French, and Spanish, as well as an online resource center and list of links.

• Web-Agri
  Internet-based agriculture search engine.  Search over 600,000 agriculture-related pages!  Also available in French.

Urban Agriculture

• Cities Feeding People
  Urban agriculture program of the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada.  Provides program and project information, online searchable database of resources, links, and a list of resource contacts.

• Facilitating Land Access for the Copperbelt's Peri-Urban Farmers: An Interest-Based Approach
  by Gail Steckley, CARE Canada, and Mike Muleba, CARE Zambia, 2001, Adobe pdf (55 KB)

• Urban Agriculture Notes
  Website produced by Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture includes huge lists of regional-specific links (eg, Africa, Asia, and Latin America) to documents and groups promoting food growth in urban environments.