Agriculture
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Encyclopedia of food and agricultural sciences engineering and technology resources (online)
Encyclopedia of agricultural, food, and biological engineering 2003
Encyclopedia of biotechnology in agriculture and food 2011
Encyclopedia of soil science 2008 (online)
Encyclopedia of water sciences engineering and technology resources 2005 (online)
Encyclopedia of water science 2003
Encyclopedia of dairy sciences 2011 (online)
Official methods of analysis of AOAC International (online)
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC International is a source of analytical methods for both agricultural and food products used worldwide. The online version is a continuous edition (based on the 18th edition) with new and revised methods posted as soon as approved and ready.
Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook (print and online)
Interpreting soil test results: what do all the numbers mean? (print and online)
Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources (print and online)
The handbook of research on entrepreneurship in agriculture and rural development 2011 (online)
Plant nematodes of agricultural importance 2007 (online)
Handbook of precision agriculture : principles and applications 2006
Handbook of fruits and fruit processing 2012 (online)
Handbook of climate change and agroecosystems: impacts, adaptation, and mitigation 2011 (online)
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
Bibliographic database covering international research and development literature in agriculture, animal health, forestry, human health and nutrition, and management and conservation of natural resources. As well as the journal literature, coverage includes selected conference proceedings, books and reports.
Covers all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. Agricola is the US National Agricultural Library Catalog and Article Citation Database, indexing journal articles, book chapters, reports, audiovisual and other material. Since 2006 Agricola has reduced its journal coverage.
AGRIS is an FAO databases covering all aspects of agriculture, including forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, human nutrition, and extension literature from over 100 participating countries. As well as the journal literature AGRIS covers unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications.
Agritrop is a database of publications (some full text) on tropical agronomy from CIRAD a French research centre. Other open access resources are available at the above link as well.
Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals. Web of Science also provides cited reference searching.
Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals. Scopus also provides cited reference searching via a View Citation Overview option.
SciFinder indexes the Chemical Abstracts Service databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and others. SciFinder enables structure and other chemical searches as well as topic and author searching.
A comprehensive database for life science and biomedical research. It consists of Biological Abstracts, an index to the journal literature in experimental, pure and field life sciences and non-clinical literature in the biomedical sciences. BA is supplemented by BA-RRM which lists reports, reviews, meetings, and conference proceedings.
Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT)
Of the 403,000+ records indexed from 2,000+ journals in APAIS, approximately half are derived from 223+ comprehensively indexed journals. The scanned images of journal articles in Australian Public Affairs - Full Text are sourced mostly from these comprehensively indexed journals
Maps
Australian Soil Resource Information System - ASRIS
Agro-Maps - Global Spatial Database of Agricultural Land-Use Statistics (FAO Land and Water)
This database contains statistics on food crop production, harvested area and yields for more than 130 countries in Africa, Asia, Near East in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America and Oceania.
Specialised Resources
Australian Weed Identification & Information
Australian government Weeds in Australia site
Infopest is a comprehensive database of registered Australian chemicals. Previously produced by the Qld Dept of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI), Infopest is now owned and managed by Growcom. Provides accurate, up-to-date information for the effective control of weeds, pests and diseases in a wide range of crops and livestock.
Best practices in how to conserve and manage crop diversity genebanks - genetics, plant and seed physiology, in vitro culture, cryopreservation and information technology. Covers: Barley, Cassava, Chickpea, Forage grasses, Forage legumes, Maize, Radish, Rice, Wheat, and Other crops (Regeneration guidelines)
Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions
The AAPARI site includes: under ARD Info Gateway a database of agricultural research projects in the Asia-Pacific region by sub-region, country, sector, implementing agency and donor, and experts and contacts databases; under Directories banana, sweet potato, coconut and grouper sources. It also includes open access publications, news and links.
Asia-Pacific Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology (APCoAB)
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
African Agricultural Research Information enabling searches for projects, organizations, persons, documents/outputs; a Farmers Corner enabling searches across FAO-TECA, RUN Journals, FAO Best Practices, UNDP Experiences, InterSard Good Practices, LEISA Magazine, AGROMISA Afrospecials and Agrobriefs and other project information and networking tools.
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
CTA is a joint international institution of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and the European Union (EU). The site includes: searchable catalogues of more than 13,000 information resource materials on agricultural and rural development from CTA, many in full text; 600 CTA publications, many available to download; a Knowledge for Development policy dialogue site, and video and radio packs.
Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services - GFRAS
Under Knowledge are publications, guidelines and tools for downloading.
Kent Ethnobotany: tracking literature on the Web
Published sources of information on wild plant species
The above two resources advise on how and where to check taxonomy/species name, digitized botanical literature and floras.
A global portal to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Sourced from EURISCO, a European network of ex situ National Inventories of plant collections; SINGER, System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources, the germplasm information exchange network of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR); the U.S. National Genetic Resources Program (NGRP); and other genebanks.
Gramene is a platform for comparative genomic analysis of agriculturally important grasses, including maize, rice, sorghum, wheat and barley. Relationships between cereals are queried and displayed using controlled vocabularies (Gene, Plant, Trait, Environment, and Gramene Taxonomy) and web-based displays, including the Genes and Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) modules.
International Soil Reference and Information Centre provides soil datasets and maps on the local, national and global scale. A wider range of datasets can be queried using ISRIC's metadata service. In 2013 ISRIC opens a crowd souring framework for soil data storage. ISRIC invites individuals and organizations collecting soil data to contribute their data to this world soil database.
Standards
SAI Global on-line premium (formerly Australian standards online)
International Plant Protection Convention - IPPC
The IPPC develops International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs) for safeguarding plant resources including: procedures and references; pest surveillance, survey and monitoring; import regulations and pest risk analysis; compliance procedures and phytosanitary inspection methodologies; pest management; post entry quarantine; exotic pest emergency response, control and eradication; and export certification. IPPC also provides information exchange related to import and export requirements, pest status and regulated pest lists provided by each member country and Regional Plant Protection Organizations.
Statistics
A range of statistical and other data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences. Includes historical reports for 20 commodities or groups of commodities (Agricultural Commodities Statistics).
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)
ASTI's mission is to provide up-to-date quantitative and qualitative data and subsequent analyses on investment, capacity, and institutional trends in agricultural research and development (R&D) in low- and middle-income countries
Current World Market and Trade Publications: US Department of Agriculture
International trade and tariff data (World Trade Organization)
UNdata - United Nations Statistics Division
United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database
Provides access to information and data on International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS) and the work of the International Merchandise Trade Statistics Section (IMTSS) of the United Nations Statistics Division.
Web Sites
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
ABARES is a research bureau within the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
RIRDC has advisory committees on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, Bioenergy, Bioproducts and Energy, Buffalo, Chicken Meat, Collaborative Partnership for Farming and Fishing Health and Safety, Deer Industry, Essential Oils and Plant Extracts, Fodder Crops, Honeybee, Horses, Kangaroo, New Animal Products, New Plant Products, Pasture Seeds, Pollination, Rice, Rare Natural Animal Fibres, Tree Oil, Wildflowers. Numerous publications are available under Research Programs and Publications tabs.
Australian Natural Resources Atlas
Pre-2003 data.
Pre-2009 data.
Current data.
Land Use and Management Information for Australia
Grains Research and Development Corporation
Biological Farmers of Australia
This site includes information on organic certification and the Australian Organic Market Report series.
Information Network for Post-harvest Options
Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development
CIARD aims to make agricultural research information publicly available and accessible to all by helping organizations that hold information to disseminate it more efficiently and make it easier to access. Includes the RING database (Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways) of Agricultural Research for Development sites.
Global Forum for Agricultural Research
The GFAR Information Gateway (see left of page) offers a number of news, publications and directory databases.
Biodiversity International (International Plant Genetic Resources Institute)
Bioversity International investigates the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity in order to achieve better nutrition, improve smallholders' livelihoods and enhance agricultural sustainability. BI has over 700 partners worldwide.
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