International Orgs. - English 101 – FRESHMAN ENGLISH – Gamberg – Spring 2016

Organizations

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The major international organization for food and agriculture. This web site includes datasets, catalogs, and information on food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries worldwide.

Below are links to some of the major international organizations concerned with agriculture. You might also want to search the Internet for others if you are looking for organizations devoted to specific crops: International Cocoa Organization, International Coffee Organization, International Olive Oil Council, International Pepper Community, International Sugar Organization, etc.

European Commission: Agriculture and Rural Development
Directorate of the European Union responsible for implementation of agriculture and rural development policy. Has current article on farm subsidies in the EU
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
IFAD is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was organized to financing agricultural development projects in the world's developing countries. This is a good source of documents on farm subsidies worldwide.
World Food Programme
This organization is the world's largest humanitarian agency and is the food aid branch of the United Nations. "The ultimate objective of food aid should be the elimination of the need for food aid." Also, a good source for documents on subsidies world wide.
World Trade Organization: Agriculture Section
Inculdes links to agricultural agreement documents and dispute settlements.

Databases and Digital Libraries

AGRIPPA - FAO
AGRIPPA is an electronic peer-reviewed journal sponsored by FAO and produced by independent authors/scholars from the agricultural and development world. Good source of articles on agriculture worldwide.
FAO Corporate Document Depository
This database contains FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications in electronic format. It includes links to major FAO publications like the State of Food and Agriculture and more.
Legal Office FAOLEX
"FAOLEX is a comprehensive and up-to-date computerized legislative database, one of the world's largest electronic collection of national laws and regulations on food, agriculture and renewable natural resources. Users of FAOLEX have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each text, as well as to the full text of most legislation contained in the database."
International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology (AGRIS)
"AGRIS is a global public domain Database with 2872963 structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology. 78.94% of records are citations from scientific journals. The bibliographic references contain either links to the full text of the publication or additional information retrieved from related Internet resources."

Statistics

AMAD (Agricultural Market Access Database)
"AMAD contains detailed data on WTO tariffs and TRQ schedules, import data, applied tariffs, production and consumption. AMAD contains data for over 50 countries, including all major agricultural trading members."
USDA Foreign Agriculture Service: Production, Supply and Distribution Online
This database contains current and historical official USDA data on production, supply and distribution of agricultural commodities for the United States and key producing and consuming countries.
OECD iLibrary
"OECD iLibrary is OECD’s Online Library for Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. It has replaced SourceOECD in July 2010. OECD iLibrary hosts all content so users can find - and cite - tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters." Some full-text content in this database is freely available while other is subscription-based.