The Agriculture Page

Agricultural Structure and Food Systems (Sociology 861)

Agriculture and Food Information Sources

Listed below are links to a wide range of sites, sights and cites on the web that contain information about agriculture and food. No claims to completeness are made. However, if you wish to recommend an addition or report a nonfunctional link, please feel free to write me.

AgriBASE Subject Index (A list of links maintained at U. Guelph)
Agriculture and Agri-food Canada Home Page
Agriculture Online (Home of Successful Farming)
Biological, Agricultural and Medical Resources (A Search Engine at U. California)
CIRAD (French foreign agronomic cooperation agency)
Clip Art Collection (about agriculture!)
CSREES Home Page (The people who provide federal support to Land Grant Universities)
Dole 5 A Day (The Pineapple People)
IFIC Foundation (International Food Information Council, a nonprofit funded by the food and beverage industry)
National Agricultural Library
Nutrition Analysis Tool A diagnostic tool for diets and nutrition.
RAFI (Rural Advancement Fund International, a nonprofit)
Snax.com...You're Tasting the Crunch! A Pitch for Snack Foods!
The AGRALIN World Wide Web server (An enormous bibliographic database at U. Wageningen)
USDA Economics and Statistics System
World Food Summit
The Food Zone A site for 8-12 grade science, but nevertheless of interest.
The World Wide Web Virtual Library A detailed page of links to various ag sites on the web.
News Server for Food Science Issues
Internet Food Science Resources A list of links to food science pages.
Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition FDA web site for food safety and nutrition.
Food and Nutrition Information Center A National Agricultural Library site.
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy A list of references on the subject.
Sustainable Farming Connection Where farmers and others concerned about producing more sustainable food systems can share information.
Program on Agricultural Technology Studies (PATS) University of Wisconsin site on a variety of agricultural technology issues.
Food Safety Information USDA's Food Safety Page. Contains official wisdom on what is and is not safe about food.

Biotechnology

Bioline Publications (A Brazil-based database. Abstracts free, but a charge for pubs)
Biotechnology Law Web Server
Genentech, Inc. (Site of a major biotechnology company)
Global Agricultural Biotechnology Association (International industry voice)
ISB Agbiotech Online (Information Systems for Biotechnology, a public data source)
ISU Bioethics program (Iowa State University Bioethics Center)
The Biotechnology Information Center (NAL's Information Center)
The Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics (Texas A&M U)
Washington Biotechnology Action Council, Seattle (a nonprofit)

General References that may be of use

Enviromental Inequality Bibliography
The World Bank Home Page

Grades and Standards

FMC Tech Transfer Project (Food Manufacturing Coalition)
Welcome to ASQC (American Society for Quality Control)

Law

Agricultural Law (National Center for Agricultural Law)
Legal Information Institute (Cornell Law School)
Food Laws and Regulations Division Section of IFT concerned with food law. Lots of links.
Code of Federal Regulations Searchable index of US federal regulations.

Reference Tools

Acronyms (UK)
The Acronym Expander
VIRTUAL LIBRARY for SOCIOLOGY
Virtual Reference Desk

Science, Technology and Society

Sociological Sources related to Agriculture and Food
Agricultural Biotechnology Companies