Directory of Caribbean Agricultural Information Sources 2009

The Directory was compiled and edited by Shamin Renwick (Librarian, Agriculture and Life Sciences Division, Main Library, UWI and Past President of the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL), Claudette de Freitas (Information Networks Manager, Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) and Liz  M. Pagán (Director of Agricultural Experiment Station Library, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) Puerto Rico)

The idea of publishing this arose among its editors and then Director of the US National Agriculture Library, Dr. Peter Young, at a meeting of the Agricultural Libraries Section in the Annual ACURIL Conference held in Puerto Rico in June 2007.

There was no available comprehensive listing bringing together Caribbean agricultural information sources and it was felt that this type of publication would be extremely useful for all stakeholders in agriculture: policy makers, researchers, extension personnel, information professionals, students and agricultural producers, business and consumers. The countries included are the English, French, Spanish and Dutch-speaking countries which comprise the Caribbean subset of ACURIL’s membership which is described as “those countries in the Caribbean basin, mainland countries including the Guianas, and the States of United States of America, which border on the Caribbean Sea or the Gulf of Mexico.” 

Also included are web resources selected based on their relevance to agriculture and their regional nature.

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