Caribbean Librarian for Agriculture

FAOLEX is  a multilingual team summarizes and in many cases translates laws and regulations on topics falling within FAO's mandate - agriculture, cultivated plants, environment, fisheries, food, forestry, land and soil, livestock, water and wild species and ecosystems. Legal information is received by FAO from Member Nations pursuant to Article XI of the FAO Constitution. "FAOLEX contains treaties, laws and regulations on food, agriculture and renewable natural resources from all over the world. Most of the material comes from the official gazettes sent by FAO's Member Nations pursuant to Article XI of the FAO Constitution, for the receipt of which FAO is indeed grateful. Upon receiving such material, the FAO Legal Office selects, indexes and summarizes in English, French or Spanish significant texts pertaining to FAO’s mandate, i.e. legislation on agriculture, livestock, environment gen., fisheries, food, forestry, land & soil, cultivated...

FAO announced   that it  is granting free and open access to its central data repository, FAOSTAT , the world's largest and most comprehensive statistical database on food, agriculture. Prior to this only limited information was  available on FAOSTAT. "FAOSTAT includes data on agricultural and food production, usage of fertilizers and pesticides, food aid shipments, food balance sheets, forestry and fisheries production, irrigation and water use, land use, population trends, trade in agricultural products, the use of agricultural machinery, and more. FAOSTAT can be consulted using English, French or Spanish and allows users to select and organize the statistical information into tables and charts according to their needs and to download it in Excel format. The original statistic data is supplied by individual countries and regional development organizations in standardized formats. Records go back to 1961, the dawn of the Green Revolution." Click this l...

Carib-Agri-L, is a discussion list that focuses on the exchange of information and ideas on agriculture in the Caribbean. The List is open to anyone and is moderated by staff of FAO’s Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean in Barbados.  Discussion on the list is informal and comments made by members, including FAO staff, are not deemed to necessarily represent the views of the organizations or agencies for which they work. The vitality for the List depends on the participation and involvement of its members. Consequently, all members are invited to participate in the List via questions, answers and supplying information. You may join by sending the following message: subscribe Carib-Agri-L to mailserv@mailserv.fao.org to leave the list, send the following message: unsubscribe Carib-Agri-L to mailserv@mailserv.fao.org