Caribbean Librarian for Agriculture

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...

The Trinidad and Tobago Network of Rural Women Producers (TTNRWP) is the Trinidad & Tobago chapter of Caribbean Network of Rural Women Producers (CANROP). TTNRWP has been in existence for the past 11 years. The current membership consists of groups of rural women throughout Trinidad and Tobago. CANROP was launched in July 1999 with support of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), rural women of Barbados, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago . The main goals of the Network are to provide rural women with access to credit for micro-business projects, to contribute to government policies that are sensitive to and supportive of the special needs of rural women producers, to contribute to the elimination of the gender bias in the ownership of land, ensuring that women have the same opportunities as men to own property. The Network also seeks to provide marketing support for rural women producers and to offer training, research, t...

CariPestNet is an email network that assists people of the Caribbean sub-region in obtaining  advice and information on the identification and management of plant pests (Arthropods, micro-organisms, nematodes, molluscs & weeds). In so doing the network links the sub-region with Taxonomists and Plant Protection specialists world wide. CariPestNet URL: http://www.caripestnetwork.org/

Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC ) is a cooperative of partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that will provide users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections. dLOC comprises collections that speak to the similarities and differences in histories, cultures, languages and governmental systems. Types of collections include but are not limited to: newspapers, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, official documents, documentation and numeric data for ecosystems, scientific scholarship, historic and contemporary maps, oral and popular histories, travel accounts, literature and poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts. A basic search for "agriculture"results in several items of interest. This page lists the various collections available by topic. URL: http://web1.dloc.com/ufdc/?a=dloc1&m=lhh

The Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre 's  Caribbean Digital Library has a virtual collection of Caribbean documents and other information resources available on the world wide web arranged for easy retrieval under twenty seven broad subject headings, of which, agriculture is one. The relevant subject headings are: Agriculture Climate Change/Disasters Economic Conditions Economic Policy Environment and Natural Resources Government and Public Administration Information and Communications (including ICT) Millennium Development Goals Regional and International Cooperation Science and Technology Small Island Developing States Social Development Trade Transport URL: http://ckmportal.eclacpos.org/caribbean-digital-library/agriculture

The Statistics Sub-programme compiles statistics on the member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) .  These data are submitted to the Secretariat by the member states themselves, either by the National Statistics Office or the Central Bank, depending on the nature of the data. Occasionally, in the absence of data from the member states, third party sources would be utilised. The data collected are used for multiple purposes-updating of databases, production of statistical reports, providing specified data for analysis. URL: http://caricomstats.org/index.htm

In keeping with a decision taken at the 30th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) held 2-4 July 2009 in Guyana, the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) will now be referred to as the Office of Trade Negotiations (OTN) . The CRNM, as the Office of Trade Negotiations of the CARICOM Secretariat, now has extended responsibility for the coordination, development, and execution of negotiating strategies for all Community external trade negotiations.