Caribbean Librarian for Agriculture

Agrimapps app  is an example of promising technology developed by researchers of the Facutly of Food and Agriculture and Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of the West Indies. See   https://play.google.com/store/ apps/details?id=dcit.uwi. agrimaps&hl=en Agrimapps aims to assist farmers and extension officers by providing crop selection recommendations tailored to the soil properties and climatic properties of individual sites. The app also provides other spatial information e.g. land contours, proximity to rivers etc and can be downloaded for free at the google play store. At present, it is only supported by android but other versions are in the pipeline.  (Shared by Renaldo Belfon)

The CIARD Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING)   is a global registry of web-based services that give access to any kind of information pertaining to agricultural research for development (ARD). It is the principal tool created through the CIARD initiative to allow information providers to register their services in various categories and so facilitate the discovery of sources of agriculture-related information across the world.  The RING aims to provide an infrastructure to improve the accessibility of the outputs of agricultural research and of information relevant to ARD management. The CIARD RING is a project implemented within the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development ( CIARD ) initiative and is led by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research ( GFAR ). URL:  http://ring.ciard.net/home

Information Services at the Caribbean Development Bank has a collection which consists of reference books, monographs, handbooks, directories, journals, newspapers, conference reports and specialised technical writings. The collection covers a broad range of subjects, including: §   Energy and Technology §   Agriculture §   Environment §   Economic policy/planning §   Banks and banking §   Industry §   Reference Materials CDB INFOLINK - ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOGUE (OPAC) External Users please use B9030 as your User ID URL: Information Services: http://www.caribank.org/titanweb/cdb/webcms.nsf/AllDo/C369772B1952479E0425744A0059DF05?OpenDocument OPAC: http://69.63.217.13/C10300Staff/OPAC/index.asp

EarthTrends - Agricultural Information is a page on the  EarthTrends - Environmental Information site , launched in 2001 by the World Resources Institute . Inside these pages you will find time-series information for over 500 variables, more than 2000 country profiles, as well as data tables, maps, and feature stories on a variety of environmental, social, and economic topics. URL: http://earthtrends.wri.org

A new journal for Sustainable Development has been started. The Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal, available online at no charge. This multidisciplinary journal, will address the issue of 'sustainable development' and how it can be achieved. It publishes scholarly articles in the realms of public policy, science, economics and the law as they relate to the concept of sustainable development and its various facets (i.e. human well-being, economic growth, environmental quality, natural resource use and management, innovation, and technological change). The EJSD is a co-publication of International Policy Network ( www.policynetwork.net ) and the University of Buckingham ( www.buckingham.ac.uk ). URaL: http://www.ejsd.org/

CTA's Knowledge for Development website supports the policy dialogue on S&T for agricultural and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. It enables the ACP scientific community - primarily agricultural research and development scientists and technologists, policy makers, farmers and other stakeholders and actors - to share and review results of national and regional efforts and collaborate to harness science and technology for the development of agriculture in their countries.  You can register for a monthly newsletter via email. URL: http://knowledge.cta.int/

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...