Caribbean Librarian for Agriculture

Data Sets for Agriculture At the recent  ICTforAg Conference , the “What Works for Ag Data: Apps, Tools, and Visualizations” session brought together three digital development professionals to discuss data analysis and presentation tools: Matthew Cooper  of Conservation International Tilly Josephson  of Vera Solutions Michael Shoag  of Forum One see http://www.ictworks.org/2016/07/11/9-data-sets-to-improve-your-ictforag-programs/

See Libguide by Shamin Renwick, Librarian, Alma Jordan Library, UWI, St. Augustine Lib Guide - Managing Information Resources in Science and Agriculture

Agriculture is the sector most vulnerable to the seasonal nature of drought

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