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[ Agriculture - General | Agriculture: Food Security, Conflict and Hazards |
| Biodiversity: Conservation, CBNRM, Gap Analysis, Indigenous Knowledge |
| Biogeography - Landscape Ecology - Ecosystem Dynamics |
| Ecotourism - Virtual Fieldtrips | Fauna: Wildlife / Endangered Species |
| Flora: Vegetation - Plants | Grasslands: Prairies and Steppes |
| Land Use / Land Cover Change | | Soils - Pedology |
| Sustainable Rural Development and ( PRA) Participatory Rural Appraisal |

| See also: Mid-continent - Corn Belt - Prairies - Great Plains -North America |

Agriculture - General

·  ACDI-VOCA - home
·  AgEcon Search - University of Minnesota
·  AgNIC - Agricultural Information sources and databases
·  Agriculture and the Environment - Canada
·  Agribusiness & Markets Thematic Group - World Bank
·  Agricultural colleges - worldwide
·  Agriculture Online - home
·  Agriculture - Performance Indicators (agriculture) - World Bank
·  Agricultural Links worldwide - UIUC
·  Agroecosystems - WRI's Pilot analysis of global ecosystems
·  Agronomy - Wageningen / Holland
·  Alternative Farming Systems Information Center - USDA
·  Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Corporation - USDA
·  Alternative agriculture sites: John Jeavons (Ecology Action), Alan York (Biodynamic Agriculture), Wes Jackson (The Land Institute) and other resources
·  American Farm Bureau - home
·  America's Private Land: A Geography of Hope - NRCS
·  ARS - Agricultural Research Service - USDA
·  Becoming Native to this Place - review of book by Wes Jackson /Land Institute (see also article-High Country News about West Jackson)
·  Best Investments Daily Coffee Newsletter - Binews
·  Biological, Agricultural & Medical INFOMINE (UC Riverside BioAgMed Library)
·  Biological Control - A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America
·  Botany/Biosciences - world-wide web virtual library
·  CARD - Center for Agriculture and Rural Development - Iowa State University
·  Center for Rural Affairs - home
·  Center for the Support of Native Lands - see special resources on "Indigenous Peoples and Natural Ecosystems in Central America"
·  Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development - CIKARD
·  CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
·  Challenge Program on Water and Food (CP Water and Food)
·  CIAS - Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems - Univ Wisconsin-Madison
·  CIAT - Columbia
·  CIIFAD - Cornell International Institute for Food, Agricultural and Development - home
·  Conservation Districts on the Web - Soil Conservation
·  Cooperative State Research and Extension Service - USDA
·  ELDIS  - Agriculture and PRA - Participation
·  Exploring Sustainability in Agriculture - article SARE - Sustainable Agriculture Network
·  FAO - Virtual Library - Agriculture...
·  FAO - WAICENT Information Finder
·  FAS/USDA - Foreign Agricultural Service
·  For God, Country and Coca-Cola : The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It
·  Future Harvest - NGO
·  Genome - The Secret of How Life works - Pfizer
·  Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS)
·  Grace Factory Farm project - home
·  IALC - International Arid Lands Consortium - home
·  ICASA - International Consortium for Agricultural Systems Applications
·  ICIMOD - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development - home
·  IIEA - International Institute of Ecological Agriculture -home
·  IATP - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy - home
·  InterGarden - Agriculture and Biosciences - list of links
·  Land and Water Development issues - FAO/AGL
·  Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture - Iowa State University
·  Mountain Forum - mountain regions/ecosystems
·  National Agricultural Library (USDA - US Dept of Agriculture)
·  National 4-H councils
·  National FFA - Future Farmer's of America
·  National Grange - home
·  National Rural Development Partnership - home
·  NASULGC - National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
·  New Agriculturist On-Line - Focus on Coffee
·  NRCS -Natural Resources Conservation Service
·  Precision Agriculture - 7th International Conference
·  RAISE - Rural and Agricultural Incomes with a Sustainable Environment - USAID
·  Rodale Institute - sustainable / organic farming organization
·  SARE - Sustainable Agriculture Network - home
·  SCAA - Specialty Coffee Association of America - home
·  SOFI - State of Food Insecurity in the World - FAO
·  SPAAR - Special Program for African Agriculture
·  Sustainability and Resource Management - Agriculture - ESRC/UK
·  Sustainability Links - EnviroLink - many resources
·  Sustainable Agriculture - Resources & Lists & Links - from CIAS Wisconsin
·  Sustainable Agriculture Network - Rainforest Alliance
·  Sustainable Development of Rice as a Primary Food - Sustainability Forum - University of California Davis and San Francisco State University
·  Sustainable Earth Electronic Library
·  Sustainable Agriculture - Resources & Lists & Links - from CIAS Wisconsin
·  The Unsettling of America-Culture and Agriculture - book review of book by Wendell Berry - ECOBOOKS
·  Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
·  USDA - U.S. Dept of Agriculture
·  W.K. Kellogg Biological Station-Michigan - U.S. LTER Network- AgroEcosystems modeling & landscape ecology
·  Wageningen Agricultural University - The Netherlands
·  WORLD AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION - FAO
·  World Sustainable Agriculture Association - homepage
·  WRI - World Resources Institute - home
·  WWWVL - Agriculture including soil - Earth Science - VLIB
· WWWVL - Sustainable development library - home


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Agriculture: Food Insecurity, Resource Conflict and Hazards

·  Africa Nutrition Database Initiative - home
·  African Dust may Influence Hurricane Formation - Dr. Norman MacLeod - from the Third World Foundation
·  AFRICAN SAHEL 25 YEARS AFTER THE GREAT DROUGHT  - Simon Batterbury
·  Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change: Issues of Longrun Sustainability - Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. AER-740
·  Agroecosystems - WRI's Pilot analysis of global ecosystems
·  Alternatives to Conventional Modern Agriculture for Meeting World Food Needs in the Next Century:
   Report of a Conference on Sustainable Agriculture, Bellagio, Italy, April 26030, 1999 (PDF document)
·  AVISO - AN INFORMATION BULLETIN ON GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND HUMAN SECURITY
·  Biological Control in North America - Cornell University
·  CIAS - Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems - University of Wisconsin
·  Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
·  Climate Change and Agriculture in Europe - Oxford University - ECI from the - Environmental Change Institute
·  Colorado Plateau Ecosystems - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
·  Commission on Vulnerable Food Systems - ECU/Oxford University
· Conservation Districts on the Web - Soil Conservation
·  Don't Panic Eat Organic - homepage
·  Drylands Program - IIED - International Institute of Environment and Development - London
·  EarthScan - home
·  ELDIS  - Electronic Development Library - IDS (Institute for Development Studies) - UK
·  ENES - International Network for Environment and Security - home
·  Environmental News Index - GAIA Books
·  Ending Hunger: CONSEQUENCES Vol.2 No. 2 - Current Status and Future Prospects - article
·  Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) - from NCAR
·  Environmental Change and Security Project - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
·  Environmental Change Institute - Oxford University
·  FAOSTAT - food, agriculture, nutrition and land data
·  FAO - GIEWS - Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) - FAO - Global Watch Archive
·  FAO - Special Programme for Food Security - home
·  FAO FOCUS: Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security
·  FAO SYMPOSIUM - Agriculture, Trade and Security : Sept 1999
·  FAO - SOFI - State of Food Insecurity
·  FAO - SOFA - State of Food and Agriculture
·  FAO - World Food Day resources
·  FEWS - Famine Early Warning System - USAID
·  FIVIMS - Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems - Map Resources
·  FOOD FOR THE FUTURE? GMO's, biotechnology and agricultural biodiversity  - world development perspective
·  Food Security and Climate Change - from the - Environmental Change Institute - Oxford University
·  Food security and the coming millenium - Intro to World Food Summit  by the FAO
·  Food security and the state: responsibility and partnership - FAO
·  Food Security Bureau - Canada
·  Food Security Guide - ELDIS  - UK
·  Geographic Information Systems in Sustainable Development - FAO/SD
·  Geography of Vulnerable Food Systems Introduction ... PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML ... interdisciplinary work has also been stimulated by the Commission of the International Geographical Union on ‘ Vulnerable Food Systems ' (1988- 1996)
·  GINIE Project - Global Information Networks in Education - UNESCO/USAID/University of Pittsburg et al.
·  Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS) - FAO
·  Global Network on Food Security - Canadian Pacific Charitable Foundation/UN Association of Canada
·  Global Security and Sustainability - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
·  HIN - Humanitarian Information Network
·  Hunger Project - THP
·  Hungerweb - Tufts University HungerWeb list - International NGOs in the field of hunger and food
·  IALC - International Arid Lands Consortium - home
·  IIED - International Institute of Environment and Development - London
·  Impact of Global Change on Agriculture - Iowa State University Global Change course materials
·  IISDnet - International Institute for Sustainable Development
·  ITDG - Intermediate Technology Development Group
·  Land, Water and Nutrition - Development issues - FAO/AGL
·  Living Wages North and South Initiative - TLWNSI - NPA - National Policy Association
·  LUCC Project - international land use/land cover change research project
·  Mountain Forum - mountain regions/ecosystems
·  Natural Hazards Center - Information on Human Adaptation to Disasters (Univ of Colorado - Boulder)
·  NCPA - National Center for Policy Analysis
·  NPA - National Policy Association
·  OALS - Office of Arid Lands Studies - University of Arizona
·  Political Ecology, Mountain Agriculture, and Knowledge in Honduras
·  Poverty and access to environmental resources - ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme
·  Poverty & Sustainable Livelihoods - ELDIS
·  ReliefWeb - Disaster Assistance -UN Dept of Humanitarian Affairs
·  SPAAR - Special Program for African Agriculture
·  Sustainability and Resource Management - Agriculture - ESRC/UK
·  Sustainable Agriculture - Resources & Lists & Links - CIAS - Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems - University of Wisconsin
·  Sustainable Development and Small Farms - USDA - homepage
·  Sustainable Food Security - FAO
·  Sustaining the Soil - Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa - from EarthScan
·  Toward sustainable food security - fourteen papers from SD/FAO
·  USAID - Biodiversity Programs homepage
·  USAID - EGAT - Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade Bureau  - home
·  USAID - ENV - Environment - home
·  USAID - Food for Peace
·  USAID - Global Health - home
·  US Action Plan on Food Security - USDA
·  VAM - Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (PDF)- FAO/World Food Programme)
·  Virtual Library on International Development - Canada
·  Vulnerability Risk Analysis publications - FEWS
·  World Food Programme - United Nations
·  World Sustainable Agriculture Association - homepage
·  WRI - World Resources Institute - home

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Biodiversity: Conservation, CBNRM, Gap Analysis, Indigenous Knowledge

·  Australia - Biodiversity/Species Occurrence, Maps and Models - ERIN -Australia's Environment Portal
·  Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program - National Wildlife Federation
·  Base de Dados Tropical - Tropical Data Base - Brazil
·  BCIS - Biodiversity.ORG - A consortium of ten international conservation organisations and programs of IUCN—The World Conservation Union, BCIS Members collectively represent the single greatest global source of biodiversity conservation information in the world. BCIS is a framework within which the Members' networks work together toward a common goal: to support environmentally sound decision-making and action by facilitating access to biodiversity data and information
·  Biodiversity and Livelihoods Group - IIED - International Institute of Environment and Development - London
·  Biodiversity - World Resources Institute
·  Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
·  Biodiversity in Agroecosystems - CEVL - Computational Ecology and Visualization Lab - MSU - home
·  Biodiversity and Human Health - homepage - Glossary of Ecology Terms
·  Biodiversity, Ecology, and the Environment (Biosciences) - World-Wide Web Virtual Library
·  Biodiversity hotspots - Conservation International - home
·  Biodiversity-Rich Ecoregions in Africa Need Protection - article/UNEP/GRID/USGS
·  Biological Control in North America - Cornell University
·  Biology Browser - resources
·  Botany/Biosciences - world-wide web virtual library
·  Canada - Environment
·  CBNRM Net - Community-based Natural Resource Management Network
·  CBNS - Center for the Biology of Natural Systems
·  Center for Biodiversity and Conservation - American Museum of Natural History
·  Center for Conservation Biology: RICE UNIVERSITY
·  Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development - CIKARD
·  Center for Plant Conservation - Missouri Botanical Gardens
·  Center for the Support of Native Lands - see special resources on "Indigenous Peoples and Natural Ecosystems in Central America"
·  CEVL - Computational Ecology and Visualization Lab - MSU - home
·  Champions of Conservation - over last 100 years - Audubon
·  Colorado Plateau Ecosystems - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
·  Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)
·  Conservation and Science - Smithsonian Institution
·  Conservation Ecology - from the Resilience Alliance
·  Conservation International - Biodiversity Hotspots - homepage
·  Conservation Management Institute - Virginia Tech
·  CONSEQUENCES Vol.2 No. 2 Impacts of Introduced Species in the United States
·  CTSP - The Conservation Technology Support Program - tax-exempt conservation organizations to build Geographic Information Systems (GIS) capacity.
·  DIVERSITAS - International Programme of Biodiversity Science
·  Ecologists and Environmentalists - ErraticImpact.com
·  Environmentalists - ThinkQuest People Bibliography
·  Ecoregions Program - US Forest Service - IMI (Inventory and Monitoring Institute)
·  EMAN - Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network - Environment Canada
·  Endangered and extinct species lists by region (IUCN) - see also Open Directory Project - lists by region
·  Environmental Sites on the Internet - from Sweden and the Environment
·  FAO FOCUS: Plant Genetic Resources
·  Flow of Life in the Atmosphere - CEVL - MSU
·  FOS - Founmdations of Success - Improving the Practice of Conservation, e.g. Adaptive management
·  French Creek Project - aquatic biodiversity
·  Frogwatch - all about frogs, educational links, etc
·  Gap Analysis - Geographic Approach to Planning for Biodiversity - home
·  Genome - The Secret of How Life works - Pfizer
·  GEO-2000/UNEP - Global Environmental Outlook - home
·  GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY DATA AND INFORMATION - UNEP-NC [PDF]
·  Global Zoo directory by the  CBSG (Conservation Breeding Specialist Group)
·  Greenpeace International - Homepage
·  IABIN - Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network
·  ICIMOD - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development - home
·  IGBP - International Geosphere/Biosphere Program - International Human Dimensions Programme
·  INBIO - National Institute of Biodiversity - Costa Rica
·  International Workshop on Promoting Cooperation for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Rural Development in Mountain Ecosystems: The Case of Andes and the Himalayas - Mountain Forum Library
·  Invasive Species research - NBII
·  IUCN - International Union for the Conservation of Nature - Gland, Switzerland
·  Land Use Land Cover Change (LULC) - AAG Modules on HDGC
·  Living in the Biosphere - AAG module on biogeography and biodiversity
·  Long Range Movement of Organisms, The Gypsy Moth in Michigan - CEVL - Computational Ecology and Visualization Lab - MSU - home
·  Mesoamerican Society for Conservation and Biology - home - see also SMBC
·  Missouri Botanical Garden home page and  Education resources
·  Mountain Forum - mountain regions/ecosystems
·  Multilateral Treaties and Conventions - Tufts University
·  National Geographic OnlineMapping of Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World - Wild World
·  Native Use of Fire on the Colorado Plateau - LUHNA Project
·  NatureServe - formerly National Heritage Network- home
·  National Parks and Conservation Association
·  NBII - national Biological Information Infrastructure - USGS - NBII - Publications
· Northern Prairie - wildlife, plant biodiversity and other resources - USGS
·  NRCS -Natural Resources Conservation Service
·  Political Ecology, Mountain Agriculture, and Knowledge in Honduras
·  Rainforest Alliance - home
·  Refugia for Biological Diversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Australia: Table of Contents
·  Save Our Canyons - Wasatch Mts.-Utah
·  Society for Conservation Biology
·  SCGIS - Society for Conservation GIS
·  SIDS - Small Island Developing States Network - Biodiversity cases
·  Society for Human Ecology
·  Southwestern Association of Naturalists- home
·  SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway
·  SOSE ; Studies of Society and Environment
·  Tree of Life - phylogeny and biodiversity site
·  UN Convention on Biodiversity - home
·  UNESCO - MAB - Man and the Biosphere program - home
·  USAID - Biodiversity Programs and homepages
·  USAID - EGAT - Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade Bureau  - home
·  USAID - ENV - Environment - home
·  USAID - Global Health - home
·  US Dept of the Interior - home
·  Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity division of The Virtual Library Project specializes in reviewing internet information sources pertaining to ecology and biodiversity based on their educational value. If there are any further inquiries about the Virtual Library please contact us.
·  W3 TROPICOS - Missouri Botanical Links to tropical databases - VAST (VAScular Tropicos)
 nomenclatural database and associated authority files.
·  WATERSHED BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION - New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit
·  Watershed Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation: The French Creek Project
·  WOCAT-FAO - World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
·  World Conservation Monitoring program - WCMC/UNEP
·  WRI - World Resources Institute - home
·  Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity
·  Yahoo: ecology sites

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Biogeography - Landscape Ecology - Ecosystems Dynamics - Conservation Science

See also: Prairies - Great Plains - North America ; Aquatic Ecology ; biogeochemical cycles ; Biomes, Soils and Ecosystems and Land Use / Cover Change (LUCC) AAG module. Se also:Agriculture - Human Dimensions of Global Change - Biogeography - BIOL 549 Resources-by-theme: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability Science

·  Africa - Environment/Ecology - links to several sites / topics
·  Agroecosystems - WRI's Pilot analysis of global ecosystems
·  Aquatic Ecology resource list
·  ASSOD - Assessment of the status of human-induced soil degradation in South and Southeast Asia (ASSOD)
·  Baileys' Eco-Regions (July 1995) - Description of the Ecoregions of the United States
·  BELIZE Programme - Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA) located in the Orange Walk District of Belize
·  Biogeography GLOSSARY
·  Biogeography course materials - Radford University--modules from GEOG 235 - Biogeography

·  Biomes
·  Life Zones
·  Zoogeographic Provinces

· Biogeograph Laboratory - UCSB (University of California, Santa Barbara)
·  Biogeography of the Global Garden /GEOG 1403 - University of Minnesota / Dwight Brown - see also BioLinks to Models and other resources
·  Biogeography of Madagascar (Missouri Botanical Garden)
·  Biogeographical Virtual Field Trips:

-Indian Peaks Colorado
-Pt. Reyes, California
-Rainforest Virtual Tour
- Tropical Rainforest Information Center - Rainforest Report Card - MSU

-Madagascar - vegetation and biogeography
-Tropical forests - Suriname - see also Japanese site
-Human-Environment Interaction in the Virunga Mts. Rwanda - Wiley Cases

·  BIOL 65 Biodiversity & Conservation (Peter Bryant) UC Irvine
· Bureau of Land Management - home and its Environmental Education resources
· Botany/Biosciences - world-wide web virtual library
·  California GAP Analysis Project Home Page
·  California's Natural Resources - CERES
·  CAMESA - Consortium for Advancing the Monitoring of Ecosystem Sustainability in the Americas
·  CEC (North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation)
·  Center for Conservation Biology: RICE UNIVERSITY
·  Center for Ecological Health Research (Information Center for the Environment - ICE)
·  Center for Global Change and Earth Observations - Michigan State University
·  Center for Plant Conservation - Missouri Botanical Gardens
·  Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) of the University of Wisconsin
·  CERES: California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
·  CEVL - Computational Ecology and Visualization Lab - Michigan State University(Stuart Gage)
·  Colorado Plateau Ecosystems - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
·  Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CPCESU)
·  Critical Ecoregions Program - Sierra Club US
·  Earth Observing System Data Gateway - USGS
·  Earthscape - Columbia University  - online/global change resources
·  EarthWatch International
·  Eco-Portal - home
·  Ecology Center - Bay Area
·  Ecological Design Institute - home
·  Ecological Regions of North America - CEC - North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
·  Ecological Society of America - homepage
·  Ecoregions Program - US Forest Service - IMI (Inventory and Monitoring Institute)
·  Ecoregions - The Ecosystem Geography of the Oceans and Continents - Bailey 1997 - Baileys' Eco-Regions July 1995 (see below) -
·  Ecoregions of the US - North america- hierarchical classification by the US Forest Service

·  Ecosystem Domains - Continental US

·  Ecosystem Divisions - USForest Service and Canada

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