Agriculture

The Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry website.

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This is a governmental site concerning problems of agriculture of the U.S.A.

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The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.

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In 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln founded the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he called it the people's Department. In Lincoln's day, 48 percent of the people were farmers who needed good seeds and information to grow their crops. Today, USDA cont.

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At a time of increasing urbanisation, growing urban poverty and food insecurity, and a subsequent deterioration of the quality of the urban environment, it has become urgent to adequately inform national and local policy makers and other local stakeholders on the potentials and pitfalls of urban agriculture. A major constraint in the development of urban agriculture, is that there are no information services available, in the vast majority of the developing countries, to inform adequately city authorities, urban planners, farmers, consumers, NGOs, technical support organisations and other stakeholders.

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NIAB is an independent plant sciences company providing technical, research and consultancy services based in Cambridge UK. With its extensive knowledge of variety and seed across a wide range of crops, NIAB makes a major contribution to the development and use of plant genetic resources in the agricultural and food industries.

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BANR addresses science and policy issues confronting the agricultural, food, and environmental system. BANR is the program unit of the National Research Council responsible for providing expert advice on issues of food and fiber production and related matters of natural resource development, including forestry, fisheries, wildlife, and land and water use. Such issues arise from a variety of problems and causes: conflicts between the growing demand for food and resources of all kinds and the impacts of their development and production on the quality of air, land, water, and natural ecosytems; and the need to sustain, restore and improve the productivity of agriculture for the economic well-being of the nation. The Board maintains a critical overview of the several fields under its purview so that it is aware of relevant work relating to policy formulation, technologic assessment, research and development, manpower, funds, emerging issues and problems.

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Our Mandate: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provides information, research and technology, and policies and programs to achieve security of the food system, health of the environment and innovation for growth.

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Agriculture 21, web site of the Agriculture Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations, FAO.

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