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Databases
The most comprehensive database for agricultural science references in journals, conference papers and technical reports. Subject coverage includes agriculture, animal production, genetics, forestry, biotechnology, and entomology. Coverage Dates: 1973 - present.
Covers environmental sciences topics, including ecology, energy resources, and pollution issues. Coverage Dates: 1967 - present.
Published by the National Agricultural Library, covers the world's agricultural literature, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, soil and water resources, and earth and environmental sciences.Coverage Dates: 1970 - present.
Data
This database contains statistics on food crop production, harvested area and yields for more than 130 countries in Africa, Asia, Near East in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America and Oceania.
NASS, the arm of the USDA, publishes statistical information relating to agriculture.
The Economic Research Service provides economic analysis to support the agricultural system. Includes hundreds of data sets complied on consumer price indexes, agricultural baseline data, commodity costs and yields, fertilizer data and quarterly food-at-home prices.
The Global Land Cover Facility focuses on research using remotely sensed satellite data and products to assess land cover change for local to global systems.
FAO land and water digital media series. Titles include: Digital soil map of the world and derived soil properties; Terrastat: Global land resources GIS models and databases for poverty and food insecurity mapping; Global map of irrigation areas
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks
Based on papers presented at the 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2007 International Conferences on Agricultural Statistics. Also available in print http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8630600
