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Agriculture and Landuse

Last Updated: 5-Apr-2013

Use this subject guide to find the most relevant information resources for agricultural science disciplines. Need help? Contact Hannah Winkler.

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Subjects

Agriculture, forestry, and wildlife

Databases

CAB Abstracts

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.

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)

Covers environmental sciences topics, including ecology, energy resources, and pollution issues. Coverage Dates: 1967 - present.

AGRICOLA

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

Agro-MAPS: Global Spatial Database of Agricultural Land-Use Statistics

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.

National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)

NASS, the arm of the USDA, publishes statistical information relating to agriculture.

USDA Economic Research Service Data Products

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.

Global Land Cover Facility

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

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

Agricultural Survey Methods

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