ARE and Beyond - Resources on the Web
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General Sites
- AAEA
American Agricultural Economics Association
- Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC)
“...a distributed network that provides access to agriculture related information, subject area experts, and other resources.”
- California Food and Agricultural Code
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools
Gary Price has created a compilation of web resources that can assist in finding “fast facts” -- the type that you would find in an almanac. The subject list includes agriculture, tax, families, weather -- and many more.
- GPO Access
Official federal government information at your fingertips
- Resources for Economists on the Internet
This guide is sponsored by the American Economic Association. It lists 1,265 resources in 74 sections and sub-sections available on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all resources are also described.
- Social Science Information Gateway
- State of the Land
This site, published by the USDA National Resources Conservation Service, provides data and analysis on land use, soil erosion, water quality, wetlands, and other issues regarding the conservation and use of natural resources.
- THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
- Hal Varian
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Economics and Statistics
- Agriculture Fact Book
“...offering thousands of useful facts about U.S. agriculture and rural America.” (from forward by Dan Glickman); Adobe PDF format - various years available from this link.
- Agricultural Statistics, USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service
provides links to the electronic version of this publication starting in 1994
- California Agricultural Statistics 1993 - 2002
- California Department of Food and Agriculture
Contains general information about the department and several entries on California agriculture including production, exports, legislation, and a large list of other agricultural links.
- California Statistical Abstract
Same information as printed version; tables may be viewed online or downloaded as Excel spreadsheets.
- Economic Report of the President
all years are available from this link, beginning with 1995.
- FAOSTAT Database Collections
- FATUS, Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States
ability to produce custom reports by country, commodity, or year (back to 1989)
- League of Nations - Statistical and Disarmament Documents
Statistical yearbooks and other documents from the League of Nations have been scanned and are available (.pdf format). Minimally searchable; this is maybe the only place to locate demographic and economic data from a number of countries during the 1920s, 30s and early 40s. From Northwestern University public documents librarians.
- Per Capita Food Consumption Data System
Database contains data on nearly 300 commodities, as well as information concerning population, the nutrient content of the food supply, and prices and expenditures related to food consumption. Data are available for 30+ years in Excel (the entire file is viewable, and most files contain multiple spreadsheets). The poultry file, for example, contains four spreadsheets: broilers, other chicken, total chicken, and turkey.
- UC Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center
Information for a variety of crops: Farm advisors, research activities, UC publications, and fact sheets
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
WWW version of many Census Bureau reports including 2002 Census of Agriculture and 1997 Census of Agriculture and Statististical Abstract
- USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
AMS provides current, unbiased price and sales information to assist in the orderly marketing and distribution of farm commodities. Reports include information on prices, volume, quality, condition, and other market data on farm products in specific markets and marketing areas. Reports cover both domestic and international markets.
- USDA Economics and Statistics System at Mann Library, Cornell University
USDA statistical data sets
- USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
agricultural and crop information including graphs and charts not found in the reports at the Economics and Statistics System (see above)
- World Trade Report
The main WTO research publication on global trade policy, with special topics, analysis, and new developments is being published every July. World Trade report for 2003 starts with a report on trends in world trade over the previous year and some observations about prospects for the current year. It takes up three issues of topical interest in international trade: developments in South-South trade, trends in non-oil commodity markets, and the growth of regional trade agreements. The second section of the WTR 2003 addresses the topic of trade and development.
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Research and Working Papers
- AgEcon Search
Research in Agricultural Economics--searchable database of scholarly research in agricultural economics sponsored by the University of Minnesota and AAEA
- AFPC Publications
Texas A&M University, Agricultural and Food Policy Center Publications Lists--Farm Bill Policy Education Package papers, Policy Working Papers, Policy Issues Papers, Policy Research Reports, Policy Briefing Papers, Staff Reports, Other publications; papers in text format
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers
The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei is a non-profit, non-partisian research institution established to carry out research in the field of sustainable development. One of its principal aims is to promote interaction between academic, industrial and public policy spheres in order to comprehensively address concerns about economic development and environmental degradation. WPs are usually available in pdf format for free download.
- Economics Working paper archive
This site is maintained by the Economics Department of Washington University. It has links to other WWW sites.
- eScholarship Repository
The eScholarship repository is sponsored by the California Digital Library. It provides persistent access to research and scholarly output selected and deposited by the individual University of California units. Its infrastructure makes the content of posted works easily discoverable. The repository is a project of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library within the University of California Office of the President. eScholarship’s mission is to facilitate and support scholar-led innovations in scholarly communication.
- International Monetary Fund
including working papers, policy discussion papers, staff papers and the IMF Research Bulletin
- Online Journal Links Access is available only through UCD campus IP addresses.
- Posted Journals through JSTOR
Access is available only through UCD campus IP addresses. For further information, see the University Library’s Electronic Journals website.
- SSRN/Economics Research Network
Social Science Research Network is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. ERN is a division of SSRN, which also sponsors the Accounting Research Network, the Financial Economics Network, the Legal Scholarship Network and the Management Research Network. The Economics Research Network is dedicated to increasing communication among economics scholars, practitioners, and policymakers throughout the world. You can search and download (only available to ARE department) working papers by scholars from around the world.
- University of Wisconsin, Department of Agricultural Economics
extensive collection of the department’s publications available in Adobe PDF format.
- Water Information Center
The U.S. National Academies is pleased to announce the launch of its Water Information Center, a portal of more than 100 peer-reviewed reports from the National Academies on water-related issues. The website aims to assist the work of water scientists, engineers, managers, policy-makers, and students throughout the world. These reports represent independent and objective consensus among experts from academia, industry, and other entities. The website features the following major topics: Water Supply and Sanitation, Water and Soil Remediation, Hydrologic Hazards, Water Quality in the Natural Environment, River Basin Systems Management, Environmental Assessment, Management, and Restoration, Water Science and Research. All of the reports can be read for free on-lin, and summaries are freely downloadable as PDFs.
- WebEc
is an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW. It lists and describes material that could be of interest to mainly academic economists and is at least in part freely available on the Internet. WebEc provides an extensive list of online journals in economics. Please note that articles are available in full text only if your institution has a subscription to the respective journal. UC Davis for example does not subscribe to all journals listed in WebEc.
- World Bank
Connection to lists of World Bank publications, including some full-text.
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Farm Bills
- Environmental Working Group Farm Subsidy Database
This web site has influenced the Congressional debates on the new Farm Bill. Went public in November, 2001. Represents the period from 1996 to the present.
- Side-by-side comparison of the new Farm Bill with 1996-2001 farm legislation. Summarized but substantive, this comparison offers a time-saving reference to Farm Bill provisions.
- United States Farm Bills - National Center for Agricultural Law
A searchable and informative site for history of Farm Bills back to 1933.
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USDA’s Official Website for the 2002 Farm Bill
A collective effort by all USDA agencies to explain the new farm bill provisions and their implementation. This website includes farm bill program details, questions and answers, program applications and sign-up forms, as well as other important materials from USDA agencies on farm bill implementation.
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Organics
- AMS, the Agricultural Marketing Service, an agency within USDA, provides up-to-date and background information on the National Organic Program. The complete text of program standards, the list of certifying agents, the National List of allowed and prohibited substances and various other related publications are available from the website
- Organic Farming in Europe: Economics and Policy
Organic farming is one of the key issues in reshaping European agricultural policy. With economic and political questions of organic farming becoming increasingly important, an independent forum is required to provide in-depth and up-to-date information and to open a scientific debate. This is the purpose of the new series ‘Organic Farming in Europe: Economics and Policy’, published by the University of Hohenheim / Department of Farm Management. The series is born in a spirit of a Europe-wide co-operation between scientists to provide an unprecedented coverage of the development of organic farming in Europe and to present their results to an international audience.
- Wazzup with Organics?
Bill Wolf, Organic Materials Review Institute, and Katherine DeMatteo, Organic Trade Association. Concerns about the harmful effects of chemicals on agricultural products and the environment have fueled consumer interest in organic foods and farming. What is organic farming and what does “certified organic” mean? This power point presentation will address those FAQs and examine the history and growth of the U.S. organics industry and the obstacles and opportunities affecting its future.
- The World of Organic Agriculture 2003 Statistics and Future Prospects
Minou Yussefi and Helga Willer (Eds.) 5th Ed. revised and updated. This study documents recent developments in global organic agriculture. Apart from figures on the area under organic management and on organic farms, this publication also contains general information on the state of organic agriculture in the five continents. Organic farming is practised in approximately 100 countries of the world and the area under organic management is continually growing.
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Directories
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A very comprehensive list of other web sites is based at the University of California, Berkeley, Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Library.
MELVYL® Catalog: The University of California’s union, computerized catalog of books and serials.
