Chapter 16 Farming and Food Supply
UN Food and Agriculture Organisation home page:
A huge site, containing extensive statistical databases and reports on world agriculture, agricultural trade, food supply, nutrition, fisheries and forestry. Use GeoWeb’s clickable maps to get food situation reports for individual countries.
http://www.fao.org/

UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) home page:
An extremely well-designed and informative site, enabling rapid access to detailed information (reports, summaries, statistics, maps, tables) on UK farming, horticulture, environment, fisheries, food and drink, food safety and related subjects. Also includes information on Agenda 2000 - CAP reform. Good links pages to other UK government sites and ministries of agriculture in other (mainly EU) countries.
http://www.maff.gov.uk/

US Department of Agriculture (USDA) home page:
This home page leads into news items, information on US agricultural programmes and a search facility that includes a useful site map.
http://www.usda.gov/usda.htm

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) agriculture main page:
Agriculture main page of a scientists’ pressure group, concerned for the responsible use of science in the environment. Current concerns include genetically modified crops, and the promotion of organic agriculture; link to useful list of sustainable agriculture resources on the web.
http://www.ucsusa.org/globalresources/index.html

UN World Food Programme (WFP) home page:
This is the homepage for the UN food aid organisation. There is much of interest on this site, including all press releases (present year, and archives from 1995 onwards), details of projected food aid needs and individual WFP projects, emergency reports and country profiles. Interesting sections on transport, vulnerablity analysis and mapping.
http://www.wfp.org/index.htm

World Resources Institute: Feeding the World main page:

Feeding the World is an on-line report in the WRI’s Global Environmental Trends (GET) series. It raises many issues: Have yields stopped rising? Is there a trend towards world hunger? How big are post-harvest losses? At what rate is land disappearing? How important is fish farming? The link back to the GET main page enables access to studies of other global trends and to a set of perspectives on world regions.
http://www.igc.org/wri/wri/wri/wr-98-99/feeding.htm


The National Farmers Union Education main page:

Leads to a list of detailed case studies of individual working farms of different types and in different areas of the UK – excellent study material. A supplementary series of overseas farm studies is under development, with two farms in the Philippines already available.
http://www.nfu.org.uk/education/