Web Links - Chapter 4
Food as a Resource
Website Description
Examines the near and long-term prospects for global food aid needs and for food aid availabilities from donor countries. Factors considered include supply and demand, prices, trade, food production, crop yields, fertilizer use, land constraints, water and irrigation, population growth, food consumption and nutrition, domestic policies and foreign exchange availabilities. Text files and PDF's for these topics.
Background information on The Green Revolution and ideas to simulate The Green Revolution in your classroom.
Annual data for 160 regions and countries on macroeconomics; consumption; factors of production; aggregate production (value and indexes); crop production, area, and yield and livestock production by commodity; value of total merchandise and agricultural trade (including US bilateral trade), and trade indicators and value of agricultural trade by commodity groups.
This website is part of the WWW virtual library and offers extensive information about agriculture.
The website for the World Food Program organisation which is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger.
Official website of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, it provides detailed analyses on their work around the world along with up to date news articles on issues around the world relating to food and agriculture.
The Yahoo directory to agriculture sites on the web.
A webpage providing many useful links on the topic of agriculture.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Online. The site provides sections on the environment and sustainability, agricultural policy and links to other related website.
The United States Department of Agriculture's Home Page. It provides catalogued news articles, along with detailed information on USDA actions.
