Related Sites

Agriculture

General agriculture and farming

• Egypt: Egyptian National Agricultural Library (ENAL)
  Information about the library and its collections, Egypt's Agricultural Research Center, and the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture.
• International: Dryland Farming: Crops & Techniques for Arid Regions (Online Report)
  By Randy Creswell & Dr. Franklin W. Martin, published 1993, revised 1998 by the Education Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO).
• International: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
  CGIAR comprises 15 international agricultural research centers, several of which conduct research pertinent to drylands.
• International: FAO: The State of Food and Agriculture
  Full text of the latest version of this annual publication, plus access to previous editions — each has a special them.
• International: U.S. National Agricultural Library
  The NAL is a major international source for agricultural and related information. Many resources applicable to drylands. Includes access to AGRICOLA, a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature.
• Palestine: Dryland Farming in Palestine (Online Report)
  This report from the Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem is locally oriented but contains information that may be used for other drylands as well.
• The Pastoralism Resource Centre
  This resource features important articles for policy-makers, grassroot organizations and NGOs, academics and researchers on pastoralism-related issues.
• ICARDA: Sustainable Agriculture for the Dry Areas
  Supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and works through a network of partnerships with national, regional and international institutions, universities, non-governmental organizations and ministries in the developing world; and with advanced research institutes in industrialized countries. ICARDA works to improve the welfare of poor people and alleviate poverty through research and training in dry areas of the developing world

Plants in agriculture (including botany, horticulture, crop management...)

• Plant Stress
  Coping with plant environmental stress is the foundation of sustainable agriculture. The purpose of this Website is to serve as a brokerage of information, a meeting place, a consultation facility and a source for professional update on the most important issues of plant environmental stress.
• SEPASAL: Survey of Economic Plants of Arid and Semi-Arid Lands
  SEPASAL is a major economic botany database on useful plants of drylands, developed and maintained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Registration is required to use the database.
• USDA Agricultural Research Service: Cropping Systems Research Lab
  Located in the dry plains of West Texas, this laboratory currently focuses on drylands-relevant research including plant stress/germplasm development, wind erosion/water conservation, and cotton production/processing.

Animals in agriculture (including range management...)

• Forage Information System (Oregon State University)
  Links to worldwide forage-related information. Not specifically drylands-oriented, but much information here will be of interest to drylands range managers and researchers.
• Global Livestock CRSP
  Working to improve food security and quality of life in developing countries through collaborative partnerships with US land-grant institutions and national and international agencies.

Pests and pest management

• Africa: The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
  Based in Nairobi, and with a particular focus on Africa, this advanced research institute works to develop technologies to alleviate poverty and to ensure food security and good health for tropical peoples through management and control of both harmful and useful arthropods.
• International: USDA Whitefly Knowledgebase
  Whiteflies attack many crops grown in arid and semi-arid lands. This database covers the whitefly life cycle from egg to adult, host range, plant damage, and pest control management.

Soils and soil management

• US: Emergency Wind Erosion Control
  From the University of Nebraska, in the semi-arid Great Plains; covers temporary techniques for emergency wind erosion control.
• US: National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory
  focal point for US research on soil erosion by water. Provides access to free software for modeling water erosion (Water Erosion Prediction Project) and accessing crop information (Crop Parameter Intelligent Database System).
• US/Mexico: Soil Ecology & Restoration Group, San Diego State University
  Research focusing on ecosystem dynamics of drylands--especially soils and belowground processes--primarily in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
• US: United States Salinity Laborary (USSL)
  A National Laboratory for basic research on the chemistry, physics, and biology of salt-affected soil-plant-water systems.
• US: Wind Erosion Research Unit (WERU)
  Focal point for US research on soil erosion by wind.
• World Soil Resources: Map Index
  From the US Department of Agriculture's office of Natural Resources Conservation Service, the World Soil Resources Map-Index Website contains nineteen global maps as well as several regional and country maps related to soil. The global maps include such topics as Global Soil Regions, Soil Temperature Regimes, Water Holding Capacity, and Wind Erosion; the regional maps contain information from Afghanistan, Africa, Albania, Lithuania, and Indonesia. Each map contains information on its specifications and source, and can be viewed online or downloaded as a high quality bitmap (.bmp) file.

IALC Member Institutions: College of Agriculture links

• US Member Institutions
  • New Mexico State University College of Agriculture and Home Economics
  • South Dakota State University College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences
  • University of Arizona College of Agriculture
  • Texas A & M University - Kingsville College of Agriculture and Human Sciences
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
• Israeli Member Institutions (under umbrella of Jewish National Fund/Keren Kayemeth Le'Israel)
  • Hebrew University Faculty of Agriculture
  • Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Agricultural Engineering