U.S. Department of Agriculture
World Agricultural
Outlook Board. Supply and demand estimates, weather, and climate.
Foreign Agricultural Service.
Country and commodity information and more.
- Food
aid information. Descriptions of the P.L. 480 program, data for
the last 3 years of sales, and updates on current transactions
and press releases.
Other U.S. Government
State Department, U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID). Current news on disasters,
the agency budget, and policy updates.
- Sub-Saharan
Africa. Information on USAID activities in the region,
country information, speeches, and press releases.
Central Intelligence Agency, World
Factbook. Information (geographic, economic, and political)
on 267 geographic entities in the world.
International Organizations
United Nations, Food and Agricultural
Organization.
- FAOSTAT. Data on production,
trade, food balance sheets, fertilizer and pesticides, land use
and irrigation, forest and fishery products, population, agricultural
machinery, and food aid shipments.
-
Global Information and Early Warning System. Information on global
crop outlook, shortages, weather updates, special reports on
countries/regions suffering from severe or emergency food situations,
and country-by-country information on Sub-Saharan Africa.
World
Bank. Country and regional reports and data.
International Monetary Fund.
Publications, country information, and press releases.
Other
International Food Policy Research
Institute. Research and policy analysis for meeting the food
needs of developing countries.
FIVIMS (Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System), World Food Summit.
Michigan State University, web site for the Department
of Agricultural Economics' cooperative agreement with USAID's Global
Bureau. Links to project objectives, country/regional activities,
and publications from 1993 to the present.
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