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The Food and Agriculture Organisation
of the United Nations Home Page - www.fao.org,
Also worth visiting:The Strategic Framework for FAO 2000-2015:
www.fao.org/strategicframework,
The Fisheries Information system: www.fao.org/fi/default.asp,
The Food Insecurity & Vulnerability Information Monitoring
System (FIVIMS): www.fivims.net,
Domestic Animal Diversity (DAD) Information System: www.dad.fao.org/en/Home.htm,
The Information Network on Post-Harvest Operations: www.fao.org/inpho,
FAO Sustainable Development Dimensions: Knowledge: Communication
for Development: www.fao.org/sd/KN1_en.htm
, Animal Production and Health:
www.fao.org/ag/aga.html
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Additional resources under FAO's Animal
Production and Health department: 2 sections related to
milk, how to improve the whole chain (production, processing,
marketing) increasing quality, reducing losses: www.fao.org/ag/againfo/subjects/en/dairy/home.html
and www.fao.org/ag/againfo/projects/en/pfl/home.html.
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The International Network for Family Poultry
Development (INFPD) is an information exchange network under
the FAO's Agriculture Department. It is a network targeting
small scale poultry producers.
www.fao.org/ag/againfo/subjects/en/infpd/home.html
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The First Consultation on Agricultural
Information Management (COAIM) June 2000. The Consultation
covered all aspects of agricultural information management,
capacity building and improving access to relevant information.
It sets out the policy framework for WAICENTs work. Website
includes workshop reports and plenary papers on key topics.
www.fao.org/coaim/
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FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual
database currently containing over 1 million time-series records
covering international statistics on: Production, Trade, Food
Balance Sheets, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation,
Forest Products, Fishery Products, Population, Agricultural
Machinery, Food Aid Shipments. www.apps.fao.org/default.htm
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| The Global Information and
Early Warning System (GIEWS) provides policy-makers and
relief agencies throughout the world with the most up-to-date
information available on all aspects of food supply and demand.
It provides regular bulletins on food crop production and markets
at the global level and situation reports on a regional and
country-by-country basis. www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/giewse.htm |
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| IFAD is supporting an Internet
based system in Latin America and the Caribbean - FIDAMERICA
- that has used ICTs to assist the rural communities to access
agricultural, market and technical information and to improve
access to financial systems. It offers facilities for knowledge
and information exchange through electronic conferencing, e-mail,
databases and web sites. FIDAMERICA, now in its second phase,
has 41 projects and programmes in the region and involves about
3600 community organisations and 500,000 families. www.fidamerica.cl |
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| Electronic Networking for Rural
Asia/Pacific Projects (ENRAP) is an IFAD-funded initiative
to support internet use and knowledge sharing amongst rural
development projects in Asia/Pacific region. Effective use of
internet information resources and communication facilities
shall contribute to the empowerment of rural communities and
help address their development objectives. www.enrap.org |
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| TeleCommons Development Group's
Rural ICT Access: Digital Divide Annotated Bibliography was
initiated as part of a contract to provide strategic recommendations
for the African Connection Secretariat in 2000. This inventory
of reports and documents is accessible online and can be viewed
according to the following categories: ICTs and Sustainable
Development; Policy and Regulations; Applications and Content
Infrastructure; Training and Capacity Building; Non-Internet
Initiatives; Projects/Initiatives in Progress; and Gender. http://www.telecommons.com/reports.cfm?itemid=213 |
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| Information Communication Technology
page for UNDP. The site also hosts info21 which provides
information on the programmes, initiatives and activities of
UNDP. This includes global partnerships , such as Netaid run
with Cisco Systems, the Global Knowledge conference (II), and
individual projects such as training for womens groups and IT
centres in Egypt. UNDP projects include: technology access community
centres (TACCs); internet initiative for Africa; sustainable
development networking programme (SDNP); distance education
training site. http://sdnhq.undp.org/it4dev
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| The International Institute
for Communication and Development (IICD) assists developing
countries to utilise the opportunities offered by information
and communication technologies (ICTs) towards realising sustainable
development. IICD uses a cross-sectoral approach, in which local
'agents of change' themselves identify and develop proposals
for realistic ICT applications. In IICD's view, local ownership
forms an essential basis for sustainable socio-economic development.
IICD's focus countries are to date Burkina Faso, Ghana, Tanzania,
Zambia, Mali, Uganda, Jamaica and Bolivia.
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The goals of the Communication Initiative
include are to: improve strategic communication thinking on
development issues; advance the extent and quality of communication
for change information; effectively advocate the effectiveness
of communication for sustainable development; expand dialogue,
debate and review of key communication issues and programmes.
Partners include CIDA, EU, UNAIDS, USAID, UNICEF, WHO, PANOS,
BBC & Rockefeller Foundation. www.comminit.com/index
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| Bellanet is an international
initiative with a mission to increase the impact of development
activities through greater collaboration. Collaboration is enhanced
by more effective use of information and communication technologies
(ICTs). www.bellanet.org/ |
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| DFID Resource Centre and Knowledge
Bank for Education and ICT use in developing countries.
Partnerships with Private sector companies are being sought
and project funding will come from expanded regional education
budgets. Papers and resources on this site. www.imfundo.org |
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| The Information for Development
Program (infoDev) began in September 1995 with the objective
of addressing the obstacles facing developing countries in an
increasingly information-driven world economy. It is a global
grant program managed by the World Bank to promote innovative
projects on the use of information and communication technologies
(ICTs) for economic and social development, with a special emphasis
on the needs of the poor in developing countries. www.infodev.org |
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| The Acacia Initiative is
an international program to empower sub-Saharan communities
with the ability to apply information and communication technologies
to their own social and economic development. Acacia works mainly
with rural and disadvantaged communities, and particularly their
women and youth groups. Often these communities find themselves
isolated from the ICT networks to which their urban counterparts
increasingly have access. Yet at the same time these communities
demonstrate enormous creativity and enterprise living. www.idrc.ca/acacia/ |
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