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Technology, Information & Research
Knowledge generation and management in agriculture is critical to improving agricultural productivity, safety, and sustainability. Agricultural knowledge is created and shared in areas such as scientific and technological advancements (such as in biotechnology and post harvesting practices), research, information management and exchange.This section provides resources specific to these issues, including research publications, databases, statistics, and agricultural project and program information.
Agricultural technology
- Measuring plant-associated nitrogen fixation in agricultural systems
- Computerising agricultural cooperatives: a practical guide
- Soil constraints & management package: guidelines for sustainable management of tropical upland soils
- ICTs: transforming agricultural extension?
- Agricultural R&D in the developing world: too little, too late?
- Using computer-based technologies to support farmers' decision making
- The role of technology in sustainable agriculture
Biotechnology
- Biofuel expansion: challenges, risks and opportunities for rural poor people
- Can agricultural biotechnology be pro-poor?
- Genetically modified organisms, consumers, food safety & the environment
- Using genetically modified organisms in agricultural production
- Improvement of rice breeding by biotechnology approach
Post-harvest technologies & techniques
- Drying systems to improve grain quality in north-east India
- Post harvest and off farm techniques
- Post harvest commodities: technical briefs
- New developments in the cold chain: specific issues in warm countries
- Prevention of post harvest food losses training manual
- Post harvest deterioration of cassava
- African experience in the improvement of post-harvest techniques
- Packaging for fruits, vegetables & root crops
- Traditional post-harvest technology of perishable tropical staples
- Post harvest technology resources
Research websites, journals and other resources
Statistics, databases & information resources
- CG Virtual Library
- Cereal Knowledge Bank
- National & international meteorological & oceanographic information
- Environmental management
- M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation: research on sustainable agricultural & rural development
- Glossary of FAO databases & information systems
- Tropical forages database
- NACA: Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific
Project & program information
- AusAID Collaboration for Agricultural & Rural Development (CARD) program, Vietnam
- Farming Solutions
- Targeting poor farmers: contributions to rural development in Thailand
- Qinghai community development project evaluation report
- Increasing rural incomes: an evaluation of rural sector projects in Samoa
- Growing rice & protecting forests: evaluation of food production projects in SEA
- Developing rural communities in marginal & rainfed areas: agricultural projects in the Philippines
- PNG agricultural cluster evaluation
- Applications of lessons learned: sustainability
- Agriculture and rural development