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INTERNATIONAL LINKS

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This is a bibliographic database compiled and maintained by the US National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland.
BIOSIS, established in 1926, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster the growth, communication and use of biological knowledge. The database presently contains over 12 million citations.
CARIS is the Current Agricultural Research Information System.
A Human Approach to International Development
Natural Resources and Multi-Agent Simulations
Cultural Survival
Developing Needs-Based Inventory Methods
The Woodrow Wilson Center''''s Environmental Change and Security Project (ECSP). U.S. Foreign Policy and Global Health
The gateway to development information
The website provides details of 65 examples of biodiversity management by communities from Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development, the Gateway to Community-based mapping, P3DM and PPGIS.
This database being compiled by the International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) is a major source of information on leguminous plants, many of which have medicinal uses.
Indigenous Knowledge Pages
An Interregional Programme to Support Self-Reliance of Indigenous and Tribal Communities through Cooperatives and other Self-Help Organizations
International Society of Ethnobiology
IPGRI
which contains the database on threatened plant species.
Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
Linguistic diversity
Mountain Forum
Conference of Mountain Children
NAL is a major international source for agriculture and related information. This Web site provides access to NAL''''s many resources and a gateway to its associated institutions.
This is a very useful, free database of 11 million references which can be searched on the basis of keywords, inclduign botanical names, at the National Library of Congress in Washington.
Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World
The Overstory Book
which contains reviews of ethnobotanical literature for East and West Africa in both French and English.
PROSEA is an international programme focused on the documentation of information on plant resources of South-East Asia; covering the fields of agriculture, forestry, horticulture and botany.
The South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC) exists to ensure that the struggles of Latin America''''s Indigenous peoples for self- determination and respect are heard in the US and internationally, and to support Indigenous peoples' organizing.
New, views and information about science, technology and development
SURVEY OF ECONOMIC PLANTS FOR THE ARID AND SEMI-ARID LANDS
THE EARTH CHARTER
Is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth''''s environmetn and its capacity to provide for the needs and sapirations of curret and future generations.
Managing Agrobiodiversity in Rural Areas
Many links to a wide variety of Web sites on mushrooms
South Asia resource access on the Internet
For Community Forestry in India, Forestry Legislation and Policy" which is posted on the web site of International