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Useful websites on agriculture
Organisation	Description
FAO	General overview of agricultural commodities: Trends / Prices / Consumption/Production
FAOSTAT	Production, Consumption, Prices on a range of commodities
FAO/Global Perspectives	Futurist Research: Long-run trends with regard to commodities, consumption and market structure
USDA/ERS	Detailed reports on the size, shape and structure of markets
USAD/PSD	Production, supply, and distribution of agricultural commodities for the United States and major importing and exporting countries.
USDA/FAS	Market (defined as a country) information for a particular product The GAIN reports are very useful, providing ‘on-the-ground’ market information.  To access these reports, use the general search engine on the FAS site and type "GAIN"
International Food Policy Research Institute	Agricultural policies to alleviate poverty
Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development	Research papers
International Fund for Agricultural Development	Promoting small scale agriculture
Food and Agricultural Policy Research Unit	Commodities and elasticities database
International Centre for Tropical Agriculture	Case studies about improving small scale farmers' agricultural techniques
Ideas	Large databank of peer-reviewed papers (350,000)
Agricultural Issues Centre	Commodity information
AgMRC	Information about value-added agriculture.
Agricultural Research for Developing Countries	Sustainable development of tropical and Mediterranean regions.
National Resources Institute	Small scale agriculture / Creating sustainable activities for small scale farmers
The World Vegetable Centre	Improving small-scale farmers activities throughout the value-chain
CGIAR Virtual Library: A New Online Resource for Agricultural Development Professionals.	The CGIAR Virtual Library  is an internet gateway that allows agriculture and development specialists to search an interdisciplinary array of leading databases on agriculture, food policy and the environment.  It enables users to retrieve thousands of full-text documents, abstracts or references from the online libraries of the CGIAR research centres and over 160 other databases.
Useful papers on general agriculture themes
Title	Author
Demand for Food Quantity and Quality in China	Fred Gale and Kuo Huang
China: A Study of Dynamic Growth	Mathew Shane and Fred Gale
New Directions in China's Agricultural Lending	Fred Gale and Robert Collender
Where Will Demographics Take the Asia-Pacific Food System?	Walter J. Armbruster, Brad Gilmour
Recent Agricultural Policy Reforms in North America	Steven Zahniser, Ed Young, and John Wainio
The future role of bio-fuels (Asia)
Are Poor, Remote Areas Left Behind in Agricultural Development: The case of Tanzania	Nicholas Minot
Market Institutions: Enhancing the Value of Rural-Urban Links	Shyamal Chowdhury; Asfaw Negassa; and Maximo Torero
The Dragon and the Elephant: Agricultural and Rural Reforms in China and India.	Ashok Gulati, Shenggen Fan and Sara Dalafi. September 2005.
Globalization and the Smallholders: A Review of Issues, Approaches, and Implications	Sudha Narayanan and Ashok Gulati
Successes in African Agriculture: Results of an Expert Survey	Eleni Z. Gabre-Madhin and Steven Haggblade
Managing Price Volatility in an Open Economy Environment: The Case of Edible Oils and Oilseeds in India	P. V. Srinivasan
The Promises and Challenges of Biofuels for the Poor in Developing Countries	Joachim von Braun and R. K. Pachauri
Lessons Learned from the Dragon (China) and the Elephant (India)	Joachim von Braun, Ashok Gulati, et al
Changing Diets in China's Cities: Empirical Fact or Urban Legend?	Fengxia Dong, Frank H. Fuller
Analysis of the Link between Ethanol, Energy, and Crop Markets	Simla Tokgoz, Amani Elobeid
Market Institutions Enhancing the Value of Rural-Urban Links	Shyamal Chowdhury; Asfaw Negassa; and Maximo Torero
New Directions in China's Agricultural Lending	Fred Gale and Robert Collender
China's Rising Fruit and Vegetable Exports Challenge U.S. Industries	Sophia Huang and Fred Gale
Non-tariff barriers
Title	Author
International Trade and Food Safety: Economic Theory and Case Studies	Jean C. Buzby, editor
Non-Tariff Barriers	John C. Beghin
China’s New Farm Subsidies	Fred Gale, Bryan Lohmar, and Francis Tuan
Global food consumption patterns
Title	Author
Changing Structure of Global Food Consumption and Trade	Anita Regmi
U.S. and EU Consumption Comparisons	Lorraine Mitchell
Religion, Religiosity, and the Consumption of Timesaving Foods	Amir Heiman, Bruce McWilliams, and David Zilberman
Commercialization of Food Consumption in Rural China	Fred Gale, Ping Tang, Xianhong Bai, and Huijun Xu
Demand for Food Quantity and Quality in China	Fred Gale and Kuo Huang
Food markets
Title	Author
New Directions in Global Food Markets	Anita Regmi and Mark Gehlhar
The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets?	W. Bruce Traill
The U.S. Food Marketing System, 2002	J. Michael Harris, Phil Kaufman, Steve Martinez, and Charlene Price
Trade agreements, focusing on agriculture
Title	Author
U.S. Agriculture and the Free Trade Area of the Americas	Mary E. Burfisher (editor)
Trade Among Unequal Partners	Gene Hasha
EU Enlargement: Implications for New Member Countries, the United States, and World Trade	Nancy Cochrane and Ralph Seeley
North America Moves Toward One Market	Steven Zahniser
NAFTA at 11: The Growing Integration of North American Agriculture	Steven Zahniser, editor
Agricultural Trade Preferences and the Developing Countries	John Wainio, Shahla Shapouri,Michael Trueblood, and Paul Gibson05
Impact of the European Enlargement and Common Agricultural Policy Reforms on Agricultural Markets: Much Ado about Nothing?	Jacinto F. Fabiosa, John C. Beghin, Fengxia Dong, Amani Elobeid, Frank H. Fuller, Holger Matthey, Simla Tokgoz, Eric Wailes
Global value chains
Title	Author
Vertical co-ordination in high-value commodities: Implications for smallholders	Pratap S. Birthal, P.K. Joshi, and Ashok Gulati
Agricultural Diversification in India and Role of Urbanization	P. Parthasarathy Rao, P.S. Birthal, P.K. Joshi and D. Kar
Domestic Support to Agriculture in the European Union and the United States: Policy Developments Since 1996	Gopinath, Kathleen Mullen, and Ashok Gulati
Vertical Coordination in High-Value Food Commodities: Implications for Smallholders	Pratap S. Birthal1, P. K. Joshi2 and Ashok Gulati2
Market access
Title	Author
Market Access for High-Value Foods	Anita Regmi, Mark Gehlhar, John Wainio, Thomas Vollrath, Paul Johnston, and Nitin Kathuria
Agricultural Trade Preferences and the Developing Countries	By John Wainio, Shahla Shapouri, Michael Trueblood, and Paul Gibson
Tell Me Where It Hurts, An' I'll Tell You Who to Call: Industrialized Countries' Agricultural Policies and Developing Countries	Xinshen Diao, Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Sherman Robinson, and David Orden
Rethinking Agricultural Domestic Support under the World Trade Organization	Chad E. Hart, John C. Beghin
Global Agricultural Liberalization: An In-Depth Assessment of What Is At Stake	Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, John C. Beghin
Horticulture
Title	Author
Are Horticultural Exports a Replicable Success Story? Evidence from Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire	Nicholas Minot and Margaret Ngigi
Horticulture for Poverty Alleviation -- The Unfunded Revolution	K. Weinberger and T.A. Lumpkin. 2005.
Regulatory Barriers in International Horticultural Markets	Donna Roberts and Barry Krissoff
Assessing the Competitiveness of the Horticultural Sector in the Beira Corridor	USAID
The Growth and Development of the Horticultural Sector  in Zimbabwe	Stanley T Heri