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Sustainable Agriculture Information Links & Resources

Initial 5/05/04 Updated 05/11/08

Purpose:

    The purpose of this webpage is to provide veterinarians, students, livestock producers and consumers links to materials on the complex and inter-related issues impacting agricultural resilience, sustainability and food security. As many of these issues are controversial because they involve public policy decisions impacting major stakeholders, often with competing interests and opposing positions, and infrastructures on local, national and international scales, my intent is to include materials from all sides of such issues. Although I've tended to focus on the more science-based academic, government and NGO on-line and print  materials, these materials are not screened for veracity or position but listed because the site or source appeared that it might contain useful information.  Material appearing in the scientific refereed literature that is not publicly accessible on-line is not included as it is identifiable through bibliographic databases such as PubMed and ISI's Web of Science. As government entities are involved, much of their associated literature is "grey", meaning that it is not identifiable through the traditional literature databases. As many of these issues are controversial and the blog phenomenon is very active, I link the more interesting, relevant in-depth posts that I happen to run across.  Materials are organized approximately alphabetically under headings or subheadings but as growth is by irregular incremental additions (punctated evolution?) as I explore varying issues over time and my understanding develops and changes, the organization tends more toward chaos than order. In other words, it's a mess. I cannot vouch for the accuracy or usefulness of these on-line materials. Please let me know of useful materials and links that I've overlooked or of errors that I've made (no spaces in -  j m gay at wsu dot the usual educational suffix).

Issues of Varying Agricultural and Food Security, Sustainability and Resilience Concern & Controversy:

  • Economic Globalization
  • Emerging Infectious Agents, Parasites
  • Global Climate Variability, Change
  • Genetic Diversity - Invasive Species, GMO's, Extinction
  • Increasing Petroleum Scarcity, shift to Biofuels
  • Regional Human Population Expansion
  • Regional Soil Depletion, Salinization
  • Regional Fresh Water Scarcity

Contents (Major Headings):

As this is a collection in progress, I apologize in advance for omissions, misinterpretations and general disorganization chaos, which includes section to section inconsistencies.

Synthesis / data / graphics (temporary bin)

Food Security - Sustainability and Resilience

abelard - land conservation and food production

AERU - Agribusiness & Economics Research Unit - Lincoln University, NZ

agroterrorism:

Counter-Terrorism Training and Resources for Law Enforcement - Food Publications

aquaculture:

BIOME (Univ of Nottingham)

Center for Food & Justice - UEPI - Urban & Environmental Policy Institute - Occidental College

Center for Global Food Issues (Hudson Institute)

Centre for Studies in Food Security (Ryerson University)

Center for Sustainable Systems - Keoleian, Gregory A. U Mich

  • Life Cycle Based Indicators for Sustainable Agriculture (pdf)

consumer storage and preparation energy:

Crop Diversity Trust

CS Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems - Michigan State University

Development Gateway Foundation

Earth Policy Institute

  • Books
  • Supermarkets and Service Stations Now Competing for Grain (7/13/06)

EarthTrends: Environmental Information Portal (water, climate, energy, food, population)

ELDIS Gateway to Development Information - Internet development  information service

energy in food production:

Environmental Literacy Council

FAO

FAO GIEWS: Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture

Special Programme for Food Security

Organic agriculture, environment and food security, 2002 (N El-Hage Scialabba C Hattam) TOC

Livestock to 2020 The Next Food Revolution, 1999 (83 pg. pdf)

FAPRI - Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, U Missouri

FCRN - Food Climate Research Network

food excess:

I couldn't have said it better myself (9/05 Stayin' Alive blog post  on Marion Nestle Preventing Childhood Diabetes: The Need for Public Health Intervention. Am J Public Health, 95(9):1497-1499, 2005)

FoodFirst: Institute for Food and Development Policy

food justice: "the right of every person to have reasonable access to a supply of food that is adequate in terms of both amount and nutritional value"

  • DMIBlog
    • Food Justice in New York (7/7/06)
  • Food Justice Strategy Bill (UK, 2003)
  • Greenblade::Justice Journal blog
  • How Harlem Eats (MW Griffith, The Nation 8/24/06)
  • People's Grocery blog - food justice
  • The “Food Justice” Movement: Trying To Break the Food Chains (Gotham Gazette 12/03)

food politics:

Food Politics (Marion Nestle, New York U)

texts:

  • Voting with your trolley: Can you really change the world just by buying certain foods? The Economist 12/7/06

Food Security Network (dialogue addressing solutions to global food security concerns through sustainable agricultural practices)

Food21

Food21 Symposium (2004 - pdf)

Future Harvest

GECAFS - Global Environmental Change and Food Systems

  • publications
    • Assessing the vulnerability of food systems to global environmental change: a conceptual and methodological review, 2006 (pdf)
    • Climate Change and Food Security.  PJ Gregory, JSI Ingram, M Brklacich (2005). Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B  360: 2139–2148 (pdf)
    • Food Security and Institutions in Protracted Crises: Enhancing Food Systems Resilience (ppt)
    • Global Enviro n m e n t a l Change and Food P rovision: A New Role for Science, 2002 (pdf)

hunger:

ICRISAT - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

Institute of Science in Society

  • Current food production system due for collapse (html)
  • Feeding the World under Climate Change (6/04, html)
  • Sustainable Agriculture: Critical Ecological, Social & Economic Issues (7/04, html)

IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute

  • IMPACT: Global Trends in Food Supply and Demand
    • Publications
      • Livestock to 2020. The next food revolution (pdf)
      • Understanding the Links between Agriculture and Health - Focus 13 TOC, 2006
  • New Risks and Opportunities for Food Security Scenario Analyses for 2015 and 2050 (index pdf)

IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis - Science for Global Insight

ILRI - International Livestock Research Institute

IMF - World Economic and Financial Surveys - recent publications

  • Housing and the Business Cycle (4/08 pdf, Chap. 5 Commodity Prices)

Informa economics

  • Analysis of Potential Causes of Consumer Food Price Inflation, 2007 (pdf)

Kitchen Gardeners International

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture (Iowa State U)

  • Speeches and presentations
  • Staff papers:
    • Food, Fuel, and Freeways: An Iowa perspective on how far food travels, fuel usage, and greenhouse gas emissions (2001, pdf)
    • The Economic Impacts of Increased Fruit and Vegetable Production and Consumption in Iowa: Phase II (5/06)

life cycle analyses:

  • Canning Green Beans: Ecoprofile of Truitt Bothers Process, 2007 (IERE pdf)
  • Comparative Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of New Zealand’s and the UK’s Dairy Industry, 2007 (C Saunders, A Barber, Lincoln U AERU Research Report No. 297, pdf)
  • Food Miles – Comparative Energy/Emissions Performance of New Zealand’s Agriculture Industry, 2006 (C Saunders, A Barber, G Taylor, Lincoln U AERU Research Report No. 285, pdf)
  • LCA Food Database
  • Tangerines per Gallon (Chicago Boyz blog, 7/29/07)
  • Tangerines by the Gallon (Political Calculations blog, 8/7/07) - includes calculator

livestock:

  • A manual for the primary animal health care worker (on-line, FAO 1994)
  • Community-Based Animal Healthcare: A Practical Guide to Improving Primary Veterinary Services, 2001 (Amazon)
  • Community based drought management for the pastoral livestock sector in sub-Saharan Africa, 2003 (doc)
  • Livestock's Long Shadow (FAO, 2006) - PDF, 5MB
  • Veterinary institutions in the developing world: current status and future needs, C. de Haan, ed. (Scientific and Technical Review, 23(1), 2004)
  • Vetwork UK
  • World livestock production systems Current status, issues and trends, 1995 FAO - TOC

NASA - Global Change Master Directory

NCIFAP - National Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production

nutrients and requirements:

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)

  • Towards Sustainable Household Consumption? Trends and Policies in OECD Countries (2002, pdf1, pdf2)

Oxfam America

  • Cuba: Going against the grain (food crisis - index)

PECC - Pacific Economic Cooperation Council - Industry Sector: Food & Agriculture

plant pathology:

International Society for Plant Pathology

Text:

PROFETAS - PROtein Foods, Environment, Technology and Society

QLIF - Quality Low Input Food

Safe Food and Fertilizer

SAGE - Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment

SDC - Sustainable Development Commission (UK) -f arming  food

  • A vision for sustainable agriculture, 2001 pdf

Sierra Club

  • Decoder: Miles to Go Before You Eat - Why it pays to buy locally grown food (5/31/06)

Soil Association

supply and demand:

The Sustainable Food Laboratory

transport:

  • Food transport indicators to 2004 (DEFRA, pdf)

UNICEF

UN System Network on Rural Development and Food Security

USDA

WHO

  • Nutrition in emergencies - related publications and documents
    • Food and nutrition needs in emergencies. Rome, World Food Programme, 2003.pdf
    • The Sphere Project: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response
      • Sphere Handbook, 2004 TOC

World Bank

  • Managing the Livestock Revolution: Policy and Technology to Address the Negative Impacts of a Fast-Growing Sector (2005, pdf)

World Hunger Notes

WRI - World Resources Institute

Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

  • Delivery services for urban shopping: experiences & perspectives (2004, Bohler & Reutter, pdf)

People:

Texts, Presentations:

  • African farm trajectories and the sub-continental food crisis (2005, G Djurfeldt, R Larsson, pdf)
  • Assessing the Impact of the Green Revolution, 1960 to 2000 (RE Evenson, D Gollin, Science 300:758-762, 2003)
  • Carbon Cycling: A sustainable path to food and energy (pdf)
  • Climate variability and the Millennium development goal hunger target (9/04, index, pdf)
  • Current food consumption patterns and global sustainability (html pdf)
  • Diet, Energy and Global Warming (2005, G Eshel, P Martin, pdf)
  • Ears of plenty: The story of wheat (The Economist, 12/20/05, html)
  • Eating Fossil Fuels (2004, DE Pfeiffer, From the Wilderness Publications, html)
  • Eating Oil (Andy Jones, Resurgence 216, Stockholm Environment Institute, Univ York)
  • Economists Study Implications Of High Diesel Prices on Farming (K-state research and extension, 5/05 html)
  • Edible oil turns into bio-diesel (The Financial Express, 7/11/06)
  • Energy Use for Cooking and Other Stages in the Life Cycle of Food (2001, pdf)
  • Environmental Impacts from Swedish Food Production and Consumption (2004, pdf)
  • Feeding a world of 10 billion people: The TVA/IFDC legacy (2003, Norman Borlaug, pdf)
  • Food sector and material flows- a short contribution (M Ritthoff, Wuppertal Inst, pdf)
  • Food Security, agricultural technology and policy - the case of maize in sub-Saharan Africa (G Djurfeldt, R Larsson, pdf)
  • Food That Travels Well (JE McWilliams, The New York Times, 8/6/07)
  • Food and Energy in Japan - How will Japan feed itself in the 21st Century? (AFF Boys, 2000, html,  pdf)
  • Global food security: Challenges and policies (MW Rosegrant, SA Cline, Science 302:1917-1919, 2003, pdf)
  • Global Warming Could Slam Food Supply (ABC news 8/5/06)
  • Home Grown: The Case For Local Food In A Global Market (2002, B Halweil, Worldwatch Inst library, pdf)
  • How Much Fossil Fuel Did You Eat Today?: My Saudi Arabian Breakfast (2006, C Heeter, html)
  • How much greenhouse gases in our plate? (html)
  • The impact of household food consumption on resource and energy management (M Faist, S Kytzia, P Baccini, Int. J. Environment and Pollution, 15(2):183–199. pdf (bad pdf graphics))
  • Institutions, Markets and Policies for Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth (A Dorward, J Kydd, J Morrison, C Poulton, pdf)
  • Is Meat Sustainable? (2004, Worldwatch Institute World Watch, July/August, pdf (registration required))
  • Life Cycle Based Indicators for Sustainable Agriculture (pdf)
  • One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum (The Nation, 8/24/06)
  • Oil and Food: A rising security challenge (2005, L Brown, Earth Policy Institute)
  • Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Supply (Consequences 1(2), 1995 html)
  • Problems and Prospects of the World Food Situation, 2000 (TG Gebremedhin, J Agribusiness 18(2):221-236, pdf)
  • Quantification of the environmental impact of different dietary protein choices (Am J Clin Nutr 78(3):664S-668S, html)
  • Soil and Trouble (2004, set of papers on soil - Science index)
  • Sustainable Food Security for all By 2020 - TOC (papers as PDFs)
  • The Farmer's Share: Compare the Share, 2006 (pdf)
  • Threats of Peak Oil to the Global Food Supply (7/05, Richard Heinberg, MuseLetter)
  • The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2005 (pdf)

Nature

New Scientist

The Wilderness Publications

  • Cuba - A Hope (The Agricultural Crises in North Korea and Cuba - Pt. 2 - html)

books:

  • Feed or Feedback: Agriculture, Population Dynamics and the State of the Planet (2003, A Duncan Brown, Amazon)
  • Feeding the Ten Billion: Plants and population growth (1998, Lloyd T. Evans,  Amazon)
    • Review - Feeding Ten Billion People. Three views (Plant Physiol, 126:20-22 (2001) html)
  • Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure, 2006 (NAS TOC)
  • Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (2005, L Brown, Earth Policy Institute Amazon)
    • on-line version - TOC (pdf & html)
  • Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress & a Civilization in Trouble (2003, LR Brown, Amazon)
    • on-line version - TOC (pdf & html)
  • Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (2006, LR Brown, Amazon)
    • o-line version - TOC (pdf & html)
      • Chap. 9: Feeding Seven Billion Well (pdf)
    • American Scientist review 5/06
  • Plants and Population: Is There Time? (1999 NAS Colloquium, TOC)
    • Plants and Populations: Is there time? NV Fedoroff, JE Cohen, Proc Nat Acad Sci 96:5903-5907 (pdf)
  • Six Arguments for a Greener Diet How a More Plant-Based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment (2006, MF Jacobson, Staff of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, 248 pp. ISBN 0-89329-049-1, Amazon)
  • The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006, M Pollan, UC Berkeley, Amazon)
  • The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, 2006 (Peter Singer, Princeton ethicist, Amazon)
  • The World Food Problem: Tackling the Causes of Undernutrition in the Third World, 3rd ed, (2004, H Leathers, P Foster, Amazon)
    • review1, review2 1st ed.
    • The World Food Problem: It’s All about Distribution (Isn’t It?), 2003 H Leathers - doc (link down 11/07)
  • What to Eat, 2006 (Marion Nestle, professor New York U - Amazon)

courses:

The Encyclopedia of Earth

Wikipedia - Food Security

blogs/news:

  • AlterNet - EnviroHealth
    • Meat is a Global Warming Issue (8/24/06)
    • Will the End of Oil Be the End Of Food? (8/31/06)
  • BenettOnTalk
  • Big Food Watch (Michele Simon)
  • CounterCurrents
    • The End of Cheap Food (8/4/07)
  • Crumb Trail (dead domain as of 12/05)
  • ehp - environmental health perspectives - agriculture/farming
    • Pesticides disrupt nitrogen fixation (12/07)
  • Energy Bulletin - Agriculture News
    • Current food production system due for collapse (ISIS, 4/7/05)
    • Pollan's new book on the U.S. food chain - the "oil diet" (4/11/06)
  • Environmental Economics
    • Diet and the Environment (6/08/06)
  • EnviroStats!
    • 2.015 billion metric tonnes of grains was harvested globally in 2005, down 2.5% from 2004 when the 2 billion barrier was broken for the first time in history, requiring half the world’s cropland, nearly 2/3 of irrigated land and accounting for 47% of our calories and 42% of our protein (7/16/07)
    • Each year, a person produces about 500L of urine which offers 0.2 kg of extractable phosphorus for fertilizers. This is 1.4% of the phosphorus required to produce 2,690 kg of wheat in a hectare of land each year, 1.3% phosphorus for 3,226 kg of barley and 0.9% phosphorus for 1,960 kg of rapeseed (7/27/07)
  • Feedstuffs FoodLink
  • FT.com
    • Food crisis is a chance to reform global agriculture (4/29/08)
  • FuturePundit
    • Biomass Energy Will Boost Carbon Dioxide Emissions (8/18/07)
    • Biomass Energy To Drive Up Food Prices In Next 10 Years (7/7/07)
    • Humans Use Nearly a Quarter of World Biomass? (7/7/07)
  • GristMill
    • Food as a commodity (1/16/06, Tom Philpott, Bitter Greens Journal)
    • Eat the Press: An interview with foodie author Michael Pollan (5/31/06)
    • Good Bite, and Good Luck: On freezing local foods (10/17/05)
    • Rattling the Food Chain: A cornucopia of new books tells us where our food comes from (8/31/06)
    • Soy You Want to Be a Vegetarian: On soy vs. meat (10/12/05)
  • Muck and Mystery
    • Food Fashions (12/11/06)
    • Agricultural Problems (9/04)
    • Enviro-Ethics (6/5/06)
    • Factoids (5/06)
    • Fine Grain Analysis (6/05)
    • Fossil Fertilizer (4/06)
    • Habitat Management (4/05)
    • Nitrogen Transport (6/05)
    • A Miracle (5/06)
    • Petroleum Fertilizer (4/06)
    • Secret Ingredients (3/06)
    • Sweet Nothings (6/06) - maize
    • Tree Fluffers (5/05)
  • New Scientist - Environment
    • Billions at risk from wheat super-blight (4/3/07)
  • Perishable Pundit (Jim Prevor)
    • Can Organics Feed the Earth (9/11/07)
    • Pundit’s Mailbag – Life Cycle Analysis Used For Marketing Purposes (9/7/07)
    • What Is 'Life Cycle Analysis'? (8/29/07)
  • Resilience Science
    • World Hunger – Successes and failures on the road to meet the Millennium Development Goals (11/1/06)
    • Estimating Greenlash from Agriculture via Climatic Regulation (9/1/06)
    • Fishing through marine foodwebs (3/5/06)
  • Resource Insights - Kurt Cobb
    • Is just-in-time nearly out of time? (8/13/06)
    • The Newest Guest at Your Dinner Table: Your Car (5/26/06)
  • Sustainable Table
  • Swivel
  • The Oil Drum
    • Food to 2050 (3/10/08)
    • The Next Agriculture? (3/7/08)
    • US Grain Exports - Where to, how much? (3/5/08)
    • Fire and Rain: The Consequences of Changing Climate on Rainfall, Wildfire and Agriculture (2/21/08)
    • The Retreat of Goyder's Line (2/2/08)
    • The Fallacy of Reversibility (1/22/08)
    • Peak Oil, Peak Food, Peak Risk (1/9/08)
    • Food Price Inflation (12/17/07)
    • The Connection Between Food Supply and Energy: What Is the Role of Oil Price? (11/23/07)
    • Peak Phosphorus (8/17/07)
    • Agriculture Meets Peak Oil: Soil Association Conference (2/1/07)
    • UK Agriculture, organic farming and relocalisation (9/19/06)
    • Can sustainable farming feed the world? (3/21/06)
    • Global Land Use (6/2/06)
    • How the Energy Crisis Will Help My Diet (7/18/06)
    • Making the Community Better...(a guest post...) (6/2/05)
    • Our oil-laden food chain (6/7/05)
    • A gut reaction to a benefit-cost analysis (7/15/05)
  • TheWatt: Energy news, views, interviews
    • Dust-to-dust energy balance of hybrid cars (4/3/06)
    • The Scoop On Dust-To-Dust Energy Cost (4/13/06)
  • Timbuktu Chronicles (Emeka Okafor, African impact of sustainable technologies)
  • Transition Culture
    • food tag
    • Jonathan Porritt on Peak Oil and Food Production (1/24/07)
  • U.S. Food Policy: US food policy and economics from a public interest perspective (Parke Wilde, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts U)
    • Will biofuels starve the poor? (7/9/07)
  • WorldChanging
    • Extending the Garden (4/25/06)
    • Making backups (seed vault - 1/14/06)
    • Postcards from the Global Food System (Zaid Hassan) #1 (2/26/05) #2 (3/7/05) #3 (3/31/05)
    • Seed banks and the global crop diversity trust (6/9/05)
    • The Food Less Traveled (6/5/06)

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Hydrology / Water Sustainability & Security

AQUASTAT - FAO Land and Water Development Division

Arid Lands Newsletter - Office of Arid Lands Studies - U Arizona

Arsenic crisis information centre

Arsenic Health Effects Research Program - AH Smith, UC Berkeley

BlueFish

California Farm Water Coalition

Earth Policy Institute: Building an economy for the earth (Lester R. Brown)

  • Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (2005, L Brown, Earth Policy Institute Amazon)
    • on-line version - TOC (pdf & html)
      • Stabilizing Water Tables (pdf)
  • Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress & a Civilization in Trouble (2003, LR Brown, Amazon)
    • on-line version - TOC (pdf & html)
      • Emerging Water Shortages (pdf)
      • Raising Water Productivity (pdf)
  • Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (2006, LR Brown, Amazon)
    • o-line version - TOC (pdf & html)
      • Emerging Water Shortages (pdf)
    •

EarthTrends: Environmental Information Portal (water, climate, energy, food, population)

FAO - Land and Water Development Division

  • Agriculture21 Spotlight
  • Crops and Drops: Making the best use of water for agriculture - 2002, index
  • Improved agricultural water control is key to meeting the world's growing food needs (news)
  • texts:
    • Economic valuation of water resources in agriculture From the sectoral to a functional perspective of natural resource management, 2004 pdf
    • Stakeholder-oriented valuation to support water resources management processes: Confronting concepts with local practice, 2006 pdf
  • Water at a Glance

Global Water Partnership

IMWI - International Water Management Institute

National Academies Water Information Center

NASA - earth observatory

NOAA

  • GVI -Global vegetation index

Ogallala Aquifer

Pacific Institute - The World's Water (Peter Gleick)

Resilience Alliance

SalmonRecovery.gov

Stockholm International Water Institute

  • Downloads (extensive)
  • Let It Reign: The New Water Paradigm for Global Food Security, 2005 (pdf)

Sustaining Water: Population and the Future of Renewable Water Supplies

The Connection: Water and Energy Security (article, AR Hoffman - original)

The Water Page

The World's Water

TFDD - Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database (Aaron Wolf, Oregon State U)

UN- United Nations USGS Groundwater Information Pages

US Water News - archives

Water Bucket (British Columbia)

Water Conserve - Water Conservation Portal

Water Partners International

WaterWeb Consortium

Water Well - Watering the future

World Water Council

World Water Forum

Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

  • Bulletin 107: Human Population and Freshwater Resources: U.S. Cases and International Perspectives, 2002 - TOC
journals:

texts:

books:

people:

blogs:

wiki:

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Soils & Soil Systems

Bibliographies:

ACT - African Conservation Tillage Network

Consortium for Agricultural Soils Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases (CASMGS)

EarthTrends - WRI

FAO

fertilizers:

  • EPRIDA: Earth . People . Research . Innovation . Development . Acknowledgement
  • FIPR - Florida Institute of Phosphate Research
    • Phosphate primer
    • Long-range perspectives on inorganic fertilizers in global agriculture (1999, V Smil, pdf)
  • IFA - International Fertilizer Association
  • IFDC - International Fertilizer Development Center - International Center for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development
    • International fertilizer statistics (pdf)
  • PPI-PPIC - Potash & Phosphate Institute
    • Fertilizer contributions to crop yield (html)

blogs:

GlobalSoilMap.net

IFDC - International Fertilizer Development Center - International Center for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development

INVAM (International Culture Collection of (Vesicular) Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi)

ISRIC - World Soil Information

IUSS - International Union of Soil Sciences

Managing Wholes: Creating a future that works (Peter Donovan)

manures:

Mycorrhizal Information Exchange

Nemaplex - UC Davis

Organic-Fertilizer.info

People:

Cambardella, Cynthia A,  Agricultural Land and Watershed Management Research Unit, National Soil Tilth Laboratory (NSTL)

Clapperton, M. Jill (Rhizosphere Ecology, Lethbridge Research Centre)

  • Managing the soil as a habitat for soil biological fertility (2004, pdf)
  • Soil Biology in the Key to Healthy Soil and the Direct-Seeding Advantage (2002, html)
  • Uncovering the real dirt on no-till (pdf, 2nd pdf)
  • Worm Watch

Jones, Christine - Botanist, New South Wales Dept. Natural Resources

  • Grazing management for healthy soils (html)
  • How to build new topsoil (html)
  • Recognise, Relate, Innovate (pdf)

Kirchmann, Holger, Dept of Soil Sciences, Swedish Agricultural University

  • Nutrients in Organic Farming – Are there advantages from the exclusive use of organic manures and untreated minerals? (html, html2, pdf)
  • Possibilities for Improving Nitrogen Use From Organic Materials in Agricultural Cropping Systems (AMBIO, html, pdf)
  • counter - Whey the "Experts" are wrong: Modern organic farming is better (pdf)

Lehmann, Johannes, soil fertility management / soil biogeochemistry

Lotter, Donald W.

  • EarthAware: Environmental Awareness Software, webpage
  • New Tests of Soil Quality: Evaluating the Health of Your Soil's Microbial Community, 1997, html
  • Organic Agriculture (J Sust Agric, 2003, pdf)
  • The performance of organic and conventional cropping systems in an extreme climate year (Amer J Altern Agric 18(2), 2003, pdf)

Lowenfels, Jeff (Alaska Humus)

  • Teaming With Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to Using the Soil Food Web

Retallack, Greg (Professor, paleopedology & palesols, University of Oregon) - research synopsis

Shachar-Hill, Yair (Michigan State U)

SARE - Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education - USDA

  • Publications (index - many on-line)
    • Building Soils for Better Crops, 2nd ed., Fred Magdoff, Harold van Es, 2000 (4.2Mb pdf)

Soil biodiversity:

Invasive Species - Institute of Ecosystem Studies

  • Invasion of North Temperate Forest Soils by Exotic Earthworms (html)

Soil Association (UK)

Soil Foodweb Canada

SOM - Soil Organic Matter

Soil Science Education Home Page (NASA Globe)

Soil Quality - NRCS Soils

Soil Taxonomy

South Dakota No-till Association

terra preta: