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• IFPRI Library Catalog
  Access to more than 11,000 records held by the IFPRI Library.
• IFPRI Journal Holdings
  Search by Journal title.
• IFPRI Publications
  Access to information about IFPRI's research and related documents. Most documents are available for download in PDF.
• CGIAR Library Gateway
  Centralized access to libraries, catalogs and databases held by the CGIAR centers.
• CGVLibrary
  A global link to leading research on food crops, livestock, fisheries, water resources, forestry, plant genetics, and food and nutrition policy.

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• AGbios
  Database of publications on public policy, regulatory, and risk assessment expertise for products of biotechnology
• AgEcon
  Full text library of research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
• AGRICOLA
  National Agricultural Library Online Public Access Catalog of records and Journal Article Citation Index; over 3 million bibliographic citations.
• Agri2000
  Bilingual Agricultural Virtual Library includes Agri2000 (the Agricultural megadata base for the Americas) plus four other international catalogs: AgNIC, Agrícola, AGRIS, and AgriCat, all accessible at one site.
• AGRIS
  Worldwide bibliographic coverage of agricultural science and technology literature. Assembled by AGRIS. Coordinating Center, FAO; over 2.7 million references.
• AGRIS-MHS - Multi-Host Based and Cross-Database Bibliographic Search Engine
  Searches AGRIS, AGRICOLA, and others at the same time.
• AGROVOC
  Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus
• Agricultural Market Access Database (AMAD)
  Agricultural Market Access Database (AMAD) includes a broad set of recent data related to tariffs and trade for 50 countries.
• Analyzing Agriculture
  Maintained by Australian scholar and agricultural analyst, John Chudleigh, directs you to sites that provide useful information on agriculture and the economy.
• AROW
  Agricultural Research Organizations on the Web from ISNAR
  Worldwide directory of organizations and universities working in agricultural research.
• Best Practices
  Database of publications on improving common social, economic, and environmental problems of an urbanizing world
  
  For access, please contact IFPRI Library
• BLDS
  British Library for Development Studies at IDS: Europe's largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries.
• CAB Direct
  Access to the most recent three years of CAB abstracts--information in the applied sciences--at no charge. Developed and hosted by CGNET Services, for IVDN networked Centers.
  For access, please contact IFPRI Library
• CAMBIA Patent Lens
  Intellectual property resource that contains information about more than 5.5 million patents related to plant biotechnology in America, Europe under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
• CARIS
  Current Agricultural Research Information System
• Child Health and Nutrition Research in Africa
  A Database of Research Organisations and Researchers in sub-Saharan Africa
  Searchable database of researchers and research institutions working in the areas of child health and nutrition in Africa.
• CiteSeer.IST
  Scientific literature digital library that can be used to search for documents and for citations by title, author, and subject. Provided by the School of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State and NEC Research Institute.
• Copac
  Copac provides free access to the merged online catalogues of major UK and Irish university research libraries, plus the British Library & the National Library of Scotland.
• COS Funding Opportunities
  Search the most comprehensive source of funding opportunities worldwide.
  For access, please contact IFPRI Library
• Developing Library Network (DELNET)
  Network of libraries for resource sharing.
  
  For access, please contact IFPRI Library
• Development Gateway
  An interactive food security portal for information on development and poverty reduction.
• Digital Library of the Commons
  A gateway to the international literature on the commons, common-pool resources, and common property.
• Earth Trends
  The environmental information portal of the World Resources Institute (WRI)--a comprehensive online database focusing on environmental, social and economic trends that shape our world.
• EconLit
  American Economic Associations' electronic bibliography of world-wide economics literature.
• Econpapers
  Search the world's largest collection of online economics working papers, journal articles, and software.
• ERA (Educational Research Abstracts)
  Access to seven leading international abstracting journals with over 25,000 abstracts updated monthly.
  For access, please contact IFPRI Library
• EARD-Infosys+
  EARD-InfoSys+ is the web-based Information System on European Agricultural Research for Development (ARD). It gathers data on European ARD organizations, funding, projects, training, experts, news and events.
• FAO Commodities and Trade
  Statistics, research, prices, projections, market data on 20+ commodities and maintains constant watch on world market situation and outlook.
• FAO World Census of Agriculture
  Agricultural censuses and surveys for a group of countries together with concepts, definitions, and methodological issues to carry out agricultural censuses.
• FAOSTAT
  FAO multilingual databases containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in agricultural areas.
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• FAPRI
  Commodities and Elasticity databases from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI).
• Find Articles
  This is a search engine, like a mini-google, that searches both free and not-free articles in thousands of journals They say that the journals are "leading academic, industry and general interest publications". Journals include everything from American Journal of Agricultural Economics to Auto Racing Digest and from Journal of Asian and African Studies to Jet.
• Food and Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC)
  Access to technical publications on tropical agriculture, with an emphasis on lowcost technology for small farms, focusing on the Asia Pacific Region
• FORUM
  The Forum on Agricultural Resource Husbandry program of the Rockefeller Foundation--an initiative of a consortium of 10 universities in east and southern Africa.
• Google Scholar
  New service from Google draws on newly developed algorithms to list online academic research relevant to search request.
• HIV/AIDS, STDs and TB
  Information on resources and materials from Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
• IDEAS/RePEc
  Research papers in economics.
• IndiaStat.com
  India-specific socio-economic statistical facts and figures.
  For access, please contact IFPRI Library
• International Financial Statistics
  International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department database contains time series data from 1948, including all series from the IFS Country pages and its World Tables.
• Intute
  Intute hosts a number of subject-specific databases, which are maintained by a network of UK universities and partners.
• ISIHighlycited.com
  Expert gateway to the world's most highly cited researchers.
• JHCCP Publications
  Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
• JOLIS
  World Bank Group Library Network
• KIT Library Catalogue
  Access to 250,000 books, 4,500 current journals, 30,000 articles, 25,000 maps and 800 atlases from the Royal Tropical Institute.
• KIT Portal on Rural Innovation Systems (RIS)
  The Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam (KIT) developed and manages an information portal on Rural Innovation Systems (RIS) which gives access to free, full-text electronic documents on the Rural Innovation Systems (RIS) approach, which is used for both conceptual analysis and as a practical tool. In addition, this information portal links to many other Internet sources related to the field of RIS. (e.g., newsletters, discussion groups, websites, bibliographic databases, and directories).
• MEDLINE
  National Library of Medicine search service to access the 15 million citations and biomedical articles back to the 1950s in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE.
• Microfinancegateway
  The premier source of information for and about the microfinance industry including research and publications.
• NAP (National Academies Press)
  More than 3,000 reports from the National Academies are available online free for the reading.
• NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)
  Economic research working papers
• Netlink
  A database of internet resources for public health from Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
• OECD - International Development Statistics online (IDS/o)
  • Development Assistance Committee online (DAC/o)
    Provides data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to recipients. It includes each recipient's intake of Official Development Assistance (ODA), Official Aid (OA), other official and private funding from members of the DAC, multilateral agencies and other donors.
  • Creditor Reporting System online (CRS/o)
    An information system comprising data on individual aid activities on Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Official Aid (OA).
  • Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank Statistics (Debt/o)
    Brings together data that are currently compiled and published by the contributing international agencies (BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank) on components of countries' external debt and official reserve assets.
    For more information see the Background Summary
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• OECD - SourceOECD Agriculture & Food Database
  The OECD Agricultural Databases provides a unique collection of policy-relevant agricultural statistics, detailed support estimates for both OECD and transition economies and a detailed framework for quantifying the economics of agriculture.
  
  This service includes the following four databases:
  • Agricultural Commodities Outlook Database
  • Agricultural Policies in Emerging and Transition Economies
  • Economic Accounts for Agriculture
  • Producer and Consumer Support Estimates (PSEs/CSEs)
• OECD On-line Information Service
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• OECD Worldwide Statistical Sources
  Statistics portal to OECD databases as well as extracts from other databases classified by topic.
• OCLC First Search
  Online access to 25+ databases, including WorldCat, ArticleFirst, GEOBASE, SocScience Index, AGRICOLA, BioAgIndex.
• OAIster
  An easily searchable broad collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources provided by the research library community. Project of the Digital Library Production Service of the University of Michigan.
• OLISNet
  OLISNet provides access to OECD's full text documents, publications and statistics on economic and social sciences.
  For access, please contact IFPRI Library
• Photoshare
  A database of photographs available for non-profit educational use from Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
• POPIN - Population Information Network of the UN Economic and Social Council on Western Asia
  • Demographic and socio-economic indicators
    Direct access to tables containing demographic and related socio-economic indicators for the countries of Western Asia
  • Demographic, policy and socio-economic data
    Links to databases that provide numerical and textual demographic, policy and socio-economic data from various sources.
• POPLine
  Bibliographic reproductive health database from Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
• PUB SCIENCE
  Scientific and Technical Publishers and Journals
• RePEc/IDEAS
  Large bibliographic database dedicated to providing information about working papers and published research to the economics profession.
• SCI-DEV NET
  Global site for news, views and information on science, technology and the developing world.
• SCIRUS
  Elsevier Science's search engine "spider" locates data, both free and fee-based, in agricultural, biological, environmental, economic, social, and behavioral sciences.
• Scout Report
  The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators.
• Sociological Abstracts (formerly sociofile) is a fundamental bibliographic resource providing access to information in the field of sociology and related disciplines in the social sciences.
  For access, please contact IFPRI Library
• The Sociometro
  The Sociometro is a dataset of Latin American economic indicators to support research on socioeconomic conditions. It offers access to data on social topics: demographic; education; labor market; houseing; and income. The data is from household surveys done in 21 Latin American countries, covering the period, 1990-2004. It is a service of the Research Department of the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB).
• SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
  Disseminates social science research worldwide and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
• Subito
  Library document delivery service for articles and books. Millions of titles available electronically.
  For access, please contact IFPRI Library
• UMI Dissertation Services
  Publishes and archives dissertations and theses; sells copies on demand; and maintains the bibliographic record for over two million doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
• UNCTAD Commodity Price Statistics Online
  For access, please contact IFPRI Library
• UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics On-line
  Comprehensive collection of data relevant for the analysis of world trade, investment and development for over 190 countries and territories and 50 economic or trade groups.
  For access, please contact IFPRI Library
USAID's Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
• USAID's Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) project provides free access to data and analysis on the population, health, and nutrition of women and children for regional and national family planning and health programs in developing countries.
• Web-agri (French)
  Agricultural search engine--searches in over 750,000 agricultural web pages.
• WHOSIS
  WHO Statistical Information System--a guide to health and health related epidemiological and statistical information from the World Health Organization.
• WISARD
  Web-based Information Services for Agricultural Research for Development
• World Bank World Development Indicators
  The premier annual compilation of data about development. Includes approximately 800 indicators organized in six sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.
  For instructions to install the database on your desktop, please contact IFPRI Library
• WorldCat
  Search this database of constantly updated information from hundreds of libraries to locate books, research abstracts and full-text articles. Find out immediately if a book is in the IFPRI Library or in a nearby Library where it can be requested through InterLibrary Loan.
• World Economic and Financial Surveys
• World of Learning