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National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
Looking for the latest in sustainable agriculture and organic farming news, events and funding opportunities? We feature all that, plus in-depth publications on production practices, alternative crop and livestock enterprises, innovative marketing, organic certification, and highlights of local, regional, USDA and other federal sustainable ag activities.

Online Information Service for Non-Chemical Pest Management in the Tropics
Online Information Service for Non-Chemical Pest Management in the Tropics PAN's Overall Aim is to eliminate the use of hazardous pesticides, reduce overall use, risk and dependence of pesticides, and increase support for community-based control over a sustainable produced food supply.

The Rodale Institute 
We know there's more than one way to farm, eat and live sustainably. Many growers consider organic certification imperative to ensure customer confidence. Growers who sell most of their crops directly to the end consumer—via a farm stand, farmers market or Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)—may consider organic certification unnecessary. And what about the other certifications available besides, or in addition to, certified organic? New Farm honors these differences in approach, method and label in this section. Certified organic, naturally-grown, biodynamic, permaculture, farm-worker-friendly, no-till...you can find it all here.

International Organic Inspectors Association
The International Organic Inspectors Association (IOIA) is a non-profit, professional association of organic farm, livestock, and process inspectors dedicated to verification of organic production practices. The mission of IOIA is to address issues and concerns relevant to organic inspectors, to provide quality inspector training and to promote integrity and consistency in the organic certification process.

Organic & Beyond

The Rodale Institute's Organic Transition Course is a 15-hour online program designed to help you understand the National Organic Standards and use them as your framework for making the transition to organic production.

 

It's perfect for farmers who are ready to make the complete transition to certified organic, and for those interested in simply integrating more sustainable methods into their current farming system. Just want to learn more about how certified organic farming works? The course can help there, too.

Gardening Organic
The International Development programme promotes and facilitates organic and ecological agriculture in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Our goal is to contribute to the wider understanding and practice of sustainable agriculture as a means to improving food security and environmental resilience.


The International Society of Organic Agriculture Research (ISOFAR)
The International Society of Organic Agriculture Research (ISOFAR) promotes and supports research in all areas of Organic Agriculture by facilitating global co-operation in research, methodological development, education and knowledge exchange; supporting individual researchers through membership services, publications and events and integrating stakeholders in the research process.

The Principles of Organic Agriculture (IFOAM)
IFOAM's mission is leading, uniting and assisting the organic movement in its full diversity.
Our goal is the worldwide adoption of ecologically, socially and economically sound systems that are based on the principles of Organic Agriculture. eading the organic movements worldwide, IFOAM implements the will of its broad based constituency - from farmers' organizations to multinational certification agencies, ensuring the credibility and longevity of organic agriculture as a means to ecological, economic and social sustainability. Uniting the organic world, IFOAM provides platforms to stakeholders for a wide range of purposes. Through international conferences, committee meetings, and other forums, IFOAM facilitates the ongoing and constructive dialogue about the future and status of organic agriculture. Assisting its membership, IFOAM implements specific projects that facilitate the adoption of organic agriculture, particularly in developing countries. IFOAM also represents the organic agriculture movements at United Nations and other intergovernmental agencies.

FAO Best Practices Web site
FAO's new model is based on a determination to learn from the Organization's experience and will require new mechanisms that allow and provide incentives for staff of different disciplines, working on related themes but in different units or locations, to work together collegially towards the development of best practices and the achievement of shared goals. (FAO, November 2005) In the spirit of FAO's stronger focus on knowledge sharing, this new FAO Best Practices Web site provides a series of summaries that introduce some best practices in FAO's areas of expertise. It also provides links to further resources with supporting technical information.

Grolink Serving the Organic World
Grolink has a long experience in: Development projects, Development of Certification and Standards for organic agriculture, Organic (or ecological) production, Marketing of organic products, Policy development, Training, You can look into our track record if you want to see what we have done up to today. You can also follow the other link to read about the current projects.

Small Farms Library
Journey to Forever Online Library- Library contents-The Soil and Health

Organic Agriculture Information
Directory of Internet Organic Agriculture Resources

Network of magazines on low external input and sustainable agriculture
Welcome / Bienvenido / Salam / Bienvenue / Bem-vindo / ?? Welcome to the LEISA Network 
Success stories from small-scale farmers are often hard to find. They do exist, and there is much to be learnt from them. They can help improve productivity, generate income, and empower farmers. The LEISA Network finds and publishes these stories, and exchanges knowledge and information on sustainable, small-holder farming around the world.

AGROMISA- KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR SMALL SCALE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Agromisa was established in 1934, and is linked to Wageningen University and Research Centre. Our aim is to exchange knowledge information on small-scale sustainable agriculture and related topics. Our target group is the underprivileged population in rural areas. Agromisa's main objective is to strengthen the self-reliance of the target group and to improve their livelihood by sharing experience and knowledge. Agromisa's role in this is a supportive one, which implies that we are not a donor organisation, nor do we finance projects directly. It is Agromisa's belief that the gap between formal (scientific) knowledge and informal (farmers') knowledge should be bridged. To achieve this, Agromisa wants to collaborate with intermediary organisations.

Conservation agriculture
Conservation agriculture (CA) aims to achieve sustainable and profitable agriculture and subsequently aimes at improved livelihoods of farmers through the application of the three CA principles: minimal soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotations. CA holds tremendous potential for all sizes of farms and agro-ecological systems, but its adoption is perhaps most urgently required by smallholder farmers, especially those facing acute labour shortages. It is a way to combine profitable agricultural production with environmental concerns and sustainability and it has been proven to work in a variety of agroecological zones and farming systems. It is been perceived by practitioners as a valid tool for Sustainable Land Management (SLM).

Agroforestry.net - Publications available for free download
Agroforestry Net, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing educational resources about agroforestry, trees, and sustainable stewardship of land and water. We are recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organization. The information provided by Agroforestry Net, Inc. is available to the public at agroforestry.net. Our activities are supported by donations from individuals.

World Agroforestry Center
In 2002 the Centre acquired the brand name the ‘World Agroforestry Centre’. The ‘International Centre for Research in Agroforestry’ remains our legal name and we continue to use the acronym ‘ICRAF’. The new name reflects the fact that the Centre is now recognized as the international leader in agroforestry research and development. Realistically, however, the Centre cannot possibly provide expertise on all conceivable dimensions of agroforestry—nor do we wish to do so. There are advantages to specialization, which is why the Centre engages in strategic alliances with a range of other institutions. Some of these partners are centres of scientific excellence in specific topics of relevance to agroforestry; others specialize in the effective delivery of research results to farmers fields.

Market Gardening, Mini-farming, Mini-ranching 
Through free enterprise and micro-entrepreneurship both urban and rural mini-agriculture applications have been proven to produce substantial income on surprisingly small acreage. There is unlimited opportunity in mini-agriculture whether rural or urban. Mini-agriculture can provide a comfortable income, a quality lifestyle, a great service to the community and it's a great way to raise kids. One woman took a one week course, went to Alaska, prepared the land and sold $20,000 worth of vegetables and then had six months of vacation. A couple in Midland, Texas, grossed $14,000 from one and a half acres.

The World Vegetable Center
AVRDC – the World Vegetable Center is the leading international center for vegetable research and development worldwide. It is a not-for-profit research institute aimed at working towards reducing malnutrition and alleviating poverty in developing countries through improved production and consumption of safe vegetables. Founded in 1971 as the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center with a mandate to enhance vegetable production in the Asian tropics, the World Vegetable Center has taken up a global role in promoting and supporting vegetable research and development in Africa, Asia, and other regions of the world. The Center builds capacity and forms alliances with partners from both the public and private sectors which have complementary expertise. Engagement in regional and supra-regional networks for research and development helps increase outreach and impact. Over the past 30 years scientists at the World Vegetable Center have successfully bred cultivars and designed and developed technologies that help increase yields and incomes in developing countries. Millions of farmers today grow vegetable crops using seed or technologies that have been developed at the Center. Studies document clearly that vegetables are vital for healthier diets and help generate stronger economies which hears relevance especially in developing countries.

Global Crop Pest Identification and Information Services in Integrated Pest
Management (IPM) on the World Wide Web

The Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) and collaborators welcome you to the prototype of the Global Crop Pest Identification and Information Services in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) on the World Wide Web.

Biological Control Information Center
Biological control is, generally, human's use of a specially chosen living organism to control a particular pest. This chosen organism might be a predator, parasite, or disease which will attack the harmful insect. It is a form of manipulating nature to increase a desired effect. A complete Biological Control program may range from choosing a pesticide which will be least harmful to beneficial insects, to raising and releasing one insect to have it attack another, almost like a "living insecticide".

INTEGRATED PLANT PROTECTION CENTER
The Integrated Plant Protection Center (IPPC) was formed in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University (OSU) in 1969, and has been conducting research and outreach in a state, national and international setting ever since.  The IPPC provides a home for the State IPM Coordinator, who works with the USDA CSREES, the federal partner of the Land Grant Universities in the USA, to implement integrated pest management (IPM) practices wherever these are needed. This program of implementation is guided by the National Roadmap for IPM, which has established goals for delivering economically sustainable pest management with lower costs to human health and to the environment in the USA. To help us in this process, the USDA has established four regional IPM Centers, and the IPPC works closely with the Western IPM Center based at University of California, Davis. The IPPC leads and coordinates a number of multi-investigator, multi-state research and outreach programs, but it is only one element of the broader IPM program at OSU. Follow the links on this site to locate the wide array of IPM related activity at OSU and the IPM programs of our state and regional partners. IPPC is also engaged in a number of international programs, including publication of IPMnet NEWS. Please save our homepage as a bookmark or ‘favorite’ to keep abreast of new developments.  This web site was established in June 2006, and the information and services that it provides access to will be expanding in the coming years. We appreciate your patience while this process of development is underway.

Worldwide Portal to Information on Soil Health
The Tropical Soil Cover and Organic Resource Exchange (TropSCORE) Consortium is currently developing the Worldwide Portal to Information on Soil Health in conjunction with Cornell University's Mann Library, the Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC), Cornell's Soil Health Program Work Team, the Northeast Organic Network, Corporacion Artemisa and several other international institutions and programs. The Portal uses software that allows all AgNIC partner sites --including US land-grant universities and the National Agriculture Library-- to function as one comprehensive portal for agriculture-based Internet resources. Members of the TropSCORE Consortium include MOIST/CIIFAD, CIDICCO, CIEPCA and ECHO.

The Permaculture Research Institute

FAO Organic Agriculture Programme

Ecocrop