Global Food Security: Related Links

U.S. Department of Agriculture

World Agricultural Outlook Board. Supply and demand estimates, weather, and climate.

Foreign Agricultural Service. Country and commodity information and more.

• Food aid information. Descriptions of the P.L. 480 program, data for the last 3 years of sales, and updates on current transactions and press releases.

Other U.S. Government

State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Current news on disasters, the agency budget, and policy updates.

• Sub-Saharan Africa. Information on USAID activities in the region, country information, speeches, and press releases.

• Latin America and the Caribbean. Regional and country information, speeches, and data.

• Asia and Near East. Regional and country project information, country overviews, and regional sector overviews.

• Food for Peace. Information on the agency's emergency and nonemergency assistance programs.

Central Intelligence Agency, World Factbook. Information (geographic, economic, and political) on 267 geographic entities in the world.

International Organizations

United Nations, Food and Agricultural Organization.

• FAOSTAT. Data on production, trade, food balance sheets, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest and fishery products, population, agricultural machinery, and food aid shipments.

• Global Information and Early Warning System. Information on global crop outlook, shortages, weather updates, special reports on countries/regions suffering from severe or emergency food situations, and country-by-country information on Sub-Saharan Africa.

World Bank. Country and regional reports and data.

International Monetary Fund. Publications, country information, and press releases.

Other

International Food Policy Research Institute. Research and policy analysis for meeting the food needs of developing countries.

FIVIMS (Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System), World Food Summit.

Michigan State University, web site for the Department of Agricultural Economics' cooperative agreement with USAID's Global Bureau. Links to project objectives, country/regional activities, and publications from 1993 to the present.