Free and Open Access Links: Agriculture

Information about agriculture specific online resources that are Open Access so available to all researchers and agriculture specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.

FAO
The FAO Corporate Document Repository houses FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications, covering topics including agriculture, livestock, fisheries and forestry management, and sustainiable natural resources management . It enables users to easily access the accumulated knowledge and information produced by FAO directly on the Internet. There are separate portals for French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese.

INASP Rural Development Directory
This Directory provides access to a wide range of information on rural development. It contains profiles of more than 450 international, regional and national networks and organisations around the globe, and is particularly concerned to promote South-South information dissemination and interchange. Each entry provides contact details and a brief description of the organisation, highlighting its objectives, activities, subject areas of interest and geographical coverage.

Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA)
PIPRA is a non-profit organization committed to the strategic management of agricultural intellectual property developed by universities and research institutions world-wide, encouraging the broadest commercial and humanitarian applications of agricultural technologies for the development of improved crops. PIPRA offers a wide number of services supportive of the management of agricultural intellectual property, access to ag-biotechnologies, and development of biotechnology research tools and products. PIPRA's publicly available, on-line IP database consolidates information, including licensing availability, of agricultural technologies accessible for research and development.