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- FAOSTAT An “on-line and multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Production, Trade, Food Balance Sheets, Food Aid Shipments, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Forest Products, Fishery Products, Population, Agricultural Machinery.” Available in English, French and Spanish. Fully searchable with lots of free reports.
- Global Information and Early Warning System Includes reports such as Food Outlook and Foodcrops and Shortages. Note their online databases on Africa.
AGRICOLA This bibliographic database, maintained by the National Agricultural Library at the US Department of Agriculture, allows for sophisticated searches of online public access catalogs and the journal article citation index.
American Society for Nutritional Sciences
Arbor Nutrition Guide A comprehensive compilation of nutrition databases. Click here to search the database.
Arizona Health Sciences Library Nutrition Guide
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) Part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts University "...established to effect change in the international community dealing with famine, emergency response, and refugees. It was created out of concern for failed emergency and relief efforts in times of famine and complex emergencies." This site contains access to full-text publications.
Food and Agricultural Organization
Food and Drug Law Institute "...a non-profit institute dedicated to advancing the public health by providing a neutral forum for critical examination of the laws, regulations, and policies related to drugs, medical devices, other health care technologies, and foods."
Food Safety Research Information Office "The food safety research database is an ongoing effort providing users with information on research projects through the cooperation of government agencies and other institutions."
FoodSafety Gateway to Government Food Safety Information.
Forced Migration Online Includes a digital library of of full-text documents and unpublished literature selected from the library of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford and Tufts University Fletcher School and Feinstein Famine Center. They include both recent and historical grey (unpublished) literature and research materials.
Hunger Web Housed at Tufts University, this truly comprehensive site offers Research (Institutions, research results, and major hunger related data sources), Field Work (NGOs, UN Agencies, situation updates, and reference material), Advocacy and Policy (Organizations and materials, upcoming legislation) and Education and Training (Training materials for hunger education at all levels).
Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) A self-proclaimed "progressive think tank," Food First works to "highlight root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right." This site offers project updates, and a links page to quality sites related to hunger.
Institute of Food Science and Technology
Institute of Food Technologists
International Food Information Council
International Food Policy Research Institute
International Union of Nutritional Sciences The Union promotes international cooperation in the scientific study of nutrition and its application. The site promotes good contact information to affiliated organizations.
Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute
Karolinska Institute's Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
Nutrition and Food Sciences "An Internet resource from CABI Publishing. Nutrition and Food Sciences (formerly Nutritiongate) gives subscribers unique access to the nutrition, food science and food technology subset of CAB Abstracts, currently totaling more than half a million records"
Second Harvest A U.S.-based, non-profit organization that distributes food to various shelters and food banks.
Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
WHO International Digest of Health Legislation (IDHL) This electronic database replaces the printed version of the IDHL, produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1948 to 1999. Search for the text of legislation via country, subject, volume, issue, or keyword. Results produce a summary of the legislation in English or a title, sometimes with a link to the full text.
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Also available through Ginn Library's Electronic Journals page.
- British Journal of Nutrition Also available through Ginn Library's Electronic Journals page.
- Journal of Nutrition Also available through Ginn Library's Electronic Journals page.
- Journal of the American Dietetic Association Also available through Ginn Library's Electronic Journals page.
- Nutrition Action Healthletter Also available through Ginn Library's Electronic Journals page.
- Nutrition Notes
- Nutrition Research Reviews
- Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
- Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter Also available through Ginn Library's Electronic Journals page.
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