The World Agroforestry Center : formerly known as ICRAF, the International Center for Research in Agroforestry, is an international not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to help mitigate tropical deforestation, land depletion and rural poverty through improved agroforestry systems. The World Agroforestry Center places importance on the interdependence between research and development. The headquarters is in Nairobi, Kenya but staff are located in 23 countries. Useful resources of World Agroforestry Center are:

1. The Tree seed suppliers directory provides information on suppliers of seed and microsymbionts (mycorrhizas) of relevance to agroforestry. The database includes information about the quality of the seeds and the quantity obtainable from each supplier. It is searchable by species (or any part of the taxa) or supplier. There is an opportunity for suppliers to update or add information. The zipped database can be downloaded from the site in Microsoft Access for use offline.

2. The Agroforestree Database provides information on the management, use and ecology of a wide range of tree species that can be used in agroforestry systems. Tree species are searchable by botanical names, common names, or a specific topic, such as propagation methods, pests and diseases, or geographical distribution.

3. The Botanic nomenclature database is a compilation of the taxonomic status of over 8000 woody and herbaceous taxa found in agroforestry systems. The taxonomic information (taxonomic placement, synonyms and common names) is linked to species information in the Agroforestree database and seed supply information in the Tree seed suppliers directory.

The Food and Agriculture Organization : FAO, was founded in 1945 and is the largest autonomous agency within the United Nations. The FAO works to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting sustainable agricultural development, improved nutrition and food security. This site provides information on the FAO, it's organisation, history, aims and activities. It includes extensive information on news, conferences and related events, contains many reports, legal documents, guides, images, statistics and maps, and provides free access to many different databases. Useful resources are:

1. FAO Forestry Department : promotes national and international action for the effective conservation, sustainable management and efficient utilization of forest and related resources as an integral element of land use systems. It maintains an extremely rich Internet site containing a huge amount of freely available highly detailed information and an extensive set of links to globally distributed forest-related organizations.

2. AGRIS : AGRIS is the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology. It was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1974, to facilitate information exchange and to bring together world literature dealing with all aspects of agriculture. AGRIS is a cooperative system in which participating countries input references to the literature produced within their boundaries and, in return, draw on the information provided by the other participants. To date, 240 national, international and intergovernmental centres participate.

3. Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) : is an initiative to provide free or low-cost access to 744 major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences to public institutions in developing countries. The goal of AGORA is to increase the quality and effectiveness of agricultural research, education and training in low-income countries, and in turn, to improve food security. Researchers, policy-makers, educators, students, technical workers and extension specialists will have access to high-quality, relevant and timely agricultural information via the Internet. Founder publishers include Blackwell Publishing, CABI Publishing, Elsevier, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Springer-Verlag, and John Wiley & Sons. Potential users will be required to register with FAO, and access to AGORA will be password controlled. The AGORA Publisher Partners are opening access free to relevant institutions in many developing countries. (The countries, generally with an annual GNI per capita per annum of US$1000 or less at 31 December 2000, have been selected by the Publisher Partners and will be amended by them from time to time. A Power Point presentation of AGORA was demonstrated by the NAWG participant and distributed to everyone by email after the workshop.

4. Trees outside Forests group of FAO : Trees outside forests include all trees found on non-forest and non-wooded lands, i.e. trees on agricultural lands, in urban and settlement areas, along roads, in home gardens, in hedgerows, scattered in the landscape and on pasture and rangelands. Trees outside forests fulfil diverse environmental, social, cultural and economic roles and various benefits could be obtained thought their wider integration in all land-use systems (rural and urban). Resources and projects associated with this group are available on the website.

CAB International : is an international not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is the "generation, dissemination and use of knowledge in the applied biosciences to enhance development, human welfare and the environment". Through its Bioscience and Publishing divisions and extensive network of overseas centres, it provides information, consultancy and project management services in a wide range of agricultural and related areas. The Web site provides details of its research and project activities, publications and databases. Useful resources are:

1. CAB Abstracts: CAB ABSTRACTS is a bibliographic database compiled by CAB International. Covering research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health, and the management and conservation of natural resources and is updated quarterly. CAB ABSTRACTS includes abstracts for over 95% of the 150,000 records that are selected each year from over 10,000 serials, books, technical reports, conference proceedings, bibliographies, translated journals and published theses. It is a subscription-only service, but arrangements exist for sponsored subscriptions in partnership with other organisations serving Developing Country needs.

2. CABI Compendia : CAB International has developed a range of multimedia Compendia. The Compendium concept involves development of encyclopaedic, multimedia tools that bring together a wide range of different types of science-based information. Each Compendium comprises information sourced from experts, edited and compiled by an independent scientific organization, kept up-to-date routinely and resourced by a diverse international Development Consortium.

3. CABI Bioscience :
Farmer Solutions in Crop Health Futures
Since the late 1980's, a new, more farmer focused approach has begun to gain acceptance as an effective means of promoting sustainable methods of production at farm level. Farmers are trained (Farmer Participatory Training - FPT) in a so-called 'Farmer Field School', during which farmers learn how to make and record detailed observations, how to conduct simple experiments and interpret the results of findings;

Global Plant Health Clinic
The CABI Bioscience Global Plant Clinic provides a comprehensive diagnostic and advisory service for disease problems on all tropical crops. The Service is unique in its global operation and the range of plant diseases it handles. CABI Bioscience has been identifying and advising on plant diseases for over 90 years.

The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan : INBAR, is an international organization established by treaty in November 1997, dedicated to improving the social, economic, and environmental benefits of bamboo and rattan. INBAR connects a global network of partners from the government, private, and not-for-profit sectors in over 50 countries to define and implement a global agenda for sustainable development through bamboo and rattan.

The Center for International Forestry Research : CIFOR's mission is to contribute to the sustained well-being of people in developing countries, particularly in the tropics, through collaborative strategic and applied research and related activities in forest systems and forestry, and by promoting the transfer of appropriate new technologies and the adoption of new methods of social organization, for national development.

The International Union of Forest Research Organisations : IUFRO is a non-profit, non-governmental international network of forest scientists. Its objectives are to promote international cooperation in forestry and forest products research. IUFRO's activities are organized primarily through its 277 specialized Units in 8 technical Divisions. IUFRO's online services include a searchable reference library of mainly IUFRO publications, the SilvaTerm terminological database, and a searchable calendar of IUFRO meetings and conferences.

AgriFor is a gateway to evaluated Internet resources in agriculture, food and forestry, including agroforestry. It is aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. AgriFor is one of the gateways within the BIOME service (http://biome.ac.uk). Over 2,000 information resources are listed with descriptions of the resource. New additions can be searched in a What's New section.

The USDA Forest Service is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture. It was established in 1905 to manage public lands in national forests and grasslands. The Forest Service has a national headquarters in Washington, D.C. and 9 regions to manage the 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands. The website contains links to full-text documents and other reports published by the Forest Service, some of which is of international importance.

The Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) : CTFS was created within the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute as an umbrella organization to aid the efforts to establish and standardize Forest Dynamics Plots. CTFS represents a voluntary consortium of forestry agencies, universities, research institutes and non- governmental organizations around the world, each managing or involved in one or more Forest Dynamics Plot programme.

The Association for Temperate Agroforestry (AFTA) is a private, nonprofit organization formed in 1991. The mission of AFTA is to promote the wider adoption of agroforestry by landowners in temperate regions of North America. Agroforestry practices combine trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock to increase and diversify farm and forest production while conserving natural resources.

The UN/ECE Timber Committee is a principal subsidiary body of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe based in Geneva (http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/). It constitutes a forum for cooperation and consultation between member countries on forestry, forest industry and forest product matters. Information is not confined to Europe.

The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) is based in Yokohama. Its mission is to discuss and exchange information and to develop policies on all aspects of the world tropical timber economy, with great emphasis placed on sustainable forest management practices

The World Forestry Center is a membership-funded NGO whose mission is to promote the establishment, protection, and sustainable management of forests and related resources globally through education, research, and demonstration. The Center runs the World Forest Institute (WFI), a museum and auditorium, and two demonstration forests. Their website site is aimed at the general public and schools., and is divided into eight sections.

Agroforestry Net, Inc. Agroforestry.net is sponsored and maintained by Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR), a private educational and research organization based in Holualoa, Hawaii. It provides information about Agroforestry.net, its current projects such as the traditional tree initiative, access to publications such as technical bulletins and 'how to' guides (in PDF, requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader), full-text access to back issues of the free email journal "The Overstory", and links to related Web sites.

Global Forestry Information Service (GFIS) is an internet gateway that provides access to various types of information resources through partnerships with information providers. GFIS search facilities (in the style of commonly used Internet search facilities), allows the user to locate forest related information through a single entry point based on the different search options. CABI has contributed to this initiative since the inception, providing personnel for the Steering Committee and expert advice on Metadata standards, Thesauri/controlled vocabularies, database construction and maintenance, marketing, and user-needs studies.