bEcon- Economics literature about the impacts of genetically engineered crops in developing economies

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has recently compiled a web-base bibliography of peer-reviewed applied economics literature to assess the impact of genetically engineered (GE) crops in developing economies. All 190 articles currently in this database have been organized under four major themes that address the different areas of impact:  advantages to farmers, consumer [...]

Food and Nutrition Bulletin launches new website

The Food and Nutrition Bulletin, a quarterly publication of the International Nutrition Foundation for the United Nations University, recently launched its new website, which is available at http://foodandnutritionbulletin.org/. The new site contains archives for all 28 years of the publication’s existence and is searchable online.
For a limited time, the site is providing full-text open access [...]

Free access to GAIA archives at IngentaConnect

The electronic archive of our journal “GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society” has recently been completed and now comprises all 73 issues published since 1992. To celebrate this, we are offering free access to GAIA’s archive at IngentaConnect until April 30, 2008.
Access GAIA’s archive at www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oekom/gaia (sign in with user name “GAIA2008″ and [...]

Introducing CiteseerX

A colleague at Wageningen University recently announced that a new version of Citeseer, CiteseerX, has been launched and is open to public use.
CiteSeer was first introduced in 1997 as a scientific literature digital library and search engine, and has grown to include data on more than 750,000 research publications. According to Wouter Gerritsma, the [...]

FAOSTAT core data set temporarily unavailable

As those of you who’ve recently tried to retrieve data from FAOSTAT already know, the core data is temporarily inaccessible, even after logging in with IFPRI’s special username and password (normally not required to access this data in the first place). In the upper righthand corner of the site appears the following [...]