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zusammengestellt vom Seminar "Datenautobahn und weltweite Vernetzung"
10.-12. Oktober 1997 beim Arbeitnehmerzentrum Königswinter

Index:

• Agrarpolitik
• Ernährung
• Weiterführende Links
• - Akteure
• - Biotechnologie
• - Entwicklungspolitik
• - International
• - Welthandel
• - Weiteres

FAO (W3)

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.
FAO's activities comprise four main areas:

• Putting information within reach.
• Sharing policy expertise.
• Providing a meeting place for nations.
• Bringing knowledge to the field.

Specialized Country Profiles and Information Systems

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FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System
The FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System presents the Organization's vast archive of knowledge on agriculture and food security within a single Web-based portal, with groupings by country and thematic area.

The system brings together documents, statistical data, project details and maps from FAO's existing specialized country profiles which are listed below, as well as information from the Organization's Web pages and systems and those of its partners.

General Information | Sustainable Development | Economic situation | Agriculture sector | Forestry sector | Fishery sector | Technical Cooperation | Maps: . Geographic country map . Main roads, Rivers and Railroads

• Links to other FAO Country Information Systems and Country Profiles
• Aquastat Country Profiles: The AQUASTAT country profiles describe the state of water resources and agricultural water use in the respective country. Special attention is given to the water resource, irrigation, and drainage sub-sectors.
• Biotechnology Country Profiles: The objective of the profiles is to provide a platform on which developing country biotechnology-related policies, regulations and activities can be readily accessed, directing the user to key, updated sources of information.
• BIODEC Biotechnologies in Developing Countries: FAO-BioDeC is a database meant to gather, store, organize and disseminate, updated baseline information on the state-of-the-art of crop biotechnology products and techniques, which are in use, or in the pipeline in developing countries. The data base includes about 2000 entries from 70 developing countries, including countries with economies in transition.
• Country Pasture/Forage Resource Profiles: The Country Pasture/Forage Resource Profile provides a broad overview of relevant general, topographical, climatic and agro-ecological information with focus on livestock production systems and the pasture/forage resources. It also provides information concerning key institutions and personnel and their current research interests, as well as selected references.
• FAO Projects in the country: From the Field Programme Management Information System (FPMIS). The content is coordinated by the Technical Cooperation Department of FAO.
• FAO Terminology - Names of Countries: In order to standardize and harmonize the vast quantity of terms used in FAO documents and publications, the Organization developed the terminology database FAOTERM. The Corporate NAMES OF COUNTRIES database also aims at facilitating the consultation and harmonization of country names throughout the Organization. Downloading options are available to enable the creation of customized country lists and databases.
• Fisheries Country Profiles: FAO's Fisheries Department prepares and publishes Fishery Country Profiles (FCP). Each FCP summarizes the Department's assessment of activities and trends in fisheries and aquaculture for the country concerned.
• Forestry Country Profiles: The forestry country profiles provide detailed information on forests and the forest sector: forest cover (types, extent and change), forest management, policies, products and trade, and more - in all some 30 pages for each country in the world.
• FAO-GeoNetwork: FAO-GeoNetwork is a web based Geographic Data and Information Management System. It enables easy access to local and distributed geospatial information catalogues and makes available data, graphics, documents for immediate download. FAO-GeoNetwork holds approximately 5000 standardized metadata records for digital and paper maps, most of them at the global, continent and national level.
• Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS): The System aims to provide policy-makers and policy-analysts with the most up-to-date information available on all aspects of food supply and demand, warning of imminent food crises, so that timely interventions can be planned.
• Information on Fisheries Management in the Country
• International Portal on Food Safety, Animal & Plant Health (IPFSAPH): IPFSAPH facilitates trade in food and agriculture by providing a single access point to authorized official international and national information across the sectors of food safety, animal and plant health. It has been developed by FAO in association with the organizations responsible for international standard setting in sanitary and phytosanitary matters.
• Livestock Sector Briefs: The purpose of the Livestock Sector Briefs is to provide a concise overview of livestock production in the selected countries through tables, maps and graphs.
• Nutrition Country Profiles: The Nutrition Country Profiles (NCP) provide concise analytical summaries describing the food and nutrition situation in individual countries.
• Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean - Information by country
• Water and Food Security Country Profiles: The Water and Food Security Country Profiles provide focalized information on the state of water resources and food security globally in a country-specific format.

Reports and Statistical Data

• - Compendium of Food and Agriculture Indicators 2005
• - Directory of National Agricultural Research Institutions
• - EXPORTS - Commodities by Country
• - FAO Statistical Country profile 2004
• - Food Security Statistics
• - IMPORTS - Commodities by Country
• - Major Food and Agricultural Commodities and Producers
• - Millennium Development Goals - Progress on hunger reduction
• - Review of water resource statistics by country

Küster, Hansjörg
Am Anfang war das Korn
Eine andere Geschichte der Menschheit

2013. 298 S.: mit 60 Abbildungen, davon 53 in Farbe und 7 Karten im Text. Gebunden
ISBN 978-3-406-65217-2
Erschienen: 16.09.2013

Die Geschichte der Menschheit lässt sich als eine Geschichte der Entdeckungen, der Eroberungen oder der Aufklärung erzählen. Hansjörg Küster lehrt uns in diesem bedeutenden Buch einen anderen Blick: Der Mensch ist, was er sät und erntet. Kultivierung ist der Akt der Menschwerdung schlechthin. Um Kulturpflanzen anzubauen, wurden Menschen sesshaft; sie wurden Bauern, die sich die Erde untertan machten, wie es in der Bibel heißt.

Landwirtschaft und Kulturpflanzenanbau entwickelten sich an mehreren Orten der Erde etwa zur gleichen Zeit, aber unabhängig voneinander: in Vorderasien, in Südostasien, an verschiedenen Orten in Afrika, in Mittel- und Südamerika. Um den Anbau von Korn, Hülsenfrüchtlern und Ölpflanzen zu ermöglichen, musste die Umwelt teilweise stark verändert werden. An den großen Strömen des Orients brauchte man eine künstliche Bewässerung. Sie funktionierte nur, wenn eine weit entwickelte öffentliche Verwaltung vorhanden war. Man schuf staatliche Strukturen und die Schrift. Kulturpflanzen wie Weizen und Roggen, Erbse und Linse, Mais und Kartoffel sowie die vielen Gewürze sind aber auch Vorboten der Globalisierung. Schon vor Jahrtausenden wurden Kulturpflanzen und die Techniken ihres Anbaus zwischen den Zentren der kulturellen Entwicklung ausgetauscht. Weizen aus dem Orient gelangte nach China, von dort aber kam die Technik, Bäume zu veredeln, bereits im Altertum nach Europa.