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Advances in New Crops
Proceedings of the First National Symposium of the Center for new crops and plant products of the Purdue University which focuses on research, development, and economics.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-toc.html
Agronomy Program
Plans and conducts applied research and extension programs on forages and sugar cane for the mineral (sandy) and adjacent (organic) soils of Florida's cattle and sugar cane production areas at the Southwest Florida Research and Education Center of the University of Florida.
http://www.imok.ufl.edu/agro/
Alternative Field Crops Manual
Detailed information on the production of a number of agronomic crops adapted to the upper Midwestern U.S., from adzuki bean to wild rice.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/index.html
Australian New Crops Project
crop developments, from the University of Queensland.
http://www.newcrops.uq.edu.au/
Badgersett Research Corporation
Research and development of hazelnuts and chestnuts for use as staple crops, sale of seedlings and nuts. Minnesota.
http://www.badgersett.com/
Catholic Educator's Resource Center: Population
Food is more abundant and cheaper today than ever before in history due to a dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s.
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/population/pc0025.html
Center for New Crops and Plant Products
Extensive collection of information from Purdue University on crop diversification.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/
CropReference
Sources of information from Purdue University on promising new crops for food, timber, shade, soil improvement.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/CropReference/crop_reference.html
Edible Landscape Nursery Catalog
Information about plants (many obscure) that are available from ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization, a Christian non-profit group that is battling world hunger).
http://www.echonet.org/eln&herbs/nurserycatalog.htm