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Scotland's debate over tests on primates

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Beagle hunter

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Everest trip helps critically ill

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A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has mirrors for eyes

A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has eyes which use mirrors as well as lenses, scientists discover.

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Mosquitoes make sweet love music

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Tech fair offers greener vision

Analysts at the Consumer Electronics Show say green credentials of tech products will become critical to success.

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China alert over bird flu death

Chinese authorities shut down and clean poultry markets in Hebei province, after the first human death in nearly a year.

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Our writers talk back

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Panda bites his third tourist in two years at Beijing zoo

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Body repair 'could be ramped up'

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Earth Watch

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US vows 'huge' marine protection

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First flight of algae-fuelled jet

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'Wolfman' returns

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Holes give edge to new armour

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Mummy of female pharaoh uncovered

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Black holes 'preceded galaxies'

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Venomous mammal caught on camera

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Agricultural and Rural Economics:

Agricultural Issues Center - UC Davis

Provides information on the Center, working papers, and discussion of the research agenda.

http://aic.ucdavis.edu/

Agricultural Market Information Virtual Library

Resource guide to agricultural market information: selected sites organized by commodity, region or on market analysis. Provided by Michigan State University.

http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/market/contents.htm

Graand

Free Classified Ads Portal

www.graand.com

AgriNet - Texas A&M University

Useful as an entry point in obtaining agricultural data for economic analysis and business modelling.

http://agrinet.tamu.edu/

Agricultural and Rural Economics

Graduate student at Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Saga University, Japan. Agricultural economics.

http://www.geocities.com/kuntoro_boga/

Australian Government: Bureau of Rural Sciences

Contributes to BRS research in addressing natural resource management questions. Project areas, reports, publications, and background on the centre's history, resources, and methodologies.

http://www.daff.gov.au/brs/social-sciences

Center for Agricultural Business (CAB)

A research facility for agribusiness that is located at California State University at Fresno. Page includes list of publications, programs, services, and current projects.

http://cati.csufresno.edu/CAB/

China Agricultural Economics Group

University of Queensland research projects and publications of the China Agricultural Economics Group.

http://www.nrsm.uq.edu.au/agecon/

Economics Department at SWFREC

Providing cost, price and market information to Florida farm owners and managers.

http://www.imok.ufl.edu/economics/

Economics of Forest Protection and Management

Features online abstracts and full-text publications, presentations, and download datasets addressing forest economics issues of the Southern US and beyond. Produced by the scientists of this research unit of the USDA Forest Service's Southern Research Station, located in North Carolina USA.

http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/econhome.htm

EDIRC - Agricultural Economics Institutes

Portal for academic departments, research institutes and associations that are focused on agricultural economics topics.

http://edirc.repec.org/agecon.html

Entrepreneurial Skills of Farmers (ESoF)

This project will examine the economic social and cultural factors hindering or stimulating the development of entrepreneurial skills of farmers.

http://www.esofarmers.org/

Evaluating a Rural Enterprise

This article seeks to provide information to assist a farmer in deciding whether a new enterprise is right for him. [PDF]

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/evalrural.pdf

Foreign Agricultural Service - USDA

Offers links to current information on a variety of agricultural issues in multiple countries.

http://www.fas.usda.gov/

International Centre for development oriented Research in Agriculture

ICRA provides professional training in interdisciplinary team research in agriculture.

http://www.icra-edu.org/

Medium Term Outlook for Dairying in the Developing Countries

Explains the impact of the change in feed support policies in more developed countries have had on developing countries' level of dairy production. Includes chart that compares the two "worlds" into total output, per capita supplies and net import quantities.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0413e/T0413E01.htm

Oil World

Provides analysis of world supply, demand and price outlook for 10 oilseeds, 17 oils and fats, and 12 oilmeals.

http://www.oil-world.com/

Regoverning Markets

A research project that is conducted to discover the impact of the growing numbers of national and multinational food processing and retail outlets as it affects small farms in developing countries. Areas of study include East Africa, Southern Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Southeast Asia. Page includes list of objectives and conference schedule.

http://www.regoverningmarkets.org/

Southern Rural Development Center

Land grant research and education for the southern U.S. states and Puerto Rico.

http://srdc.msstate.edu/

USDA: Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System

Gives projections of expected market growth based on current trends of economic development in the less developed countries. Charts compares forecast exports to imports from the years and other financial indicators. Covers details on crops and livestock, as well as inherent assumptions in compiling the data.

http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/