Libraryof Congress Country Studies Areas Handbook Program: It is a usefulresource for selected country information. Each country link provides informationon political, economic, social and security institutions.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: International Development Co-operation :Mega directory of links to resources and sites related to issues in international development broadly, including topics as aid, trade, economy, research,and development policy, among others. Includes links to development banks,trade organizations.

VirtualLibrary on International Development: It is a comprehensive resource base and jumping-off point. It has information on particular countriesorganized by topics. It includes a clickable map to resources on specificregions or countries, and a general international relations links.
 

AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES

International Service for National Agricultural Research: Worldwide directory of organizationsand universities working on agricultural research organized by regionsand countries.

Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations (FAO): It is the largest autonomous agency within the United Nations system with 180 member nations. Amongits objectives is the alleviation of poverty and hunger through the promotion of agricultural development, improvement of nutrition and security. Itprovides information, policy and planning device to governments and actsas an international forum for debate on food and agriculture issues. FAOSTATAgriculture Statistics Database: FAO database contains time-series data (starting 1961) for over 210 countries and 1500 items on the production and trade of primary and derived crops and livestock products; agricultural machinery; fertiliser, pesticides and
insecticides (trade only); land use and population.

Agriculture@: Informationfrom Canada, The United States, England, South America, and Eastern Europe.

TheRobinson Rojas Archive: The site is reproduced from United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. It provides statistics, production indices, trade indices and information by region.

e-markets : Links to agricultural economic data, market analysis, working papers, search engine.
 

POLITICAL RESOURCES

ForeignPolicy in focus briefs/ Latin America and Caribean

Americangovernments on the www

LatinAmerica Political Institutions Section : This provides information about section members.

ForeignAffairs: Site from the University of Virginia. It has links to US government,NGOs, IGOs, international law, human rights, media…

PoliticalResources on the web
 

ECONOMIC RESOURCES

Mercosur : Organizational information, membership, treaties, agenda, and relatedlinks. (texts in spanish)

StatisticalSources (Cornell)

Association ofAmerican Chambers of Commerce in Latin America : Trade, investment, and business between the United States and Latin America.

Institutefor European-Latin America relations (IRELA):Links to other organizations,informations on trade news, statistics on trade, investments, cooperation,development and external debt.

Mercosureconomic research network
 
World Business Council for Sustainable Development: Regional Network News

SOCIAL RESOURCES

SouthAmerica Cases :Cases that focus on trade as a primary agent of globalization and how it relates to the other aspects such as environment (especially), culture, human rights, labor rights.
 

FINANCIAL RESOURCES

e-campo.com : News and market information (english and spanish)