FAO Subject Guide

Subject Guide: FAO Publications

Introduction

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is an agency of the United Nations founded in 1945. Its predecessor was the International Institute of Agriculture which was an agency of the League of Nations.

FAO produces several kinds of agency publications, which FAO groups as follows : publications, main documents, working papers, field documents, informational material, serials, and statistical yearbooks.

FAO also distributes agricultural publications produced by countries and international organizations.

FAO Publications at UF

FAO STATISTICS is the FAO statistics database portal covering production, trade, food balance sheets, food aid, fertilizers, pesticides, land use, irrigation, forest products, fisheries and agricultural machinery. It is available online from UF computers and as a CD-ROM at the Marston Science Library reference (HD9000.4.F36).

The UF Libraries Government Documents Department (MSL) is a depository for United Nations publications; however, Marston Science Library (MSL) contains the agriculture collections. FAO publications are therefore found at both the Government Documents and Science collections.

FAO publications indexed by AGRIS International / AGRINDEX and that are owned by the UF Libraries should be listed in the UF Library Catalog as individual serials or books (use a title search to find the publication) (an author search using a=FAO can also be used).
FAO publications indexed by the FAO Current Bibliography Index may also be found this way.
FAO publications indexed by the FAO Cumulative Index (covering 1976-1989 documents distributed by FAO for its member countries) are located at the MSL Government Documents area in the microform cabinets. The microfiche set of publications are arranged by the FAO accession numbers used in this index. The microform index is located on top of the microform cabinets holding the FAO microfiche.

Indexes to FAO Publications

FAO Current Bibliography. FAO annual print index to its own publications, as well as to the publications it distributes. MSL has this index (covering 1967-1995) in the government documents section on top of the microform cabinets. For information prior to 1967 (covering 1945-1966) refer to the introduction of the 1967 volume of the Current Bibliography. For information after 1995 use the FAO WAICENT information finder.

FAO Cumulative Index. FAO microform index that cumulates the FAO Current Bibliography into the following five year groupings. MSL has this index in the government documents section on top of the microform cabinets. PLEASE NOTE: FAO produced publications may be in Library West or in the MSL book collection. FAO distributed publications (for 1976-1989) should be on microfiche in the MSL government documents cabinets.

1976-79 / by author, geographic area, subject
1980-85 / by author, geographic area, subject
1986-89 / by author, geographic area, subject
1980-1994 / by author, geographic area, subject, bibliographic #, project #

AGRIS International / AGRINDEX. This is an FAO published agricultural index covering FAO and other international serials, agricultural journals, international countries and organizations technical reports, books, and dissertations (1975 to the present). It is available in print (MSL Periodicals, Z5073.A485).

CAB This is an agricultural index published by the (British) Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux. It covers the world's agricultural literature, including some FAO produced publications and FAO distributed publications. It is available through the Libraries Database Locator.

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