Medha Devare Knowledge Management Specialist CIMMYT South Asia Regional Office Kathmandu, Nepal

Literature sources AGORA: Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture TEEAL: The Essential Electronic Agriculture Library Google Scholar … Also check out the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agriculture Library (USDA NAL)

Literature sources – AGORA (FAO)

Literature sources – AGORA Created and maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN Free access upon registration for Band I countries (GDP < $1250) Registration is NOT by individual; by INSTITUTION $1000 per year for Band II countries ($1250 $3500) To see which institutions in your country are registered: Help (in left navigation)>> FAQs >> Registering

AGORA without login Click on “journals”

Click on subject category = “agriculture”

Click on journal = “Agricultural Systems”

Search for: (conservation agriculture) AND residue AND Africa

AGORA with login: Access to full-text (“pdf”) e.g. search ALL journals via advanced search Click for full-text

Literature sources - AGORA NOTE!!!!! Few publishers provide full-text access unless logged in E.g., Elsevier provides only abstract; Springer provides full-text Changes to the website may occur Technical difficulties occasionally arise If your password doesn’t work the first time, don’t attempt to log in more than 3 times in a row Any ongoing trouble with AGORA, (describe problem and include print screen)

Literature sources - TEEAL TEEAL is excellent for Band 1 or 2 poor- bandwidth areas in countries

TEEAL demo wheat AND conservation agriculture

Literature sources – Google scholar

16,900 hits, BUT most not relevant, and few available Using “AND” between terms drops hits to 657

Data sources FAOstat: Production, trade, price data for agriculture, forestry, fishery etc. products NOAA climate services: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration IWMI World Water and Climate Atlas IRRI-CIMMYT Cereal Knowledge Bank (CKB) Country agricultural statistics web sites

Data sources – FAOstat

View commodities by country or countries by commodity Select country, year, sort by value or quantity

e.g., the top 20 agricultural commodities for India in 2008

Click on “Production”, then “Crops” for crop production info

Select country, year, item, and element Click “show data”

Scroll to bottom of page for information

Choose multiple items by depressing ctrl key Download data to desired format (e.g. Excel sheet) by choosing format and clicking “download”

Click on “Trade” for top imports, exports by country or countries by commodity

“Trade” >> “TradeSTAT” >> “Detailed Trade Flows” to see trade flows of a commodity to or from a country

Choose country, commodity, element, and year to see trade flows

Try Food Security, Prices, Resources, Fisheries…!

Data sources – NOAA climate services From OR

At click on “Data and Services” >> “Past and Present Climate”

Click on “Global” >> “Climate Phenomena” >> “Monsoons” >> “Climate Prediction Center Global Monsoons”

Click on “Asian-Australian Monsoons”

Click on “Asian-Australian Monsoons” >> “Precipitation”

Compare with “African Monsoons” >> “Precipitation”

Data sources – IWMI World Water and Climate Atlas Click to access online climate service model

One-time free registration required for access

Add site name (Embu) and lat-long info; choose climate variables desired; click submit

Data = monthly averages for period

Data sources – Cereal Knowledge Bank (CKB)

Click on “Wheat” to browse wheat section of CKB Click on flag to see content for any country Explore wheat content (left) or click on WheatDoctor for pest/disease info

Click on “List” for pest/disease info sheets or “Identification key” to identify pest or disease WheatDoctor >> “Pests & diseases”

Take a look at links under “Extension”

Country agricultural statistics – Nepal

Country agricultural statistics – Bangladesh

Country agricultural statistics – India

Country agricultural statistics – Pakistan

Crediting sources, citation, OR… how not to plagiarize! What is plagiarism?? - Stealing someone else’s work and not citing (intentional or not) - An act of fraud Plagiarism involves: - turning in someone else’s work as your own - copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit - failing to put a quotation in quotation marks - giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation - changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit - copying so many words or ideas from a source that it forms the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not Material from Turnitin.com and Research Resources; modified by M. Devare

Crediting sources, citation, plagiarism… Changing the words of an original source is not sufficient to prevent plagiarism!! If you retain the essential idea of an original source, and have not cited it, then no matter how drastically you may have altered its context or presentation, you have still plagiarized Material from Turnitin.com and Research Resources; modified by M. Devare

Crediting sources, citation, plagiarism… Forms of plagiarism: Sources not cited “The Ghost Writer”: Use of another’s work, word-for-word, as your own “The Photocopy”: Copying significant portions of text straight from a single source, without alteration “The Potluck Paper”: Copying from several sources, tweaking sentences to fit them together but retaining most of the original phrasing “The Poor Disguise”: Retaining the essential content of the source, but altering paper slightly by changing key words/phrases “The Labor of Laziness”: Paraphrasing from other sources and making it fit together, instead of spending effort on original work “The Self-Stealer”: “Borrowing” generously from your previous work, violating the expectation of originality by most academic institutions Material from Turnitin.com and Research Resources; modified by M. Devare

Crediting sources, citation, plagiarism… Forms of plagiarism: Sources cited “The Forgotten Footnote”: Mentioning an author’s name, but neglecting to include specific information on the location of the material referenced “The Misinformer”: Providing inaccurate information regarding sources, making them impossible to find “The Too-Perfect Paraphrase”: Properly citing a source, but neglecting to put in quotation marks text that has been copied word-for-word, or close to it “The Resourceful Citer”: Properly citing all sources, paraphrasing and using quotations appropriately, but including almost no original work “The Perfect Crime”: Properly quoting and citing sources in some places, but paraphrasing other arguments from those sources without citation Material from Turnitin.com and Research Resources; modified by M. Devare

Citation What is a citation? A citation is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source It also gives readers the information necessary to find that source again, including: information about the author the title of the work the name and location of the company that published your copy of the source the date your copy was published the page numbers of the material you are borrowing Material from Turnitin.com and Research Resources; modified by M. Devare

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