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The UK's Number One Geography Portal!!	Years 7 - 9Topic: Farming

The list below provides a variety of farming-related links. Some of these are very specific, others are more general. The specialist links usually use the term AGRICULTURE when talking about farming. One of the best sites to start is the excellent FACE Education Site produced jointly by the National Farmers Union and the Royal Agricultural Society of England.. This site is relatively new and very well written.

The F.A.C.E. Page

This excellent website contains free factsheets, a photo gallery and most importantly, a series of farming case studies - over 10 for the UK plus 3 overseas farms. These are detailed and regularly updated by the farmers themselves and provide good quality material for Keystage 3 case studies and GCSE research/projects. Click on 'farm profiles' in the menu to get to the case studies.

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

the education pages of the United States Department of Agriculture - designed for children and hosted by Stanley Stat and Pie-chart Pam....

Food And Agriculture Organisation [FAO]

a United Nations site with a huge amount of information on a wide range of farming related topics.

Food & Farming Education Service

a University of Oklahoma site which deals with all the breeds of a wide range of farm animals - a useful site for projects/homeworks with lots of written information plus photos and statistics.

International Rice Research Institute [IRRI]

a famous organisation that pioneered the research work which led to the Green Revolutionof the 1960's and 1970's. The organisation is still going strong and now on the WWW. The site literally contains everything you could wish to know about rice and rice growing. An excellent site.

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