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The Tropical Soil Cover and Organic Resource Exchange (TropSCORE) Consortium is currently developing the Worldwide Portal to Information on Soil Health in conjunction with Cornell University's Mann Library, the Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC), Cornell's Soil Health Program Work Team, the Northeast Organic Network, Corporacion Artemisa and several other international institutions and programs. The Portal uses software that allows all AgNIC partner sites --including US land-grant universities and the National Agriculture Library-- to function as one comprehensive portal for agriculture-based Internet resources. Members of the TropSCORE Consortium include MOIST/CIIFAD, CIDICCO, CIEPCA and ECHO.
The Worldwide Portal to Information on Soil Health currently offers an extensive database of annotated English and Spanish language resources on the World Wide Web that can be accessed through an XML-based search engine; a subject-specific browsing library; an on-line resource reference service; and classified resource listings for products, services, organizations, databases, and literature. Also available through the Portal are archives of soil health electronic discussion groups and on-line learning modules keyed to discussions occurring on English, Spanish and French electronic discussion groups managed by TropSCORE members.
The Portal's development team has been coordinated since 2001 by the Management of Organic Inputs in the Tropics (MOIST) Group with financial assistance from American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) (with USDA funds)*, the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD), the Cornell Agroforestry Working Group (CAWG), the International Integrated Pest Management (IIPM) Program and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' (CALS) Distance Education Working Group.
*Construction of this website is supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture under Agreement No. 2001-34416-10368 administered by Cornell University and the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed on this website are those of the website development team and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
TropSCORE's
Worldwide Soil Health Information Portal
Send us e-mail: lhf2@cornell.edu
© Copyright 2002 by TropSCORE and Cornell University
Last updated: December 21, 2005
by the Development Team