• World Agricultural Outlook Board. Supply and demand estimates, weather and climate
• Foreign Agricultural Service. Country and commodity information
  
  attaché reports

Other U.S. government

• Commerce Department

  International Trade Administration. Reports and publications

  Census Bureau. Trade data

• International Trade Commission. Reports and publications
• United States Trade Representative
      National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers
      Trade Policy Agenda & Annual Report on the Trade Agreements Program
  
• Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook 
  

• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
  

FAOSTAT. Data on production, trade, food balance sheets, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest and fishery products, population, agricultural machinery, and food aid shipments

• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) statistical yearbook, economic survey
• International Monetary Fund. Country reports
  World Trade Organization. Trade topics, including dispute settlements
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Economic surveys and data
  Organization of American States
  

Foreign Trade Information System. Trade agreements, FTAA process, dispute settlement

InterAmerican Center for Agricultural Cooperation. Production and trade data

• Inter-American Development Bank. Research and statistics by country
• NAFTA Secretariat. Dispute settlement process
• CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center). Agricultural information
  

• Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca, y Alimentación (SAGARPA—Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishing, and Food). Mexican equivalent to USDA. Data, activities of secretariat, and policies.
  

• Apoyos y Servicios a la Comercialización Agropecuaria (ASERCA—Supports and Services for Agricultural Marketing). Administers marketing supports and direct payments to producers. Program information.
• Servicio de Información y Estadística Agroalimentaria y Pesquera (SIAP—Agri-food and Fishing Information and Statistics Service). Similar to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Production data, presentations from Mexican outlook fora, and other agricultural information.

• Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI—National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Information). Centralized statistical entity, similar to the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Wide variety of economic data.
• Secretaría de Economía (SE—Secretariat of Economy). Cabinet-level secretariat with similar responsibilities as the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Trade data, trade agreements, anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases.
  

Sistema Nacional de Información e Integración de Mercados (SNIIM—National System of Market Information and Integration). Database containing Mexican price data for various commodities.

• Banco de México (Bank of Mexico). Mexico’s central bank. Macroeconomic data.
• Fideicomisos Instituidos en Relación con la Agricultura (FIRA—Funds Instituted in Relation to Agriculture). Financial and technical support institution integrated by four government trust funds geared to promote the agricultural and fishing sectors. Economic analysis and program information.

Universities

• El Colegio de México, Programa de Estudios del Cambio Económico y la Sustentabilidad del Agro Mexicano (PRECESAM—Program of Studies of Economic Change and Sustainability in Mexican Agriculture). Results from survey of rural households throughout Mexico.
• Princeton University, Mexican Migration Project. Research effort by investigators at Princeton and Universidad de Guadalajara about Mexican migration to the United States. Data sets.
• Texas A&M University, Agricultural and Food Policy Center. Publications and models.
• Universidad Autónoma Chapingo (Autonomous University of Chapingo). Prominent Mexican agricultural university. Many products from research centers available online.

Other

• Farm Foundation. Numerous trade-related activities under the category of globalization.
• North American Agri-food Market Integration Consortium (NAAMIC). Workshop series about the ongoing integration of North America’s agri-food sectors. Involves persons from academia, government, and the private sector of Mexico, Canada, and the United States.

for more information, contact: Steven Zahniser
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page updated: September 29, 2004