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WEB RESOURCES
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/nsri T he National Soil Resources Institute (NSRI), Cranfield University, England, is the repository
of the results of over sixty years of soil surveying, mapping and classification in England and Wales. This is reflected
in its many publications in report and map formats.
http://www.fao.org T he Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is the chief body of the United Nations concerned with
food, agriculture and hunger on the world scale. As well as being involved in soil classification and the production of
a Soil Map of the World with UNESCO, it supports and publishes soil studies from throughout the world. In addition
it is very active in the fields of agricultural production, trade, and development in less developed countries (LDCs).
http://macaulay.ac.uk T he Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI), Aberdeen, deals with all aspects of soils in
Scotland - their formation, distribution, and mapping.
http://www.usda.gov Th e United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is arguably the foremost government institution
in the world in the field of temperate zone agriculture. Its activities in the fields of soil survey and classification can be
accessed on its Web Soil Survey.