Wamis - www.wamis.org    The main objective of WAMIS is to provide a dedicated web server for disseminating agro-meteorological products issued by WMO Members. By providing a central location for agro-meteorological information, WAMIS will aid users to quickly and easily evaluate the various bulletins and gain insight into improving their own bulletins. The web site will also host training modules to further help Members improve the quality and presentation of their agro-meteorological bulletins.

Agricultural Meteorology Programme, WMO - http://www.wmo.ch/index-en.html The purpose of the Agricultural Meteorology Programme (AGMP) is to support food and agricultural production and activities. The Programme assists Members in provision of meteorological and related services to the agricultural community to help develop sustainable and economically viable agricultural systems, improve production and quality, reduce losses and risks, decrease costs, increase efficiency in the use of water, labour and energy, conserve natural resources and decrease pollution by agricultural chemicals or other agents that contribute to the degradation of the environment. Although sometimes combined, climate information is used mainly for planning purposes, while recent weather data and weather forecasts are used mostly in current agricultural operations.

Commission for agro-met, WMO - http://www.wmo.ch/index-en.html

FAO – www.fao.org - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.

National Drought Mitigation Centre, University of Lincoln-Nebraska (Drought Monitor)-http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html   The National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) helps people and institutions develop and implement measures to reduce societal vulnerability to drought, stressing preparedness and risk management rather than crisis management. Most of the NDMC’s services are directed to state, federal, regional, and tribal governments that are involved in drought and water supply planning.

 Belize meteorological Service - http://www.hydromet.gov.bz/. The only existing CMO member with agro-met forecasts and other agro-met. activities.

Bureau of Meteorology, Australia - http://www.bom.gov.au/silo/products/Drought.shtml

Drought Watch, Canada - http://www.agr.gc.ca/pfra/drought/ccap_e.htm. The CCAP is an interactive product that uses low-resolution, digital satellite data during the growing season to monitor the changing vegetation conditions over the predominant spring wheat growing region of western Canada and the United States. This weekly interactive information package produces timely, quantitative and objective information on crop and pasture conditions at the provincial/state, census agricultural region / county, census division, census consolidated subdivision and township levels. It includes colour images and maps, graphs and tables. CCAP is a client/server application developed using Map Objects, Java and Visual Basic

GECAFS. GECAFS was launched in 2001 as an international, interdisciplinary research project to better understand the relationships between Global Environmental Change (GEC) and food security. GECAFS’ goal is to determine strategies to cope with the impacts of global environmental change on food systems and to assess the environmental and socioeconomic consequences of adaptive responses aimed at improving food security. GECAFS addresses three major questions of interest to science, development and society: (i) How will global environmental change affect the vulnerability of food systems in different regions? (ii) How can we adapt food systems to cope with global environmental change and improve food security? (iii) How will various adaptation options feedback on environmental and socioeconomic conditions?  GECAFS has three regional programmes one of which focuses on Caribbean food systems. The questions which govern the Caribbean research are two-tared as they focus on local/national concerns and regional (under the CARICOM mechanism). The Caribbean team is also involved in developing scenarios (plausible futures) for Caribbean food systems. For more on the GECAFS project (and in particular the Caribbean programme) please visit their website at www.gecafs.org

Check out the 2004 agro-met bulletin of the St. Lucia Ministry of Agriculture Food and fisheries at  www.slumaffe.org