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ANNEX 1 - SOME OPUNTIA WEBSITES


FAO - Cactus Pear as Forage (Technical Bulletins)

http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/AGP/AGPC/doc/pasture/CACTUS.HTM

Cactusnet Newsletter 2000

http://www.data.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/AGP/AGPC/doc/publicat/Cactusnt/cactus0.htm

Development of Sustainable Agriculture in Arid Regions of Chile - Paper on “Prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) utilization as a feed for ruminants”

http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/oals/proj/linkages/cactus/feed.html

IPGRI - An ethnobotanical inventory

http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/ipgri/fruits_from_americas/frutales/Ficha%20Opuntia%20ficus-indica.htm

Paper on “Controle de plantas daninhas na cultura da palma forrageira (Opuntia ficus-indica, Mill.)”

http://www.sbz.org.br/eventos/PortoAlegre/homepagesbz/For%5CFOR146.htm

FAO Electronic Conference - Paper on “The Prickly Pears (Opuntia spp., Cactaceae)”.

http://www.fao.org/ag/aga/agap/FRG/ECONF95/HTML/OPUNTIA.HTM

Paper on Biological Control of Opuntia stricta in the Kruger National Park

http://www.parks-sa.co.za/knp/scientificservices/hoffmann%20opuntia.html

Environmental Affairs Office, Washington State USA - Opuntia fragilis

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/environmental/programs/culres/ethbot/m-p/Opuntia.htm

Arizona - Index of Prickly Pears

http://arizona.cacti.home.att.net/cacti02.htm

Paper on “Evaluation of leucaena and cactus pear as forage resources for rabbits”

http://www.asas.org/jas/papers/1997/mtgabs/rabbitsym.pdf

Value and Use of Opuntia polyacantha

http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/cactus/opupol/value_and_use.html

FAO electronic conference - Paper on “Opuntia-based ruminant feeding systems in Mexico”

http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/envis/doc97html/envfoo24.html

Paper on “Plains Prickly pear: relation to grazing intensity and blue grama yield on central great plains”

http://jrm.library.arizona.edu/data/1968/212/6beme.pdf

Native cultivars of cactus pear in Mexico

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1996/v3-446.html

FAO - a paper on “Opuntiae: a strategic fodder and efficient tool to combat desertification in the WANA region

http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/PUBLICAT/Cactusnt/cactus2.htm

Cactus homepage of Texas A & M University, including use as forage

http://www.tamuk.edu/webuser/cactus/

Paper on “Efeito da adubação e de nematicida no crescimento da palma forrageira cv. Gigante

http://www.sbz.org.br/eventos/PortoAlegre/homepagesbz/For%5CFOR172.htm

Prickly Pear Cactus Control

http://www.aginfonet.com/agricarta/content/grazing_pasture_technology/prickly_pear.html

Famine Food Field Guide - Opuntia ficus-indica

http://www.telecom.net.et/~undp-eue/faminefoodweb/category1/cat1_Opuntia_sp_ok.htm

Programa de investigación y servicio en nopal

http://www.chapingo.mx/ciestaam/directorio/nopal.htm


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