PMID- 1626887
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19920813
LR  - 20190616
IS  - 0077-8923 (Print)
IS  - 0077-8923 (Linking)
VI  - 653
DP  - 1992 Jun 16
TI  - The Caribbean Animal and Plant Information Network.
PG  - 380-5
AB  - The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) is presently 
      implementing a four-year project in the Caribbean region to establish a regional 
      information network on animal and plant health--the Caribbean Animal and Plant 
      Health Information Network (CARAPHIN). CARAPHIN's immediate goal is to give the 
      participating countries the technical capability to process and analyze the 
      phyto- and zoo-sanitary information that they generate, share this information 
      within the region, and use it as an effective instrument for decision making for 
      agricultural development and trade. Sharing of information is further facilitated 
      through the periodic regional and hemispheric meetings organized by IICA, by the 
      Inter-American Animal Health Commission, and by the Technical Advisory Committee 
      on Plant Protection. The Veterinary and Plant Protection Services of the region 
      have expressed interest in the continuation of CARAPHIN as a permanent mechanism 
      for agricultural health information management in the Caribbean. This motivated 
      IICA to seek financing for a second phase of CARAPHIN, which will be executed 
      from 1992 through 1996. Phase II of the project will seek to ensure the 
      continuing application of the techniques and methodologies acquired by the 
      agricultural health services of the different countries, and the functioning of 
      the disease/pest information systems at the regional level. This will be achieved 
      through technical assistance, continuing education, publications, provision of 
      useful databases, and transfer of the project to a regional institution.
FAU - Dugas, R
AU  - Dugas R
AD  - Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Office in Trinidad and 
      Tobago, Port of Spain.
FAU - Bernardo, T M
AU  - Bernardo TM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Ann N Y Acad Sci
JT  - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
JID - 7506858
SB  - IM
MH  - *Agriculture
MH  - *Animal Diseases
MH  - Animals
MH  - *Databases, Factual
MH  - *Plant Diseases
MH  - *Veterinary Medicine
MH  - West Indies
EDAT- 1992/06/16 00:00
MHDA- 1992/06/16 00:01
CRDT- 1992/06/16 00:00
PHST- 1992/06/16 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1992/06/16 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1992/06/16 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1992.tb19665.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1992 Jun 16;653:380-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1992.tb19665.x.