Open Source Simple Computer for Agriculture in Rural Areas
(OSCAR)

Botanical Resources

Our team of Botanists and Agronomists are involved in various initiatives from writing multimedia based applications to identify botanical species to promoting alternative farming practices.

Complete Latins names of species (genus, species and authority) and the synonymy for each species in the Missouri Botanical Garden website: http://www.mobot.org/W3Tropicos.

For taxonomy and control: http://www.wssa.net/

For general information: http://www.new-agri.co.uk/

CIRAD has also made species identifications softwares for weeds of Reunion Islands and West Africa. Check them at:
http://malherbologie.cirad.fr/Fr/outils/index_outils.php?pageid=advenrun

Global Biodiversity Information Facility: http://www.gbif.org/

Species Gateway: http://artportalen.se/Default.asp

The Prometheus Taxonomic Database:
http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~prometheus/

DiGIR - Distributed Generic Information Retrieval: http://www.digir.net/