This website provides a country analysis brief of Germany giving a country overview, economic overview, energy overview, and an environmental overview.
The European Bio-based Economy Website: posts monthly newsletters for up to date information regarding bio-based policy in Europe.
Eurostat: a wide range of statistical information for Europe and its agricultural industries. You can get prepared tables, graphs and maps from this site. You can also download data – but you need to register as a user to do so.
European Commission: website provides information for the Commission. A good source for EU policies, publications, laws, etc.
Portrait of the Regions: Gives a short description of the different geographical regions of Germany.
USDA Economic Research Service – Briefing rooms: this site provides an analysis of a wide variety of US agricultural topics (including bio-energy). Information on Germany is usually included as part of analysis on the EC
USDA- Foreign Agricultural Service has a great deal of information on agriculture in Europe and Germany – most from a US perspective.
Germany’s Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Production website: information on Germany’s agriculture and includes the Federal Government Agricultural reports, Organic Farming reports, and key elements on the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
German Language Links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/
http://www.uni.edu/becker/German2.htmln
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