Herewith a few useful websites:

Professional Organisations
General
Housing
Clothing & textiles
Food & nutrition
Resource management

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences: http://www.aafcs.org

American Association of Housing Educators: http://www.cast.ilstu.edu.aahe/cast.html

Canadian Home Economics Association: http://www.chea-acef.ca

Chartered Institute of Housing: http://www.cih.org/

Environmental Design Reserach Association: http://www.building.org/profiles/51126.html

IFHE - International Federation for Home Economics: http://www.ifhe.org

IFT – Institute of Food Technologists: http://www.ift.org

Institute of Food Science and Technology: http://www.ifst.org

SAAFECS - South African Association for Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences
http://www.up.ac.za/academic/acadorgs/saafecs/saafecs.html

SAAFOST – South African Association for Food Science and 
Technology: http://www.saafost.org.za

South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions: http://www.sacnasp.org.za

GENERAL

Housing from Department of Human Development and Family Studies: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Pages/housing/other/housing

Institute of Development Studies: http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/

Quality of Life – concept and measurement http://www.uib.no/isf/people/doc/qol/comp0000.htm

South African Data Archives: http://www.nrf.ac.za/sada/index.asp

Sustainable livelihoods: http://www.undp.org/sl/

Women’s Net – upcoming events, research papers: http://womensnet.org.za

HOUSING

General:

Department of Housing: http://www.housing.gov.za/

Homeless International: http://www.homeless-international.org/

Homeless Online: http://www.homeless.org/

Informal Housing Markets: a Review - informal settlements, rentals, tenure: http://www.cyberstation.net/hf/mchg/coc/chapter2.htm

National Housing Trust: http://www.nhtinc.org/

Prodder training and capacity building providers: http://www.prodder.co.za

Saqa – South African Qualifications Authority: http://www.saqa.org.za

Social housing links: http://silkincourt.hypermat.het/links.html

The National Coalition for the Homeless: http://www.nationalhomeless.org

The Urban Sector Network: NGO-network of development organisations http://wn.apc.org/usn/usn.html

Virginia University Library - index: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/

Arts and humanities exploration - index: http://www.loggia.com/

Richtex Architecture and Building links - index: http://www.architecturelinks.com/

Interior Design:

Art & architecture index: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/index2.html/

Community Eco-design Network: http://www.cedn.org/ecodesign.html

Cultural History & architecture - index: http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/webmuseums

Encarta – history of interior design: http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/08/008ac000.htm

Furniture Design Links – index: http://www.valuecreatedreview.com/6cfdes.htm

Furniture Design: http://www.steelform.com

Home Decorator – magazine articles: http://www.homefurnish.com

Museum lists – index to virtual museums: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/lists.html

United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat): http://www.unchs.org

Universal Design Group - design, universal design, principles, guidelines: http://www.architectural-design.com/

Finance:

HomePath: home finance information: http://www.homepath.com/sitemap.html

CLOTHING AND TEXTILES

Indexes:

Textile industry links – index: http://www.miltonia.com/

Textile crafts – index: http://www.textiles.org/craft_list.html
General:

Visual sources and Costume Research: http://patriot.net/~nachtanz/SReed/vishist.html

Cotton links – history, fibres, research: http://cotton.net/index.htm

Cotton on the Net – directory and information: http://www.cotton-net.com/

Why wool carpets work: http://www.parish-supply.com/wool.htm

Wool works – patterns, crafts, knitting and links: http://www.woolworks.org/resources.html

Wool Home – care of wool, wardrobe, fashion collection: http://www.woolmark.com/

Threads – magazine – search for articles: http://www.taunton.com/th/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/search.htm

FOOD AND NUTRITION

Indexes:

American Dietetic Association – gateway to related sites: http://www.eatright.org/index.html

Austin Nutritional Research: http://www.realtime.net/anr

Bob Messenger’s Food & Beverage Network – index of e-mail and 
web sites of food industry: http://www.foodtrends.com

Food infonet: http://www.foodinfonet.com/

Index of Food and Nutrition Internet Resources: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/fnic.html

International Food Information Council (IFIC): http://ificinfo.health.org

Nutrition Navigator – a guide to nutrition websites: 
http://navigator.tufts.edu/

The Food Resource: http://osu.orst.edu/food-resource/food.html

Web Resources for Food Science and Related Areas: http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/FoodScience/links.html

World Food Net: http://www.WorldFoodNet.com

Epicurious Food Index: http://food.epicurious.com/a_home/a01_index/a01index.html

General:

Flavour and taint information – compounds according to sensory and chromatographic properties: http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/flavornet/index.html

Cholesterol main page index: http://www.heartpoint.com/cholesterolmain.html

ANC Agricultural policy: http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/policy/agricpol.html

Product development:

Biotechnology patents and new technology: http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/Biotech_Patents

European patent office: http://www.european-patent-office.org

Food product development: http://www.foodproductdesign.com

International law on patents: http://www.wipo.org

Patent history, value, terms: http://www.derwent.com

Patent information: http://www.delphion.com

Nutrition:

Arbor Nutrition Guide: http://www.arborcom.com

Baby center – exercise & nutrition page: http://www.babycenter.com/nutrition/

Food & Nutrition Information: http://www.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/~skurrayg

Food composition: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/index.htm

Food composition: http://www.crop.cri.nz/index.htm

Food, nutrition &n health pamphlets (US Government) – index: http://www.hoptechno.com/bookidx.htm

Nutrition Analysis Tool (NAT): http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~food-lab/nat

Nutrition index: http://aesop.rutgers.edu/~nutrition/nutlinks.htm

Nutrition tables: http://www.nightcrew.com/sante7000/sante7000_search.cfm

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition – magazine: http://www.faseb.org/ajcn/

Biotechnology:

Agbiotech On-line – diary of events around the world & list of Agbiotech websites: http://gophisb.biochem.vt.edu

BIOBIN – laws and regulatory bodies, database of field trials: http://www.oecd.org/ehs/biobin

Biotechnology patents and new technology: http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/Biotech_Patents

Economics and management of agricultural biotechnology: http://www.agbioforum.org/

Genetic modification: http://www.monsanto.com

Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/search.shtml

USDA’s Biotechnology Permits – status of permits, procedures for permit applications: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/bbep/bp/index.html

Food safety:

Centre for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition - resource of foodborne pathogenic micro-organisms and natural toxins, food safety issues: http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html

Food borne Diseases: http://www.cdc.gov

Institute of Food Science & Technology – position statements on food safety: http://www.ifst.org/

US Department of Agriculture: http://www.usda.gov

Food manufacturing and production:

Food infonet - manufacturing: http://www.foodinfonet.com/

Food manufacture – market reports, new products and services, etc.: http://www.dotfoods.com

UN Food & Agriculture Organisation – reports, food production statistics: http://www.fao.org

Allergies/additives/labelling:

Allergy Society of South Africa – food allergies, additives, food labelling: http://AllergySA.org/allsa.htm

Food trends:

Hot food trends: http://www.prweb.com/releases/1998/prweb3098.htm

Food Trends: http://www.foodwine.com/food/egg/egg0198/foodtrend.html

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Ergonomics:

Human Factors & Ergonomics – index: http://www.usernomics.com/hf.html