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  • AGROVOC is now a certified Digital Public Good!

    AGROVOC has been certified as a Digital Public Good. The Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) is a multi-stakeholder initiative that accelerates the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in Digital Public Goods (DPGs). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) joined the DPGA in May 2022...

  • December 2023: New release of the AGROVOC Thesaurus

    The December 2023 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 41 178 concepts and more than 997 000 terms, in up to 42 languages. The AGROVOC team thanks all the AGROVOC editors who have contributed to the addition of concepts, terms and other contents. Learn more about the AGROVOC editors here .

  • New concepts added to AGROVOC. December 2023

    Forty-five new concepts have been added to the AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus which now contains 41 178 concepts. To consult the list of new or updated labels per language you can visit the FAO CKAN Repository . The AGROVOC Editorial Community thanks those who contributed to this release. New AGROVOC concepts moderate poverty transit time ants abalone viral ganglioneuritis Taura syndrome...

  • New webinar on “AGROVOC: making research more visible across languages”

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is set to host a webinar intended to highlight FAO’s valuable multilingual controlled vocabulary, AGROVOC , and how it can impact multilingual research through AGORA . The webinar titled “AGROVOC: making research more visible across languages” will be held on 5 December at 14:00 CET. Research4Life recently integrated AGROVOC as a...

  • Introducing the new AGROVOC Online Course: Enhancing knowledge in controlled vocabularies

    The new AGROVOC Online Course is now available on the FAO KnowledgeLab platform. This course is tailored to cater to the needs of both individuals and institutions and is offered entirely free of charge in English. The course is structured as a self-paced e-learning program, allowing participants the flexibility to progress through the content at their own convenience and pace. It's worth noting...