The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative has published a Discussion Paper titled "How can we improve agriculture, food and nutrition with open data?"The Discussion Paper provides basic information on open data and the impact that open data have in different contexts, such as enabling more ...

For the first time crop-level information has been openly shared by a commercial organization: The Syngenta AG collaborates with the Open Data Institute (ODI) to publish progress data of their Good Growth Plan.The Good Growth Plan was launched in 2013 by Syngenta to support the future sustainability in the agricultural ...

CIARD announced an e-Consultation entitled CIARD e-Consulation 2015 :Consideration for future direction which opens from the 30th to the 15th of April 2015 . The consultation is open to CIARD members where they seek to discuss the further development of CIARD. While the output will shape the future of CIARD, the results however , ...

This is a cross-post from the Open Knowledge India blog, see the original here.As a new year 2015 gift to the scholars of the world, the two departments (Department of Biotechnology [DBT] and Department of Science and Technology [DST]) under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India had ...

The CGIAR Funders Forum and Fund Council discussed a draft version of a new Strategy and Results Framework (SRF) for CGIAR in Brussels on November 4-5, 2014 and agreed on next steps to its completion, which will include a broad stakeholder consultation jointly organized by GFAR and the CGIAR Consortium (as ...

El equipo AIMS se complace en anunciar el seminario web "Almetrics: El uso de indicadores alternativos en la medición del impacto de producción científica de la región."ResumenEn los últimos cuatro años, y tras el vertiginoso crecimiento de las redes sociales que genera la llamada ...