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  • CONABIO and SIAgro: capacity development for open agrobiodiversity data

    by Irene Ramos Pérez, CONABIO As part of the Mexican Agrobiodiversity GEF project, the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) is developing an Agrobiodiversity Information System (SIAgro), with FAO as the implementing agency. SIAgro gathers diverse data on native crops in traditional agriculture, including biological, ...
  • Call for Proposals: 50x2030 Research Grant Competition

    The 50x2030 Initiative is sponsoring its second competition for novel research projects that use 50x2030 data. Small grants – from US $1,000-$8,000 – will be issued for projects that employ 50x2030 survey data to generate practical research that can be applied to national policymaking, program (re)design or investment decisions. The Initiative ...
  • FAO joins the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Education Committee

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) promotes the exchange of scientific research and technical knowledge related to all aspects of food and agriculture. During the past years FAO and The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) collaborated on promoting the work that FAO delivers on metadata and ...
  • Dublin Core - 2022 Call for Participation

    For more than two decades, the Dublin Core community has been a fertile ground for researchers, educators, practitioners and developers to exchange and share ideas, knowledge, experience, and innovative projects on metadata for more than two decades. The DC-2022 conference is expanding its scope to the whole spectrum of innovation ...