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Invitation to the Interest Group in Agricultural Data (IGAD) Pre-Meeting P12 in Gaborone, Botswana

The next IGAD Pre-Meeting will focus on Data collection in Africa: State of the art, challenges and solutions and be held on 5-6 November 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana.

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO JOIN ! [read more]

Achievements, impact and strategy for AGROVOC’s future

The AGROVOC Team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) convened the first meeting of AGROVOC Editors and stakeholders held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in June 2018. The objectives of this meeting were to reinforce the AGROVOC editorial community, and to set priorities for the next few years for the AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus. READ ON MORE HERE.

Looking for Agricultural Science and Technology Information?

FAO - AGRIS (International Information System for the Agricultural Science and Technology) is a free of charge service that provides access and visibility to bibliographic data on research papers, reports, multimedia material, grey literature and other content types in agricultural and related sciences. LEARN MORE about AGRIS

AGORA : Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

AGORA is one of the five programmes making up Research4Life. The other four programmes are Hinari, OARE, GOALI and ARDI, covering research in health, environment, law, development and innovation. LEARN MORE about AGORA

FAIR data use-cases from a lot of experience in working with data...

Within the framework of the Research Data Alliance Plenary (RDA)11: "From Data to Knowledge" (21 - 23 March, 2018, Berlin, Germany), the RDA Agricultural Data Interest Group (IGAD) meeting was dedicated to the discussion of What does FAIR mean for a community like agri-food? and What does it do about it? READ MORE HERE…

AIMS achievements in 2017

This AIMS e-newsletter features some latest AIMS achievements and milestones in 2017. Highlights on Semantics ... on the provision of Access to Data and Knowledge … on Capacity Development ... on Open Data ... Find out more here.

Data Interoperability using standards : A Wheat Community use case

To face the challenge of data interoperability in Wheat Research Community, members of the RDA - IGAD - Wheat Data Interoperability Working Group published the Wheat Data Interoperability Guidelines on how to create, manage and share data related to wheat. Find out more ...

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AIMS是有关获取农业标准、技术和最佳实践的信息门户。同时它也是一个联系全世界信息管理工作者的一个论坛，基于此讨论农业信息的开放获取和开放数据。AIMS是协作和互操作性的坚决拥护者。

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Blog Post20 Sep 2018
South Africa is working towards the advancement of the OPEN SCIENCE agenda elsewhere on the continent
"Open Science refers to an approach to research based on greater access to public research data enabled by information and communications technology tools and platforms, broader collaboration...
Blog Post18 Sep 2018
Workshop Registration is still Open: Data Management for Wheat Phenotyping
The Wheat Initiative, through the Expert Working Groups on Wheat Phenotyping and Wheat Information System, is organizing a two-day (24th - 25th of September) training workshop on data management...
Blog Post18 Sep 2018
Regístrese antes del 7 de Octubre! AGORA Curso en línea: Fundamentos de Alfabetización Informacional y Acceso Global en Línea a la Investigación en Agricultura
AGORA Curso en línea: Fundamentos de Alfabetización Informacional y Acceso Global en Línea a la Investigación en Agricultura Regístrese antes del 7 de Octubre!La Organización de las Naciones Unidas...
Blog Post17 Sep 2018
Welcome to Fall Armyworm Portal (CABI, September 2018)
(Image source: FAO of the UN)The Fall armyworm portal contains a wide range of news, research, practical extension materials, videos and other resources on fall armyworm. The information...

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Training Activities

A free e-learning programme on open data is ongoing to help strengthen the capacity of data producers and data consumers to manage and use open data in agriculture and nutrition. This free e-learning course is developed as part of the capacity development activities within the GODAN Action project. The e-course - available through Moodle for free - focuses on how to deal with different types of data formats and uses, and on the importance of reliability, accessibility, interoperability and transparency of data.

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Highlights

Invitation to the Interest Group in Agricultural Data (IGAD) Pre-Meeting P12 in Gaborone, Botswana

Achievements, impact and strategy for AGROVOC’s future

Looking for Agricultural Science and Technology Information?

AGORA : Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

FAIR data use-cases from a lot of experience in working with data...

AIMS achievements in 2017

Data Interoperability using standards : A Wheat Community use case

欢迎访问AIMS

News

South Africa is working towards the advancement of the OPEN SCIENCE agenda elsewhere on the continent

Workshop Registration is still Open: Data Management for Wheat Phenotyping

Regístrese antes del 7 de Octubre! AGORA Curso en línea: Fundamentos de Alfabetización Informacional y Acceso Global en Línea a la Investigación en Agricultura

Welcome to Fall Armyworm Portal (CABI, September 2018)

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