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FAO & ITU E-agriculture in Action: Big Data for Agriculture

26/07/2019

In continuation of our efforts to promote sustainable ICTs for agriculture and to share knowledge on emerging technologies that holds great promise for agriculture,the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have released the next in the series of E-agriculture in ...

Strengthening the Accessibility and Visibility of Agricultural and Land Data through the Use of Semantics - AGRIS in Europe and Central Asia

24/07/2019

Moscow, 27-28 June 2019 The aim of the workshop was to discuss thematic topics and cross cutting topics on management, use and further developments related to AGRIS. Also, to look at the use of AGRIS, in particular in the context of research data in agriculture and land, with the objectives of ...

AGRIS July 2019 data release

24/07/2019

We are pleased to inform you that, with the AGRIS data release in July2019, AGRIS has reached 10,092,143 records. The next AGRIS data release will take place in September 2019. All data received during August will be included in this release. We thank all AGRIS data providers for their contributions!

The world is off-track to meet most of the SDGs linked to hunger, food security and nutrition.

18/07/2019

FAO today released a report on the indicators under its custodianship.  In the first report of its kind, FAO analysed, in a visual way, major global trends and data from up to 234 countries and territories on 18 indicators of four SDGs (2, 6, 14 and 15) under FAO’s custodianship. The report is available from: ...

AGROVOC Editors from many countries convene at KTBL in Darmstadt

15/07/2019

AGROVOC meeting participants, Darmstadt 24 June 2019 As a follow-up to last year's successful AGROVOC Editors' meeting in Utrecht, thirty-three editors and stakeholders from 16 countries and 13 language areas met on June 24-25 2019 at the German Association for Technology and Structures in Agriculture (KTBL) in Darmstadt, Germany. AGROVOC is a multilingual thesaurus and ...