GODAN Action Partners, namely Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,  Agroknow and Open Data Institute (ODI), have recently announced the Data Publication Online Helpdesk.The aim of this Question & Answer (Q&A) service is to provide support to data publishers and consumers on the use of existing ...

The CGIAR’S Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC*) has opened registration for the upcoming SCIENCE FORUM 2018 (SF18) on “Win more, lose less: Capturing synergies between SDGs through agricultural research”.SF18  will be held from 10-12 October 2018 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The objective of this year’s Forum is to ...

(Publishing in Open Access Journals, IDRC | CRDI) Open Access is when publications are freely availble online to all at no cost and with limited restrictions with regards reuse. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, ...

What do we mean by farmers’ rights to data?Who owns data?Who is entitled to the value of the data?What is the role of privacy in the agricultural sector?These and other related questions are answeredin this GODAN's webinar on FARMER RIGHTS on DATA and OWNERSHIP issuesBACKGROUNDThere is ...

The FAO AGRIS team is pleased to inform all AGRIS data providers and users about the AGRIS September 2018 data release with 76,077 new records.  As of September 2018, number of AGRIS multilingual bibliographic records has reached 9,466,760 (July 2018: 9,268,679).   The next AGRIS data release will take place in October 2018. The AGRIS team at the ...