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International Symposium: Open Science in the South

25/09/2019

The International Symposium: Open Science in the South, Dakar 23-25 octobre 2019, organized by the French Research Institute for Development (IRD), Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD) and CIRAD accept registration until the 30th of September. Open science is a real lever for facilitating collaborations, conducting quality research, widely disseminating ...

Webinar on Online Resources from the U.S. National Agricultural Library

13/04/2017

 (Image credit: Max Pixel : Creative Commons Zero - CC0)This webinar is organised as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries provided by FAO of the United Nations in collaboration with Research4Life. The webinar is open to the public as well ...

ICTs for Resilience : ongoing online forum

06/12/2016

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and e-Agriculture are carrying out an online forum discussion on "Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Resilience". How can ICTs help resilience programmes or projects?Are there any specific constraints in the use of ICTs for resilience?What are the ...

Open Access Network: be informed, join and take action

30/11/2016

The Open Access Network (OAN) is a transformative model of open access (OA) publishing and preservation that encourages partnerships among scholarly societies, research libraries, and other institutional partners to support the creation and distribution of research, scholarship and affordable education.The OAN was launched in 2015 as a not-for-profit organization that ...

The GODAN Discussion Paper is publicly available

29/05/2015

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 ...

Your opinion is important to the millions who are hungry in the world

11/01/2015

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is conducting a global survey on the state of food policy, food and nutrition security, and food production—and we invite you to participate. The results of the survey will appear in the 2014-2015 Global Food Policy Report, which will be published in ...