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CELL5M: a geospatial data and analytics platform of harmonized multi-disciplinary data layers for agricultural research and development

15/03/2016

The HarvestChoice CELL5M Database was developed by International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI to move multidisciplinary data  underlying  agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa into one harmonized, geospatial database. CELL5M was recently presented by Jawoo Koo (IFPRI) at the IGAD Pre-plenary meeting during the RDA Seventh Plenary Meeting, Tokyo (Japan)....

New collaboration - AGROVOC and the Georgian TECHINFORM

14/03/2016

TECHINFORM, the Georgian Central Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, has joined the AGROVOC community of editors.As of the next release, AGROVOC will also include Georgian. This will happen thanks to the contribution of the Georgian Central Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (TECHNIFORMI). AGROVOC team greatly appreciate this ...

Crop Ontology: harmonizing semantics for phenotyping and agronomy data

14/03/2016

The Crop Ontology project is the creation of the Generation Challenge Programme GCP of CGIAR,  which understood from its inception the importance of controlled vocabularies and ontologies for the digital annotation of data. The Crop Ontology was presented at the IGAD Pre-plenary meeting before the RDA 7th Plenary, by Bioversity ...

Presentación de AGORA y AGRIS en el primer encuentro entre FAO, SSAN-UNASUL e instituciones académicas para evaluar perspectivas de cooperación

11/03/2016

La semana pasada se realizó el primer encuentro entre la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura, la rede SSAN-UNASUL y varias instituciones académicas con la finalidad de sumar esfuerzos y construir cambios para crear capacidades en el área de la agricultura y ...

Symposium on Stressors and Drivers of Food Security: Evidence from Scientific Collections

11/03/2016

Scientific Collections International: Food Security Research InitiativeSymposium Prospectus, 1st mailing National Agriculture Library, Beltsville, MD: 18-20 May 2016 Like war and disease, food security has been a dominant factor in human history. Food security has fueled rapid growth in population size and its insecurity has led to the collapse of societies ...