The booklet Towards FARMER-led RESEARCH: a GUIDEBOOK  - published (2018) by the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO) - aims to provide you with support to work together with farmers in research. In particular, this guide: synthesises literature on Farmer-Led Research from around the world, with a focus on the North ...

D4Science.org is an organisation offering a Data Infrastructure service and a number (+100) of Virtual Research Environments (VREs).  To serve the biological, ecological, environmental, social mining, culture heritage, and statistical communities world-wide; VREs connect +5,500 scientists in +50 countries. To that end, D4Science Data Infrastructure integrates +50 heterogeneous data providers, and + 500 ...

Open source designates a broader set of values of 'the open source way'... "Open source projects, products, or initiatives embrace and celebrate principles of open exchange, collaborative participation, rapid prototyping, transparency, and community-oriented development" (Opensource.com) Below you will find some Open Source iniziatives aiming to harness the power of ...

“Data can be either useful or perfectly anonymous, but never both...” Paul Ohm – UCLA Law review 2010 57 UCLA L. Rev. 1701).   The CGIAR (the world's largest global agricultural innovation network) Team has published Responsible Data GUIDELINES: Managing Privacy and Personally Identifiable Information in the Research Project Data Lifecycle  intended to assist agricultural ...

1980... 1980: AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus was started by FAO, in order to provide access to semantic information (concepts, terms, and relations) covering all of FAO's areas of interest including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment and other related topics.   To date, AGROVOC is a collaborative international effort, coordinated by FAO, with up ...