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Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) 2016 Summit

04/02/2016

GODAN is planning a 2016 Summit for its partners to advance the agenda for open data in agriculture and nutrition The Summit has one clear challenge in mind: a call to action to help the GODAN partnership pinpoint and fill the critical data gaps in agriculture and nutrition required to achieve ...

The countdown is on to IGAD’s first pre-meeting of 2016

03/02/2016

Attendees are gearing up for the 7th RDA plenary meeting in Tokyo (RDA P7) at the beginning of March, and preparations are also underway for IGAD’s pre-meeting, set to take place before the plenary.Comprising a day and a half of intensive discussion (28-29th February at the University ...

How digital products are fixing problems in agriculture

03/02/2016

William Warshauer’s article “How digital is solving 3 problems in agriculture” was published on World Economic Forum in January 2016. It is about some effects of  “fourth industrial revolution” that looks like for increasing numbers of the world’s smallholder farmers. A variety of new digital applications are now accelerating interventions ...

Geospatial Ontology Of Agricultural Regions: An Exercise In Knowledge Engineering. A new article!

02/02/2016

The article offers an overview discussion of the geospatial ontology and history of agriculture regions. Afterwards it presents some methods for geospatial ontology development with focus on  globally distributed agricultural regions. This ontology may be useful for governing bodies in environmental monitoring or environmental decision-making on a national scale.The ...

Open Data in Global Environmental Research: The Belmont Forum’s Open Data Survey

01/02/2016

The findings of the Belmont Forum’s survey on Open Data – published on PLOS ONE - demonstrate a substantial uptake of data sharing through e-infrastructures and a further need for enhancement and consolidation. 98% of respondents claimed publishing of open data to be important in their community to advance research!The ...