Source: Towards country-specific SMART commitments for action on nutrition © FAO, 2016On 1 April 2016, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, through its Resolution 70/259, proclaimed 2016–2025 the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (Nutrition Decade). Under the normative framework of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, ...

AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) is one of the four programmes making up Research4Life (R4L) facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). AGORA's goal is to provide free or low cost access (complementary to open access) to peer-reviewed journals (to ...

At the recent General Partner Meeting (AGM) held in Oxford in July 2017, Global Online Access to Legal Information or in short “GOALI” - a New Legal Training Resource for Developing Countries, was officially approved as the new 5th programme to be launched in February 2018 as the newest member of the ...

"Principles for Digital Development" are “living” guidelines to help development practitioners to integrate best practices into technology enabled programs.While the "Principle 5" invites users to "Be Data Driven", the "Principle 6" focuses on "Use of Open Data, Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation" as a framework to consider an “Open” ...

(Image source: Persistent myths about open access scientific publishing; The Guardian) With regard to some current discussions on Open Access publishing, this essay presents some useful links to the current state of affairs at UN, EU and IFLA level for Open Science and Open Access.  Open Science and thus Open ...