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Global Food Security Symposium 2017

20/03/2017

 Join the upcoming (March 29-30 | Washington, DC) Global Food Security Symposium 2017 ! After years of incremental progress in the fight against poverty and malnutrition, eradicating hunger is now within our grasp._________________________________________________________________________________________________ For the first time, the symposium will be a two-day event. Prior to the full day of presentations and report ...

openAFRICA : the largest independent repository of open data on the African continent

20/03/2017

openAFRICA is not a government portal. It is instead a grassroots initiative, that runs with support from Code for Africa, the World Bank and Google as a public service. The platform is therefore available as a free resource for ordinary citizens, civil society organisations, civic activists, the media, and government ...

The IDEALIS : a new Open Access overlay Journal

17/03/2017

The IDEALIS is a new kind of open access overlay journal, powered by PressForward and curated by librarian-experts working in the arena of scholarly communication research. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________Motivation: Frustrated by the lack of access to high-quality library and information science research, a group of US-based librarians and open access activists have ...

Research Data Management Summer School. Apply now!

17/03/2017

From 3-7 July 2017, the first EUDAT & RDM Summer School will take place in the stunning setting of Heraklion, Crete.  Go to the Application section to submit your application. Deadline for submissions is 17 April, 2017.___________________________________________________________________________________________________From 3-7 July 2017, EUDAT (Research Data Services, Expertise & Technology Solutions) is organizing a Summer School, set in ...

Nutrition Impact Assessment Tool : UNSCN Discussion Paper

16/03/2017

This discussion paper presents a tool that will help to ensure that nutrition considerations are explicitly addressed and incorporated into development and policy decision-making processes. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________Full Discussion paper: English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, ChinesePolicy brief: English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, ChineseThe author of the discussion paper is Dr. Anna Herforth, ...