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How Hawassa University is Utilising FAO’s AGORA to Advance Research, Support Academic Growth, and Contribute to Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Ethiopia

17/10/2024

In this conversation, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) interviews Mulugeta Woldetsadik, Outreach Librarian/Information Professional at Hawassa University (HU), Ethiopia, who has extensive professional experience in Library & Information Services. Mulugeta Woldetsadik highlights the impact of FAO’s Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) ...

World Food Day and AGRIS: Empowering the Right to Food Through Knowledge

16/10/2024

Every year on October 16, we celebrate World Food Day, a global event organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to raise awareness of the ongoing struggle against hunger. This year, as we focus on the #RightToFood, we are reminded that access to sufficient, nutritious food is a fundamental human ...

Registration is now open for the FAO webinar “Introduction to AGRIS: How to effectively search Global Agricultural Research" on 6 November 2024 at 14:00 CET

15/10/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is set to host a webinar on 6 November at 14:00 CEST to explore AGRIS, the International System for Agricultural Science and Technology, and demonstrate how to search effectively and efficiently within the database. This webinar, titled “Introduction to AGRIS: How to ...

Registration is now open for the webinar “Enhancing Article Findability in Agricultural Sciences with AGROVOC Thesaurus” with a focus on “Plant Production and Protection” on 23 October 2024 at 14:00 CEST

26/09/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is set to host a webinar on 23 October at 14:00 CEST to demonstrate how to improve article findability with controlled vocabularies. FAO’s valuable multilingual controlled vocabulary, AGROVOC, will be used as a use case in this webinar, which will be ...

Celebrating Multilingualism Day with FAO’s AGRIS and AGROVOC

23/09/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)’s Agriculture Information Management Team celebrates Multilingualism Day on 23 September by highlighting the team’s multilingual knowledge-sharing platforms including AGRIS and AGROVOC, which combined provide access to content available in more than 110 different languages.AGRIS, The International System for Agricultural ...