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AGROVOC Adds New Concepts Related to COVID-19

10/04/2020

Following a request for more specific terminology on COVID-19, AGROVOC has added new concepts related to the current world health crisis in an extra release on 10 April.  This extra release is helpful for those cataloguing, especially as there is a plethora of research being done at the same time on ...

Webinar: Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition: Making agriculture and food systems nutrition-sensitive

10/04/2020

Invitation to technical webinar Tuesday 28 April 2020 | 14:30 - 16:00 CEST Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition: Making agriculture and food systems nutrition-sensitive Register here.  BACKGROUND This international technical webinar is part of the series organized by the FAO eLearning Academy, Agreenium (l'Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France) and UN-ESCAP (United ...

IGAD/RDA : Sharing Experiences and Creating Digital Dialogues Virtual Meeting

09/04/2020

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) meeting focusing on IGAD/RDA : Sharing Experiences and Creating Digital Dialogues, which was set to be held in Rome (Italy) in April 2020 will now take place as a virtual meeting. Due to the current world status including the harsh ...

Call for the Least Developed Countries: Register for the Research4Life Massive Open Online Course on Global Access to Research in Health, Food and Agriculture, Environment, Innovation and Law

08/04/2020

The United Nations Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries (UNTB) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently announced a new partnership  to support the delivery of online training activities for the 47 least-developed countries to enhance the access to recent scientific knowledge, and thus give them ...

Virtual Plenary Session for Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) set for April 9

06/04/2020

With the recent cancellation of Plenary 15 in Melbourne, Australia, the local organising committee, RDA Technical Advisory Board and RDA Secretariat are pleased to offer the RDA Virtual Plenary 15 (VP 15). VP 15 will offer remote access to many of the sessions that were planned to take place in Melbourne. This includes the ...