This week (October 21 -27) is Open Access Week, a global event in its 6th year running promoting open access as a concept and a communication model for research and scholarly output. AIMS supports (through the CIARD) Open Access focusing on the promotion of methodologies and good practices to enhance the ...
The wild relatives of our crops – called Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) – are used and have been used since the beginning of agriculture, to improve the yields, resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, and nutritional quality of crops. Their conservation, especially in their natural surroundings (in situ), is crucial for agricultural ...
A new Journal called 'Scientific Data' to be launched by Nature in May 2014 has made a call for submissions. What makes this publication unique is that it is open-access, online-only publication for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets, which aims to foster data sharing and reuse, and ultimately to accelerate the ...
If you want to know more about what the AIMS platform has to offer in terms of standards, tools and methodologies, and not to forget the community, please join us this afternoon at 16:00 pm Rome time (Time Converter) at the open webinar:
Recommendations for Agricultural Information Management: Introducing the AIMS ...
As part of DFID's contribution to the G8 initiative on Open Data for Agriculture, a broad survey of key stakeholders in sustainable African agriculture was conducted to assess current and emerging trends related to data collection, processing, and dissemination.
A total of 281 stakeholders were contacted by email among 11 organizational categories. ...
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