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Nearly 200 participants, representing up to 80 countries, attend FAO AGORA’s “Enhancing Article Findability in Agricultural Sciences with AGROVOC Thesaurus” webinar on 22 May, 2024

28/05/2024

On 22 May 2024, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted a webinar to demonstrate to Research4Life and AGORA users how to improve article findability with controlled vocabulary. Nearly 200 participants from 80 countries attended the highly impactful webinar, which focused on FAO's valuable multilingual controlled vocabulary, AGROVOC, and ...

Registration is now open for a webinar on “Enhancing Article Findability in Agricultural Sciences with AGROVOC Thesaurus” on 22 May 2024 at 14:00 CEST

14/05/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is set to host a webinar on 22 May 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 ...

FAO's AGRIS Webinar Series Empowering Agricultural Collaboration in South Africa

10/05/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through its International System for Agricultural Science and Technology (AGRIS) and the FAO Representation in South Africa, recently inaugurated a webinar series to introduce participants to the AGRIS database and AGRIS Network. Welcoming over 90 participants from diverse African research, government, ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is revolutionising Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) with a new platform increasing interactivity, engagement and completion rates

07/05/2024

To revolutionise Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and enhance access to knowledge worldwide, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is utilising a new platform to create a series of interactive and engaging online courses. This platform makes online courses more concise and time-efficient, enhancing the overall ...

Research Data Alliance 22nd Plenary - Attend the session "Addressing agricultural data ethics, agrisemantics and AI"

01/05/2024

The 22nd plenary of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) will take place virtually from 14 to 23 May.All experts and practitioners interested in agricultural data are invited to attend the session organized by the Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice titled "Addressing agricultural data ethics, agrisemantics and AI".Dates ...