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RDA EU Early Career Researchers And Expert Travel Grants For The 14th RDA Plenary in Helsinki

02/08/2019

RDA continues its series of support programmes for data researchers and practitioners and is now running open calls to facilitate participation of 9 RDA Early Career Researchers and 7 Expert RDA members to the 14th RDA Plenary meeting in Helsinki. Apply by 16 August 17.00 CEST. Work with the RDA community on global data ...

FAO & ITU E-agriculture in Action: Big Data for Agriculture

26/07/2019

In continuation of our efforts to promote sustainable ICTs for agriculture and to share knowledge on emerging technologies that holds great promise for agriculture,the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have released the next in the series of E-agriculture in ...

Strengthening the Accessibility and Visibility of Agricultural and Land Data through the Use of Semantics - AGRIS in Europe and Central Asia

24/07/2019

Moscow, 27-28 June 2019 The aim of the workshop was to discuss thematic topics and cross cutting topics on management, use and further developments related to AGRIS. Also, to look at the use of AGRIS, in particular in the context of research data in agriculture and land, with the objectives of ...

AGRIS July 2019 data release

24/07/2019

We are pleased to inform you that, with the AGRIS data release in July2019, AGRIS has reached 10,092,143 records. The next AGRIS data release will take place in September 2019. All data received during August will be included in this release. We thank all AGRIS data providers for their contributions!

The world is off-track to meet most of the SDGs linked to hunger, food security and nutrition.

18/07/2019

FAO today released a report on the indicators under its custodianship.  In the first report of its kind, FAO analysed, in a visual way, major global trends and data from up to 234 countries and territories on 18 indicators of four SDGs (2, 6, 14 and 15) under FAO’s custodianship. The report is available from: ...