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Benefits of strengthening AGRIS in Europe and Central Asia highlighted in Moscow

28/06/2019

  A regional workshop on “Strengthening the Accessibility and Visibility of Agricultural and Land Data through the Use of Semantics - AGRIS in Europe and Central Asia” was held by FAO in collaboration with the LandPortal Foundation (the Netherlands) in Moscow, 27-28 June 2019, hosted by the Central Scientific Agricultural Library (CSAL). ...

Job Vacancies at the GODAN Secretariat

25/06/2019

The GODAN Secretariat are currently recruiting for two exciting vacancies as part of our new programme of work: Research and Partnerships Lead Application Deadline: 8 July, 2019 Information Systems Lead Application Deadline: 8 July, 2019 Find more information on their Web site here.

Access AGRIS through the FAO Policy Portal

25/06/2019

In order to reinforce the knowledge sharing within FAO, the Governance and Policy Support Unit has integrated AGRIS among its Policy Portal. The FAO corporate Policy Portal provides a single point of access to policy areas of work under the Strategic Framework, with its own thematic “landing pages” and associated ...

Edit News The total AGRIS records reaches 9,978,296 as of May 2019

29/05/2019

The FAO AGRIS team is pleased to inform all AGRIS data providers and users about the AGRIS May 2019 data release As of May 2019, the number of AGRIS multilingual bibliographic records has reached 9,978,296 records The AGRIS team at the FAO of the UN wishes to thank all AGRIS contributors and users! ...

Notes from the Creative Commons Global Summit 2019

27/05/2019

The Creative Commons Global Summit 2019 edition was held from the 9th to the 11th of May 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. The summit ran for 3 days with 6 tracks, 120 sessions and more than 100+ countries represented. The meeting was attended by community members from Africa,  and who are advocates for openness, such as  communities ...