Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice Second IGAD Annual Virtual Meeting 2022 - Recap   Nearly 400 participants took part in the Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice (CoP) Second Annual Virtual Meeting, which took place from March 22 and April 8, 2022. The 2022 virtual meeting was able to successfully provide an ...

by Irene Ramos Pérez, CONABIO As part of the Mexican Agrobiodiversity GEF project, the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) is developing an Agrobiodiversity Information System (SIAgro), with FAO as the implementing agency. SIAgro gathers diverse data on native crops in traditional agriculture, including biological, ...

The 50x2030 Initiative is sponsoring its second competition for novel research projects that use 50x2030 data. Small grants – from US $1,000-$8,000 – will be issued for projects that employ 50x2030 survey data to generate practical research that can be applied to national policymaking, program (re)design or investment decisions. The Initiative ...

The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), CIRAD (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development), and the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters of Benin (ANSALB) have joined forces to organize the second edition of "Open Science in the South" conference event, which will be held in Cotonou ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) promotes the exchange of scientific research and technical knowledge related to all aspects of food and agriculture. During the past years FAO and The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) collaborated on promoting the work that FAO delivers on metadata and ...