AIMS

The Ghana Agricultural Information Network System (GAINS)

13/11/2012

The CIARD Movement has published a report about the Ghana Agricultural Information Network System (GAINS). The report documents the local evidence and lessons learned on the ways in which public research outputs are made truly accessible to audiences in Ghana. This was done through exploration of reports, websites and semi-structured ...

Now online the presentations of the AOS 2012 workshop

13/11/2012

The presentations of the Agricultural Ontology Services (AOS) 2012 Workshop have been uploaded on SlideShare under the AIMS account. An overview of the 18 uploaded slides with links is available on AIMS at aims.fao.org/aos-workshop/2012. Members of the AIMS team held and participated in the following presentations: John Fereira, Valeria ...

AgriOcean DSpace presented at the recent VOA3R Workshop!

11/11/2012

AgriOcean DSpace was presented at the recent workshop on Open Access and Agricultural Repositories held in Limassol, Cyprus, in October 18th, 2012 with AgriOcean DSpace: Customized version of DSpace for agricultural and aquatic networks in parallel with developments at Hasselt University. This presentation gave an overview of AgriOcean DSpace features such ...

Institutional Repository Development: A Case Study of KARI and KAINet

11/11/2012

Institutional Repository Development: A Case Study of KARI and KAINet By Richard Kedemi Kenya Agricultural Research Institute   1. Introduction This paper is based on KAINet’s and KARI’s experience and lessons learnt with developing digital repositories using AgriDrupal and AgriOceanDspace. KAINet is a network originally made up of institutions that ...

ICT and producer organizations - online forum 12 to 23 November

08/11/2012

Producer organizations play an important role in tackling the systemic causes of poverty, because they give farmers—men and women—a legitimate voice in shaping pro-poor rural policies.  Producer organizations can function more efficiently by using information communication technologies (ICT) to attract and retain a wider membership, generate more funds, ...