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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 ...

APPLY NOW: CGIAR’s 2019 Inspire Challenge awarding up to 750,000 USD for innovative big data solutions that transform lives of smallholder farmers

23/05/2019

Repost as shared The 2019 launch of CGIAR’s Inspire Challenge is great news for innovators looking to transform the agriculture sector, with smallholder farmers in the lead. The CGIAR Inspire Challenge is the innovation process of the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture and seeks to source and foster ...

AGRIS now facilitates access to open datasets

22/05/2019

The AGRIS team is pleased to announce that AGRIS users can now explicitly search for datasets on the AGRIS website. This new function comes with access to the inaugural 1,528 datasets that were added to AGRIS. The initial datasets are from providers like the Agricultural Research Service of the United States ...

Research4Life workshop focuses on the information resources related to land.

22/05/2019

During the recent “State of Land Data & Information in East Africa: Catalyzing East Africa's Land Data Ecosystem”, 8-10th May in Nairobi, Kenya Research4Life held on the 10th of May a workshop that presented the Research4Life programmes, and focusing on information resources related to legal resources and land. ...