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The Land Portal launched the State of Land Information Report

25/04/2019

The Land Portal launched the State of Land Information Report, which identifies the many sources of land data and information on a country-level and provides the general public with an easy overview. This report on Kenya is part of the recent reports on four countries in East Africa, for example, ...

State of Land Data & Information in East Africa: Catalyzing East Africa's Land Data Ecosystem

25/04/2019

  The workshop on land data and information ecosystem in East Africa has been organized and calls on all stakeholders on land data ecosystem in East Africa to attend.  The theme of the workshop is "State of Land Data & Information in East Africa: Catalyzing East Africa's Land Data Ecosystem"  The overall ...

AGROVOC April 2019 release is out. With 36,169 concepts!

25/04/2019

FAO AGROVOC team takes this opportunity to inform you about the FAO AGROVOC April 2019 release.  See the past AGROVOC releases Browse AGROVOC with SKOSMOS! We want AGROVOC to be useful and relevant for your work. As of April 2019, AGROVOC counts: Number of concepts: 36,169   Number of terms: 718,413  Did you know that ...

GODAN advances Open Data Management in Agriculture, Nutrition and Land

25/04/2019

Players in agriculture are demanding a proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable, and GODAN Action project is advancing just that. This is done in a number of ways, which includes capacity development through online course, data publication help desk, promoting ...

A highlight on the recently held Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) Meeting

25/04/2019

During the just ended Research Data Alliance (RDA) 13th Plenary meeting held in Philadelphia, the Interest Group on Agricultural Data held a parallel session entitled, “Agricultural Data Interoperability : Opportunities and Lessons Learnt from Sharing and Re-Using Data”. This session presented various outputs and contributions from agricultural open data projects and ...