On 22 May 2024, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted a webinar to demonstrate to Research4Life and AGORA users how to improve article findability with controlled vocabulary. Nearly 200 participants from 80 countries attended the highly impactful webinar, which focused on FAO's valuable multilingual controlled vocabulary, AGROVOC, and ...

The webinar titled  “AGROVOC: making research more visible across languages” was held on 5 December and was intended to highlight FAO’s valuable multilingual controlled vocabulary, AGROVOC, and how it can impact multilingual research through AGORA.Research4Life recently integrated AGROVOC as a “reference source” in the AGORA collection. This webinar ...

The "Unlocking AGORA: Access, Utilization, and Troubleshooting for Enhanced Research" webinar was held on 19 September 2023. It was intended for both prospective and present users of the Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) platform. AGORA is a powerful digital platform that gives professionals and scholars access to a wide ...

The FAO Science and Innovation Forum side event “Access to Scientific Information in the Global South: Partnering for Action,” took place on 12 October 2022.The panel was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the World Health Organization (WHO), Elsevier ...

Imma Subirats introduces AGRIS and its composition, outlines the evolution of its content and its usage statistics before focusing on the latest developments, including the partnership with ICARDA, findings from the AGRIS data provider survey, new and upcoming publications and capacity development activities, both completed and planned. Imma also highlights ...

Valentina De Col and Hrijoy Bhattacharjee describe the AGRIS Network, including its evolution over the decades since the 1970s, its current composition in terms of the kinds of organizations comprising it, before moving on to describe the benefits of being part of the network and the process of joining it. ...

The most recent webinar part of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group for Agricultural Data (IGAD)’s new Coffee Break initiative took place on 22 September titled Data innovation and semantics are crucial to the future of animal health and featured Georgina Cherry, from the Veterinary Health Innovation Engine (vHive) team ...

The fourth webinar part of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group for Agricultural Data (IGAD)’s new Coffee Break initiative took place on 8 September. The webinar, titled 'Supporting Open Data in agriculture with F1000Research' featured Guillaume Wright from F1000Research.  F1000Research is an open research publishing platform with ...

The third webinar part of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group for Agricultural Data (IGAD)’s new Coffee Break initiative took place on 14 July. The webinar, titled Introduction to the Georgian Farmers' Association featured Ketevan Gogotchuri from the Georgian Farmers’ Association (GFA).  The Georgian Farmers’ Association (GFA) was founded in 2012. ...

The second webinar as part of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group for Agricultural Data (IGAD)’s new Coffee Break initiative took place on 30 June with more than 25 participants. The webinar, titled Agricultural market dynamics based on data evidence, featured Luiza Petrosyan from the Universitat Politécnica de Valencia. Throughout ...