AIMS

Workshop "AGROVOC management and applications, using VocBench" for the South and Southeast Asian region

06/10/2011

FAO and ICRISAT organized jointly a 3-day workshop on "AGROVOC management and applications, using VocBench" for AGROVOC managers and editors from the South and Southeast Asian region. The workshop will take place from 12-14 October 2011 at ICRISAT in Hyderabad, India. Themes The workshop will focus on: thesauri and concepts schemes (...

FAO Country Profiles Newsletter No. 09

05/10/2011

The 9th newsletter of the FAO Country Profiles is now available. This edition gives a focus on key statistics from FAOSTAT, the world's largest and most comprehensive statistical database on food and agriculture. The newsletter also features the FAO Projects in the country, published by the Technical Cooperation Department of ...

New article 'Multilinguality in AGROVOC Concept Scheme'

04/10/2011

The AGROVOC group of AIMS wrote the article 'Multilinguality in AGROVOC Concept Scheme: Challenges and Experiences' in collaboration with MIMOS Berhardin Malaysia, the National Institute of Plant Health Management (NIPHM) in India and Kasetsart Universityin Thailand. This publication can be found in the FAO Corporate Document Repository: http://www.fao....

Public library in Serbia helps farmers to increase their product sales

04/10/2011

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme(PLIP) supports libraries to implement community development projects. In May 2010 PLIP supported with a grant the ‘Agrolib-Ja’ project of the Public library Radislav Nikčević in central Serbia. After a year, impact assessment demonstrates that the new services accomplished remarkable results. Please take a ...

New BLDS Digital Library is putting developing country research online

03/10/2011

With so many library users now expecting to access information through search engines, developing country publications tend to get overlooked in favour of the wealth of research available online from American and European academic institutions.   The British Library for Development Studies The British Library for Development Studies(BLDS) has the ...