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  • How the Sustainable Development Goals will help us achieve Zero Hunger

    This essay focuses upon the issue of How the Sustainable Development Goals will help us achieve Zero Hunger which is discussed in the ‘2016 Global Hunger Index: Getting to Zero Hunger’ book published by IFPRI in 2016._____________________________________________________________________________________________________“795 million people are going hungry. We demand: Nobody should have to suffer from hunger!” (Hunger ...
  • AgriProfiles : Global Networking for Agriculture through metadata and standard vocabularies

    AgriProfiles is a search portal giving access to profiles of experts and organizations in the field of agriculture, bridging across separately hosted directories and online communities. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________AgriProfiles portal - formerly AgriVIVO (launched in 2013) - is led by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), in collaboration with Cornell University and ...
  • BigDataEurope : Societal Challenge 2. FAO’s engagement, recent developments and steps forward

     The three-year (2015-2018) EU Horizon 2020 BigDataEurope (BDE) project aims to undertake foundational work to publish, manage, integrate, distribute and use of multi-lingual and semantically interoperable large-scale data assets and knowledge. The Food and Agriculture H2020 societal challenge of this project is tackled by FAO of the United Nations and Agroknow._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ...
  • PPgis.net : exchange of information about geospatial information technologies

    PPgis.net is an open discussion forum that facilitates the exchange of information about geospatial information technologies (GIT) used in crisis management, participatory development, sustainable natural resource management and customary property rights in developing countries and among indigenous peoples worldwide._____________________________________________________________________________________________________The term Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) was coined at the ...
  • LICENTIA: a web site to Choose the License for your Data

     LICENTIA is a suite of web services to help in the process of choosing the most suitable license depending on the data to be licensed. This website does not provide legal advice. The information provided by LICENTIA are automatically generated._____________________________________________________________________________________________________“Data without explicit license is a potential legal liability and ...