INASP’s 20th Anniversary Symposium takes place today, the 20th of June, 2012. State of the art of research communication and uptake for development Drawing on the expertise of INASP partners from around the world, the Symposium will explore the state of the art of research communication and research uptake for ...

Today the Regional Expert Consultation on Opening Access to Agricultural Information in Africa started. The consultation takes place in Accra, Ghana from 19-21 June, 2012 and is jointly organized by the Forum on Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), The Global Forum on Agricultural research (GFAR) and FAO. Follow the RAILS-CIARD Africa ...

The Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) has recently joined CIARD. The Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) is a partnership-based initiative to disseminate agricultural research data more efficiently and make it publicly available and accessible to all. GFRAS provides advocacy and leadership on pluralistic, demand-driven ...

The agINFRA Science Gateway, developed by the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics in the context of the EU funded agINFRA project, has been released online at http://aginfra-sg.ct.infn.it/ and has been registered as an official Service Provider for both the Chinese CARSI and the Spanish SIR ...

On June 13 and 14, during the International Smartagrimatics Conference a workshop on "Semantic Web and Ontologies in Agrifood". The AIMs team (Johannes Keizer) gave a presentation with the title "Creating Knowledge Bases by annotating large amounts of unstructured data using RDF triples and the AGROVOC concept scheme - the agHARVEST project" . ...