The "Innovative Collaboration for Development" online tutored  course is an initiative of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It focuses on capacitating development professionals to adequately use ...

Summary The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has more than 50 yeas of experience in the collection, production and the diffusion of information on agriculture and related sciences. To facilitate access to FAO publications the Organization has implemented two document repositories: the FAO Online Catalogue (FAODOC) and ...

AIMS invites you to share your experiences in the implementation of intitutional repositories in the agricultural domain. Our first contribution comes from Botswana where Poloko Ntokwane at the Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA) has implemented an institutional repository using Greenstone. In the article Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA) Institutional Repository ...

By Poloko Ntokwane The Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA) was established on 31st May 1991. The college is a parastatal under the Ministry of Agriculture and an associate institution of the University of Botswana. It offers programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in five academic departments, namely; Animal Science and Production, ...

AgriOcean Dspace is a joint initiative of the United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE to provide a customized version of DSpace using high standards for metadata, thesauri and other controlled vocabularies in oceanography, marine science, food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and other related sciences. The best ...