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  • Spotlight on the latest Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) Meeting

    During the recently ended Research Data Alliance (RDA) 14th Plenary meeting held in Helsinki, the Interest Group on Agricultural Data held a parallel session focusing on IGAD/RDA Recommendations: Implementing Good Practices in Agriculture. This session presented various outputs and contributions from agricultural open data projects and other initiatives consuming ...
  • GODAN Webinar – Open data: The drive to food security

    November 18, 2019 at 3:00 PM CET. Register here. Open data policy helps farmers to access data and information on weather, market prices and agricultural inputs thereby improving farmer productivity and reducing key constraints. In this webinar, Sipiwe Manjengwa will discuss several opportunities and initiatives in Zimbabwe, where farmers access open data and ...
  • AGRIS reaches 10,263,691 bibliographic records! (November 2019)

    The FAO AGRIS team is pleased to inform all AGRIS data providers and users about the AGRIS November 2019 data release As of November 2019, the number of AGRIS multilingual bibliographic records has reached 10,263,691 records! 56,875 new records have been added, of which: 54,690 coming from Agricola of the United States National Agricultural Library 2,185 ...
  • Call for Contributions: UNSCN Nutrition 45 – Nutrition in a Digital World

    UNSCN Nutrition is the peer-reviewed journal published by the UNSCN. The 45th edition, published in 2020 will focus on the theme ‘Nutrition in a Digital World’. The Internet and other digital technologies have dramatically changed the world as we knew it just ten years ago. Information and data are being produced, ...