AGROVOC has been updated! We are pleased to announce that 240 terms in different languages were added. The new terms were added as per suggestions from FAO Forestry Dept. and other users; some were identified during mapping AGROVOC to different thesauri. The new version now contains 580 239 terms in 19 languages. Search AGROVOC ...
New E-LIS Governance
E-LIS, not-for-profit/non-commercial project, is organised, managed and maintained by an international team of librarians, with different background. Essentially, the strong part of the repository are the 60 national editors from 44 countries carrying out the quality control of the metadata from the self-archived papers and the submission and ...
Proposal for a Pilot Project on Enhancing Global Open Access to Agricultural Research Publishing
CTA and FAO agree on a common project to enforce the capacities of institutions in ACP countries for open access publishing of scientific and technical knowledge. The project should have two phases:
12 months pilot with 3 selected ...
The Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries (LIFDC) web page has recently been updated.
The new list of the LIFDCs stands at 70 countries, seven less than those in the 2009 LIFDC list. These are: Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Equatorial Guinea, Morocco and Swaziland. All seven graduated from the list having completed the "transitional phase", ...
