FAO and ICARDA bring you: Information 4 Innovation in Food and Agriculture (I4IFA) Increasing the quality and effectiveness of knowledge management and data exchange for food and agriculture A week-long learning opportunity: 29 June – 3 July 2020 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ( ICARDA )...

A recording of the webinar, ‘ Strengthening AGROVOC through engagement with expert communities ,’ organized by the Ontologies Community of Practice of the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture is now available. During this webinar, the AGROVOC Team from the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) of the United Nations introduce how to keep AGROVOC up to date with a number of institutions...

At the most recent IGAD Online Virtual Meeting (25 to 28 May 2020), more than 350 IGAD members participated in a series of sessions dedicated to IGAD/RDA : Sharing Experiences and Creating Digital Dialogues . There was a special focus on semantics, crop data interoperability and experiences and lessons learnt from Asia, Europe, Africa and Americas, producing many interesting results and...

The June 2020 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released now boasting 37,273 concepts and 752,445 terms , now in up to 39 languages . The AGROVOC team wishes to thank all of the AGROVOC editors, helping to contribute to the addition of concepts, terms and languages. Learn more information about the AGROVOC editors here . Recently, following a request for more specific terminology on COVID...

Since 2018, the AGROVOC editorial community has met twice to consider new technical possibilities and set priorities for the further development of AGROVOC. In June 2018, a meeting in Utrecht (The Netherlands), organized jointly with the Land Portal Foundation , brought together 25 participants from 18 institutions in 14 countries to review the status of editorial policies and prepare an upgrade...