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  • Save the date! FAO Science and Innovation Forum - Side event

    Access to Scientific Information in the Global South: Partnering for Action 12 October 2022 - 11:00-12:30 CEST The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is pleased to invite you to the side event titled “ Access to Scientific Information in the Global South: Partnering for Action ”. This side event has been organized in the framework of the FAO Science and Innovation Forum...

  • The update of the AGROVOC Brochure 2022

    We are pleased to announce that the new version of the AGROVOC brochure has been published in 26 languages. The brochure presents AGROVOC, the FAO multilingual thesaurus which covers all areas o f FAO’s work and helps to standardize data and make them more discoverable. The list of institutions collaborating and editing AGROVOC has also been updated. We would like to thank all editors who...

  • September 2022: New release of the AGROVOC Thesaurus

    The September 2022 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 40 500 concepts and 955 000 terms, in up to 41 languages. AGROVOC thanks all the editors who have contributed to the addition of concepts, terms and other content. Learn more about the AGROVOC editors here .

  • Webinar about CGIAR contribution to the AGROVOC Thesaurus

    On 21 June CGIAR and FAO held a joint webinar on the CGIAR contribution to the AGROVOC, the multilingual structured thesaurus for subject fields related to FAO’s areas of interest. Established in June last year, the collaboration between CGIAR and FAO on AGROVOC aims to increase interoperability between food and agricultural information systems. As a first step the CGIAR Task Group was set up to...

  • July 2022: New release of the AGROVOC Thesaurus

    The July 2022 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 40 300 concepts and 953 000 terms, in up to 41 languages. AGROVOC thanks all the editors who have contributed to the addition of concepts, terms and other content. Learn more about the AGROVOC editors here .