Organized by the Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) , the 5th Annual AGROVOC Editorial Community Meeting took place online on Tuesday 19 July 2022, bringing together 50 participants from more than 20 countries and organizations. The main objectives of the meeting were to revise the work carried out during the last months and to define...

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...

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...

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 .

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...