Launched in 2021, the FAO and CGIAR collaboration on increasing interoperability between food and agricultural information systems provides an opportunity for CGIAR to suggest new concepts and terms to the FAO AGROVOC thesaurus. New terminology experts from CGIAR have been integrated in the AGROVOC Editorial Community . The first activity, held online last 16 of February, focused on the latest...

The March 2022 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 40 046 concepts and 931 700 terms, in up to 41 languages. The AGROVOC team thanks all of the AGROVOC editors who have contributed to the addition of concepts, terms and other content. Learn more about the AGROVOC editors here .

FAO is pleased to announce a new collaboration on AGROVOC with the Makerere University , one of the oldest universities in Africa based in Uganda. For many years, Makerere University has actively promoted programmes such as AGORA and AGRIS , in Uganda and in the region. Since 2018, AGROVOC has been expanding its coverage through collaboration with communities of experts to include specialized...

The February 2022 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 39 898 concepts and 929 214 terms, in up to 41 languages. The AGROVOC team thanks all of the AGROVOC editors who have contributed to the addition of concepts, terms and other content. Learn more about the AGROVOC editors here .

In the course of the last 12 months the use of the FAO AGROVOC thesaurus has grown impressively, both for single and multiple resources, with an increase of more than 100% in both cases. Single resources refer for example to a person or a machine accessing a single concept, while multiple resources are sets of resources being accessed by humans or machines. In line with the previous increases, in...