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  • The role of AGROVOC in the discovery of agricultural information and data in the Republic of Moldova

    On 8 June 2021 the second edition of the online Round Table was organized by the Republican Scientific Agricultural Library of the State Agrarian University of Moldova in collaboration with FAO. The round table was dedicated to discussions on facilitating access and increasing the visibility of the Moldovan agricultural scientific results in the context of AGRIS and AGROVOC. During the meeting...

  • FAO cooperates with CGIAR to increase interoperability between food and agricultural information systems

    FAO and CGIAR have established a collaboration to enhance data sharing in the food and agricultural domain through the further use and enhancement of the AGROVOC Thesaurus, a multilingual controlled vocabulary that covers terminology related to FAO’s areas of interest. AGROVOC is a valuable tool to classify data homogeneously, facilitate interoperability and reuse. It can ease the collection...

  • Meet the AGROVOC editorial community

    An interview with Zuzana Horváthová, Information Officer at the Centre of Information Services and Technologies (CISaT) at Agroinštitút Nitra, and part of the AGROVOC editorial community as an editor of Slovak.

  • June 2021: New release of AGROVOC Thesaurus

    The June 2021 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 39 100 concepts and 826 000 terms, in up to 40 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 .