The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is now using the CKAN data management system to share releases of AGROVOC , its multilingual thesaurus, and AGRIS , the platform promoting accessibility of scientific information and digital data in food and agriculture. CKAN is an open-source software, with an active community of contributors who develop and maintain its core technology, that will make...

The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is an international organization undertaking research-for-development to provide innovative, science-based agricultural solutions that improve the livelihoods resilience of rural dryland communities. ICARDA is a member of CGIAR Research Center. In 2016 ICARDA launched the Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning (MEL)...

The April 2021 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 38 780 concepts and 808 000 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 .

Since the 1980s, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) manages and publishes the AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus, which thematically covers FAO’s areas of interest with more than 39 000 concepts and 800 000 terms organized hierarchically. When launched, AGROVOC was made available in three languages – English, Spanish and French – and its purpose was to serve as a...

The March 2021 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 38 600 concepts and 806 000 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 .