Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is set to host a webinar on 10 December 2024 at 14:00 CET to demonstrate how to improve article findability with controlled vocabularies. FAO’s valuable multilingual controlled vocabulary, AGROVOC, will be used as a use case in this webinar, which will be held in English. The webinar titled “Enhancing Article Findability in Agricultural Sciences with AGROVOC Thesaurus,” will have a focus on “Rural Transformation and Gender Equality”. 

Participants of this webinar will learn in-depth strategies for optimising the findability of data with controlled vocabularies, including:

• Gaining a comprehensive understanding of controlled vocabulary and its significance in organising and retrieving information in agricultural sciences;
• Becoming familiar with the AGROVOC thesaurus;
• Learning about the hierarchical structure of AGROVOC, including concepts, preferred terms, and relationships;
• Understanding how to leverage AGROVOC to improve the findability and visibility of articles in agricultural sciences;
• Acquiring knowledge of effective search strategies with AGROVOC;
• Learning best practices for integrating AGROVOC into their research workflow, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and interoperability in applying AGROVOC terms.

This is the fifth webinar in the series. Throughout the “Enhancing Article Findability in Agricultural Sciences with AGROVOC Thesaurus” series, each webinar will focus on a different discipline within FAO’s areas of interest, allowing specific examples to be utilised throughout the webinar. The fifth webinar will focus on “Rural Transformation and Gender Equality.”

Research4Life recently integrated AGROVOC as a “reference source” in the Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) collection. Therefore, this webinar will provide in-depth information about how to access and use AGROVOC through the AGORA collection and the impact it can make on multilingual research for students, researchers, or professionals looking to take advantage of AGORA's extensive resources.

The webinar is intended for both prospective and present users of the AGORA platform.

Interested participants can register for the webinar here: https://fao.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpc-CsqTwrGtR9YLR_yhssCOpSWfJmN6Ue 

Save-the-Date for SOFA 2024.

The new 2024 edition of the State of Food and Agriculture in the World (SOFA) will be launched on Friday, 8th November 2024 from 12.30pm CET (Rome time). The report looks into value-driven transformation of agrifood systems, where we refine the global estimates of the "hidden costs" of agrifood systems, and take a look at case studies using true cost accounting (TCA) to break down the hidden costs on our health, the environment and society.  

Interpretation will be provided in all 6 UN languages: 

• Register on Zoom here: https://fao.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p2S0FeutSQ6CW0zDmu_kkQ#/registration
• Or watch on web cast here on the day: https://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/6777/icode/
• And see previous editions of the SOFA reports here: https://www.fao.org/publications/sofa

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