Making learning resources available online on a global scale, could be an enabler for the development and welfare of agricultural and rural populations. One mean to achieve this aim, is the development and promotion of a global infrastructure that will facilitate sharing and reusing of learning resources on topics related to agricultural and rural development. To this end, the experience of stakeholders that are involved in the development and operation of agricultural learning repositories would be of extreme value. These stakeholders can promote and share guidance, standards, technologies, tools, recommendations, and good practices in a variety of topics: Designing, Developing, Adapting, and Repurposing Learning Resources; Setting up Learning Repositories using Open Standards and Technologies; Populating Learning Repositories with Reusable Learning Resources and Interoperable Metadata; Designing and Implementing a variety of Quality Assurance Procedures and Criteria for Learning Resources; Inter-connecting Learning Repositories in Global Federations to share and exchange Resources and Metadata; and Deploying Regional Portals that provide Access to Learning Resources in Repositories around the world through Federated Services.The aim of the e-Conference on Agricultural Learning Repositories (AgLR 2008) is to initiate the dialogue around these topics, involving organizations and individuals that are active in the field of agricultural learning repositories. The AgLR 2008 e-Conference is going to be an electronically facilitated discussion that will take place through a DGroups mailing list. It is the first of a series of events that are supported and promoted by the Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force.