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The world rice harvest for 2012 is expected to surpass the strong showing of 2011 as the erratic climate conditions caused by the La Nina weather phenomenon dissipate and farmers increase their pla...
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03/05/12
Today the migration of the AIMS content to the upgraded version of the AIMS website has started. Therefore AIMS will be temporarily frozen. This means there will be no new content published until a...
03/05/12
The AIMS team presented the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) movement at last week's 13th Biennial USAIN Conference, April 29 - May 2, 2012, in Minneapoli...
01/05/12
Research4Life published its strategic plan "Beyond the 2015 Horizon". It outlines the five strategic goals for the next five years and is based on the findings and recommendations of detailed exter...
30/04/12
Wageningen developed databases of publications by the different units that were to merge into Wageningen University and Resea...
27/04/12
From the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) thesaurus 1812 concepts have been linked to the AGROVOC LOD.
"Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts" thesaurus
The ASFA The...
26/04/12
Stagnating productivity growth of wheat, one of the two most important staple foods in Asia, threatens to create a food security crisis in the world’s most populous region, according to the Food an...
26/04/12
Wikiversity contains learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles...
26/04/12
The AGROVOC team added 885 new German terms and 765 new Malay terms to the Vocbench. These terms are now browsable on AIMS.
Suggest new terms
The AGROVOC thesaurus contains more than...
24/04/12
The "2nd Ministerial Dialogue on Agriculture, Science and Technology" was held successfully on 18-19 April 2012 at the Forum for Agricultural research in Africa (FARA) Secretariat in Accra, Ghana....
24/04/12
The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) was established in 1947 by the Government of India under Ministry of Agriculture with headquarters at...
23/04/12
ALLEA, All European Academies, released on April 11th the Declaration "Open Science for the 21st century" to acknowledge Open Access as part of the future of Open Science.
The declaration des...
19/04/12
In March 2011 an online worldwide survey was conducted by CGIAR, FAO and GFAR on behalf of the CIARD initiative to explore and identify the benefits and incentives for researchers and scientists to...
18/04/12
Rolnicza Biblioteka Cyfrowa (Agricultural Digital Library) is a digital repository for the...
17/04/12
Beyond Access released a new report showing how libraries are helping to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Each of the eight MDGs is illustrated by stories from different libraries aro...
16/04/12
The 11th newsletter of the FAO Country Profiles is now available. This edition includes an article focusing on information from the field available in the FAO Country Profiles, such as news, events...
16/04/12
Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)
Newsletter
no. 10, April 2012
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12/04/12
The FAO Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture has been integrated into the AGROVOC Linked Open Data (LOD) set, adding 791 triples.
Biotechnology Glossary
The Biotechnolog...
11/04/12
The renovation of the Thuan An port in Viet Nam’s Thua Thien Hue province will benefit fishers, traders and consumers in the province by improving - starting from today - the hygiene of fisheries p...
11/04/12
Currently the CIARD Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING) contains 278 services/sources and 141 providers that share information related to agricultural research and innovation for deve...
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