AGRIS and CARIS Participating Centres
Rome, Italy
8 - 11 June 1998
TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations
Introduction
Convening of the meeting and general aims
Participants
Agenda item 1 - Opening of the Consultation and introductory statement -
Related meetings
Agenda item 2 - Election of the Officers
Agenda item 3 - Adoption of the Agenda
Agenda item 4 - Presentation of WAICENT
Agenda item 5 - Presentations on the information management activities within the respective countries and institutions
Agenda Item 6 - Presentation of the findings of the Expert Consultation on the redesign of AGRIS and CARIS
Agenda Item 7 - Scope and mandate of the new AGRIS and CARIS information systems
in view of current priorities set by Member Nations.
Discussions
Conclusions and Recommendations
Agenda item 8 - Date and place of next meeting
Agenda item 9 - Any other business
Appendix A - List of Participants - Liste des participants - Lista de los participantes
Appendix B - Agenda
ABBREVIATIONS
AGRIS International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology
AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus of Agricultural Terminology
APU AGRIS Processing Unit
CARIS Current Agricultural Research Information System
CABI Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International
CD-ROM Compact Disk Read-only-Memory
CDS-ISIS Data base management software developed by UNESCO
CONICYT Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
CTA Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation
IAALD International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists
ICIE Institute for Computer and Information Engineering
IFIS International Food Information Services
ISMEA Istituto per Studi, Richerche, e Informazioni sul Mercato Agricolo
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
NAL National Agricultural Library
SPAAR Special Program for African Agricultural Research, World Bank
WAICENT World Agricultural Information Centre
REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS
INTRODUCTION
Convening of the meeting and general aims
Attendance at this Fourth Technical Consultation of AGRIS and CARIS Participating Centres was invited by the Director-General of FAO in his circular letter (Ref. G/X/GIL-803) dated 3 April 1998, addressed to all the Member Nations of FAO, and to international and other institutions participating in or cooperating with, AGRIS and/or CARIS.
The general aims of the Consultation were to discuss and deliberate on the findings and recommendations proposed by the Expert Consultation on the Redesign of AGRIS and CARIS held in January 1998. The Expert Consultation emphasized the support for "a shift in emphasis from data processing to information dissemination...with new focus on developing processing capacities in the Member Nations and enabling countries to develop national umbrella information management programmes similar to WAICENT". Furthermore, there was unanimous endorsement of the notion that AGRIS and CARIS should now evolve to make full use of modern information management and technology tools. As a result, the Expert Consultation concluded that both AGRIS and CARIS are now facing a strategic moment in their lives where important issues need to be addressed and decisions taken.
As a follow-up to the Expert Consultation, FAO prepared a number of studies and proposals, which were also submitted to the Technical Consultation for review and consideration.
Participants
Agenda item 1 - Opening of the Consultation and introductory statement
The Consultation was opened by Mr F. B. Zenny, Assistant Director-General of the General Affairs and Information Department of FAO who gave the floor to Mr David A. Harcharik, Deputy Director-General of FAO who delivered the opening speech. In welcoming the participants Mr Harcharik congratulated and thanked the participating centres for all that they had done over the past 23 years to make AGRIS and CARIS the extremely useful systems which they are today. Mr Harcharik pointed out that developments in information technology have dramatically changed the environment in which AGRIS and CARIS are operating and that while the systems provide easy economical access to such information under a common format and an integrated database they have not entirely achieved the key objective of providing a platform for developing sustainable information management capacities within participating countries. The Deputy Director-General expressed FAO's firm belief that a new AGRIS structure should focus on developing information management capacities, particularly in bodies such as ministries of agriculture, statistical bureaux, agricultural universities and colleges, chambers of agriculture, FAO national committees, national private sector fora and parliamentary committees on agriculture, to mention just a few. This could be accomplished by strengthening the role of AGRIS as an information exchange network to provide data and knowledge on sustainable agricultural development which could include the establishment of viable working partnerships to facilitate the exchange of global and local information and "know-how" in a transnational way. He outlined the proposals which were to be presented during the Technical Consultation which would favour and facilitate the objectives set. The Deputy Director-General then discussed FAO's suggestion that the focus of AGRIS should perhaps shift from a centralized data processing system to a decentralized network of information exchange, based on Internet and related modern information technologies where each participating centre is in charge of, and responsible for, the information which it owns and has collected. Participating members would have access to new modern tools which would allow them to input, analyse, process and disseminate their own data using their own capacities. Mr Harcharik reassured participants that such changes, if endorsed by the Technical Consultation, would be implemented in a phased way that would ease the transition period for AGRIS. Mr Harcharik told the Technical Consultation that achieving the objectives would require their active participation and enthusiastic support. He called upon the participants to examine and evaluate the proposals made and to deliberate over their merit and value. Mr Harcharik closed his address by reiterating his warm welcome to the participants and assuring them that FAO valued their time and advice, and was confident that their counsel during the next four days would launch an exciting new era for AGRIS.
Agenda item 2 - Election of the officers Ms Pamela André (National Agricultural Library - NAL, USA) was elected Chairperson of the meeting, Ms Anna Maria Prat (Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica - CONICYT, Chile) Vice-Chairperson, Ms Helena Slezakova, (Institute of Agriculture and Food Information, Czech Republic) Rapporteur and Mr Stephen Katz (Chief, WAICENT/FAOINFO, FAO) Secretary. Mr Zenny handed the Chair to Ms Pamela André and the elected officers assumed their roles.
Agenda item 3 - Adoption of the Agenda The Agenda was adopted and is attached as Appendix B.
Agenda item 4 - Presentation of WAICENT Mr Perez-Trejo, WAICENT Manager, FAO gave a brief outline of current WAICENT activities and developments (http://www.fao.org). The WAICENT information services provide FAO with a platform through which it can organize and disseminate its vast agricultural information resources and play a key role in providing relevant agricultural information. WAICENT provides a means for member countries to access agricultural information and through using the most up-to-date technologies, such as Internet, has facilitated FAO’s decentralization process in order to improve its efficiency in servicing the needs of member countries. A number of corporate information tools have been set up as part of WAICENT including FAOSTAT statistical services, FAOINFO providing textual and hypermedia services, and FAOSIS providing access to information systems. All these tools have been designed for enabling access to FAO’s information resources. Through WAICENT FAO is now able to cost-efficiently disseminate its information in Arabic, English, French and Spanish, work is currently being carried out on also providing the services in Chinese. Furthermore, to not exclude those countries or regions where Internet is not available, WAICENT produces a set of CD-ROMs, including the FAOSTAT CD-ROM, AGRIS and CARIS CD-ROMs and the FAO on the Internet CD-ROM. WAICENT has also developed internal networks and links within the FAO offices around the world which is referred to as the "Intranet". Agenda item 5 - Presentations on the information management activities within the respective countries and institutions A number of representatives from countries and institutions made presentations on their respective information management systems and relevant developments in order to provide the Technical Consultation with a wider panorama within which to consider and compare the proposals presented for the redesigning of AGRIS and CARIS. The presentations dealt with a number of areas which were discussed by the Consultation and, where appropriate, included in the recommendations. The following presentations were delivered:
- Ms Pamela André, Director of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), USA, (http://www.nalusda.gov) gave an account of the latest developments in Agricultural information systems in the United States as reported by NAL. She also informed the Consultation that the Agricola database would be available on the Internet by the end of June 1998.
- Mr Rybinski and Mr Muraszkiewicz both professors at the Institute for Computer and Information Engineering (ICIE), Poland, (http://www.icie.com.pl) demonstrated a prototype of a National Agricultural Information System which includes AGRIS and AGROVOC using CDS-ISIS technology with a web interface.
- Mr Luca Caligara of the Institute for Studies, Research and Information on the Agro-Food Market (ISMEA), Italy, (http://www.ismea.it) presented an example of an integrated web-based agricultural information system, including AGRIS. Mr Caligara noted that for the purposes of ISMEA, the number of subject categories were narrowed down from over 100 to 18.
- Mr Zimba of the Ministry of Agriculture, Zambia gave an outline of Zambia’s Internet based project information system which includes information on experiments carried out in the country and results obtained.
- Ms Monica Blaumueller of World Space Corporation, USA (http://www.worldsapce.com) talked about the value of netcasting technologies using digital transmissions for radio signals and data. Ms Blaumueller also held a number of workshops for the participants during the four day period in order to describe the netscasting principle in more detail.
- Helga Schmid of the AGRIS Processing Unit (APU) in Vienna gave an outline of recent activities and statistics in the APU.
The Consultation and Secretariat expressed their thanks to the presenters for the work they had put into preparing their presentation and acknowledged that concrete experiences such as those described provided examples from which to draw on in deciding the future of AGRIS and CARIS at both the national and transnational levels. At the end of the concluding day the Chairperson invited the participants at the Consultation to deliver a brief outline of the activities within the sphere of AGRIS/CARIS if they wished to do so. The following participants accepted this invitation and delivered brief accounts of the work which their institutions are carrying out:
Mr Colin Ogbourne of Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International (CABI) (http://www.cabi.org/index.htm); Mr John Metcalfe of International Food Information Services (IFIS) (http://www.ifis.org); Ms Sonia Elso of the Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Chile; Mr Jan Van der Burg of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) (http://www.lib.montana.edu/~alijk/IAALD.html); Mr Peter Pee of the Special Program for African Agricultural Research (SPAAR) of the World Bank (http://www.worldbank.org/html/aftsr/spaar.htm). Agenda item 6 - Presentation of the findings of the Expert Consultation on the Redesign of AGRIS and CARIS Ms Elizabeth Goldberg presented on behalf of the other panel members the findings of the Expert Consultation of the redesign of AGRIS/CARIS to the Technical Consultation. The Expert Consultation was convened at the invitation of the Director-General to re-evaluate the AGRIS and CARIS systems with a view to bringing them into line with the current needs of those involved in agricultural research and development and to make recommendations for consideration during this Technical Consultation of AGRIS and CARIS Participating Centres. Ms Goldberg told the Technical Consultation that AGRIS and CARIS had, since their establishment, focused on i) providing complementary coverage, in particular, of national grey literature not cited in other international indexing or cataloguing databases and ii) on capturing information on agricultural research projects in developing countries. In addition, in many FAO member countries, the AGRIS and CARIS databases and associated tools and services have served as a catalyst for the development of national and regional agricultural information services. On behalf of the panel she recognized and commended the entire staff of the AGRIS and CARIS Processing Units for their considerable effort, dedication and quality work over the years providing database services to Member Nations. Ms Goldberg went on to tell the Technical Consultation of the problematic areas which needed to be addressed, such as the lack of input from Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa and the doubtful cost-effectiveness of the system due to the very heavy expenditure that FAO incurs in managing the data received from the input centres. She also reported that the panel acknowledged that AGRIS is facing a fundamental shift in paradigm propelled by matching user demands for information coupled with the explosive development of attractive dissemination technologies easily within the grasp of many end-users. Ms Goldberg went on to inform the Technical Consultation of the recommendations made by the Expert Consultation:
- the AGRIS/CARIS systems should be redirected in support of a more general role in improving the production, management, accessibility and dissemination of agricultural information, with priority attention given to the countries most in need,
- FAO should take the lead in facilitating access to information for those countries not linked to the Internet and promote wider access by developing countries to agricultural information from all relevant sources in multiple formats,
- the biannual consultation, should continue to be held under a revised format, becoming a congress of active participants in the system and other players from the international agricultural information world.
For further references please see the Report and Recommendations of the Expert Consultation on the Redesign of AGRIS and CARIS, held in Rome, from 12 to 15 January 1998 (for a copy of this report please consult the FAO web site. Mr Thiendou Niang of the Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et Rurale (CTA), (http://www.agricta.org/ctahome.htm) Netherlands, also made a number of references to the findings of the Expert Consultation on the Redesign of AGRIS and CARIS during his presentation on the work carried out by his organization in the field of information management. Mr Niang focused on the importance of capacity building during his presentation and fully supported the recommendations made by the Expert Consultation with regard to increasing the emphasis put on the building of capacities in the Member Nations. His motives for supporting this issue originate from CTA’s work and experience in recent years. He stressed the futility of focusing on the provision of information to countries if those very countries lacked the capacity, both in terms of infrastructure and human resources, to utilize that information. Mr Niang also supported the involvement of new partners, including the private sector, and the importance of raising awareness on the opportunities provided by information management for sustainable development. Agenda item 7 - Scope and mandate of the new AGRIS and CARIS information systems in view of current priorities set by Member Nations DISCUSSIONS Interesting and fruitful discussions were held during the Technical Consultation with the active participation of the delegates and representatives from the AGRIS and CARIS participating centres. A number of points were raised during these discussions which were very important to clarify certain issues. The Secretariat pointed out that FAO’s decision to move the AGRIS Processing Unit from Vienna to Rome, to be completed by the end of 1999, would allow AGRIS to take full advantage of WAICENT tools in Rome and improve the cost efficiency of AGRIS.
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The Consultation endorsed FAO’s general proposal to re-focus the role of AGRIS/CARIS on assisting in meeting the objectives of the Plan of Action of the World Food Summit, concentrating on the dissemination of a wider range of agricultural information to a broader audience. The Consultation endorsed the proposal to prioritise national capacity building in information management therefore enabling effective and autonomous management of national agricultural information. The Consultation congratulated FAO on its proposal to increase the participation and cooperation of various stakeholders in AGRIS, thereby developing the relevance and value of the system. The Consultation recommended that the proposed evolution of the AGRIS information system broaden the contents of the AGRIS system to include non-bibliographic information based on user needs, to decentralize and simplify data processing, thus increasing dissemination of information, while maintaining and improving the quality of the AGRIS bibliographic database and of CARIS. The Consultation endorsed the need for a transition period. The Consultation was satisfied by FAO’s pledge to maintain current central AGRIS/CARIS activities and roles, and continue producing existing information products. The Consultation recommended that a dynamic process of evaluation of the existing system be undertaken at the beginning of the transition period. The evaluations should address, amongst other issues:- lessons learnt from the past experiences of AGRIS and CARIS,
- user needs,
- targeted stakeholder identification,
- the identification and establishment of partnerships between the AGRIS information system and other agricultural information management systems with the purpose of creating economies of scale and synergies,
- scope for expansion,
- quality control.
The Consultation recommended that pilot projects be undertaken in a limited number of countries to validate proposals, and to assess the viability of a decentralized system. To achieve this the pilot projects should;
- establish partnerships with other multilateral and bilateral agricultural information management initiatives, such as those within European Union and CTA initiatives,
- undertake a more proactive role in information dissemination and raise awareness of AGRIS/CARIS to targeted users,
- maintain communication via appropriate media to enable access to information by all stakeholders,
- provide access to a wider range of agricultural information, such as the text of documents referenced in AGRIS, multimedia information, statistics, and possible integration of CARIS and information on research activities, etc.,
- reflect the different levels of technology capacities, infrastructure and languages in the choice of pilot projects.
- AGROVOC Technical Committee in recognition of the considerable value of this Thesaurus, of its multilingual nature, categorization and the importance of its maintenance and further development,
- AGRIS/CARIS Structural Committee in recognition of the need to simplify procedures and data formats and to maintain and update subject categories,
- AGRIS/CARIS Advisory Committee to oversee the evaluation process, steer activities as identified during evaluations, the pilot projects and the recommendations made by the technical committees. In light of these considerations it should propose a future strategy and implementation plan for consideration at the next Technical Consultation.
LISTA DE LOS PARTICIPANTES
ARGENTINA / ARGENTINE
Delegada AGRIS
Ms Irene N. HERL
Bibliotecaria Nacional
Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Alimentación
Buenos Aires
E-mail: Iherl@sagyp.mecon.ar http://siiap.sagyp.mecon.ar
Delegado CARIS
Daniel SPINA
Jefe
Dpto. Documentación e Inf. Bibliográfica
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria
Buenos Aires
E-mail: dspina@idinfo.inta.gov.ar
http://www.inta.gov.ar
AUSTRIA / AUTRICHE
Delegate AGRIS
Hubert SCHLIEBER
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Vienna
E-mail: Hubert.Schlieber@awi.bmlf.gv.at
http://www.awi.bmlf.gv.at
BANGLADESH
Delegate
Mohammad MEJBAHUDDIN
Economic Counsellor/Alternate Permanent Representative
Embassy of Bangladesh
Rome
BELARUS / BÉLARUS / BELARÚS
Delegate
Ms Alena MIHACHOVA
Head AGRIS/CARIS Centre
Belarus Agricultural Library
Minsk
E-mail: agrisin@belal.belpak.minsk.by
BELGIUM / BELGIQUE / BÉLGICA
Déléguée
Mme Apolena ROUBINKOVA
Documentaliste
Bibliothèque, Faculté universitaire des sciences agronomiques
Gembloux
E-mail: roubinkova.a@fsagx.ac.be
Adjointe
Mme Claire Parmentier
Bibliothèque
Faculté universitaire des sciences agronomiques
Gembloux
BRAZIL / BRÉSIL / BRASIL
Delegate CARIS
Ms Edmeia ANDRADE
Systems Analyst
Ministry of Agriculture
EMBRAPA
Brasilia
E-mail: edmeia@sede.embrapa.br
http://www.embrapa.com.br
CANADA / CANADÁ
Delegate AGRIS
Victor DESROCHES
Director
Canadian Agriculture Library
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Ottawa
E-mail: DESROCHESV@EM.AGR.CA
http://www.agr.ca
CHAD / TCHAD
Délégué CARIS
Jean Roger KOUKA
Documentaliste
Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de recherche scientifique, CNAR
N’Djaména
CHILE / CHILI
Delegada AGRIS
Sra. Sonia ELSO
Directora
Biblioteca
Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias
Santiago
E-mail: selso@platina.inia.cl
http://www.inia.cl
Delegada CARIS
Sra. Ana María PRAT
Directora de Información
CONICYT
Santiago
Adjunto
Humberto Molina
Representante Alterno
Embajada de Chile
Rome
CROATIA / CROATIE / CROACIA
Delegate
Nikola Kezic
Member of the Commission
Central Agricultural Library
Faculty of Agriculture
Zagreb
E-mail: NKEZIC@AGR.HR
CYPRUS / CHYPRE / CHIPRE
Delegate
Panayiotis ORPHANOS
AGRIS/CARIS Liaison Officer
Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Agricultural Research Institute
Nicosia
E-mail: orphanos@ari.gov.cy
CZECH REPUBLIC / RÉPUBLIQUE TCHÈQUE / REPÚBLICA CHECA
Delegate
Ms Helena SLEZAKOVA
Head, Information Systems
Ministry of Agriculture
Prague
DENMARK / DANEMARK / DINAMARCA
Delegate AGRIS
Ms Inger MATHIESEN
Head Librarian
Ministry of Agriculture
Danish Veterinary and Agricultural Library
Frederiksberg C
E-mail: im@kvl.dk
Alternate
Finn T. SOERENSEN
Information Scientist
Ministry of Agriculture
Danish Veterinary and Agricultural Library
Frederiksberg C
E-mail: fts@kvl.dk
EGYPT / EGYPTE / EGIPTO
Delegate
Mohamed KHALIFA
Deputy Permanent Representative
Egyptian Embassy
Rome
E-mail: agric.off.emb.egypt@ntt.it
ESTONIA / ESTONIE
Delegate
Ms Kai KÜBAR
Senior Librarian
Estonian Agricultural University Library
Tartu
ETHIOPIA / ETHIOPIE / ETIOPÍA
Delegate
Abebe KIRUB
Head, Information Services
Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization
Addis Abeba
FINLAND / FINLANDE / FINLANDIA
Delegate AGRIS
Ms Heli MYLLYS
Chief Librarian
Agricultural Library
University of Helsinki
Helsinki
E-mail: Heli.Myllys@Helsinki.FI
FRANCE / FRANCIA
Déléguée AGRIS
Mme Marie-Françoise CHEVALLIER-
LE GUYADER
Directeur de l’Information
Institut national de la recherche agronomique
Paris
Adjoint AGRIS
François LACAN
Institut national de la recherche agronomique
Versailles
E-mail: lacan@versailles.inra.fr
Adjoint AGRIS
Gerard GROZEL
Responsable UCD
Institut national de la recherche agronomique
Versailles
E-mail: grozel@versailles.inra.fr
Délégué CARIS
Jean François GIOVANNETTI
Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
Délégué à l’information scientifique et technique
Montpellier
E-mail: giovannetti@cirad.fr
Adjoint
Marc BIED-CHARETON
Direction des Relations Internationes
Institut français de recherche scientifique pour le développement en coopération, ORSTOM
Paris
E-mail: biedchar@paris.orstom.fr
http://www.orstom.fr
Adjoint
Daniel BERTHERY
Conseiller scientifique
Représentation permanente de la France
Rome
GERMANY / ALLEMAGNE / ALEMANIA
Delegate AGRIS
Ms Marianne ANDRES
Zentralstelle f. Agrardokumentation und information
Bonn
E-mail: andres@zadi.de
http://www.dainet.de
GREECE / GRÈCE / GRECIA
Delegate
Ms Catherine GUINI
Alternate Permanet Representative of Greece to FAO
Embassy of Greece
Rome
GUATEMALA
Delegada
Sra. Rita SCIOLLI
Ministro Consejero
Repr. Adjunto
Embajada de Guatemala
Roma
IRAQ
Delegate
Bader ALLAWI
Permanent Representative
Permanent Represenation of Iraq to FAO
Rome
ITALY / ITALIE / ITALIA
Delegate AGRIS
Luca CALIGARA
Funzionario
Institute for Studies, Research and Information on the Agro-food Market (ISMEA)
Rome
E-mail: l.caligara@ismea.it
Alternate
Egidio SARDO
Ministero Politiche Agricole
Rome
JAPAN /JAPON / JAPÓN
Delegate AGRIS
Ms Shizuyo NANAKIDA
Director AFFRIC
Ministry of Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries
Tsukuba-Shi, Ibaraki-Ken
E-mail: nanakida@cc.affrc.go.jp
Alternate
Ms Hiroko AOKI
Assistant Manager of AFFRIC
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Tsukuba-Shi, Ibaraki-Ken
E-mail: ric@affrc.go.jp blaubaum@affrc.go.jp
http://www.affrc.go.jp/
KAZAKHSTAN / KAZAJSTÁN
Delegate
Barlybai SADYBAI
II Secretary
Embassy of Kazakhstan
Rome
KENYA
Delegate AGRIS
Enosh WANGA
Director
Agricultural Information Resource Centre
Ministry of Agriculture
Nairobi
Alternate
Paul CHEPKWONY
Agricultural Attaché
Kenya Embassy
Rome
KUWAIT / KOWEIT
Delegate
Ms Fatimah HAYAT
Permanent Representative
Permanent Representation of Kuwait to FAO
Rome
LATVIA / LETTONIE / LETONIA
Delegate
Ms Ilona DOBELNIECE
Director
Latvian University of Agriculture
Fundamental Library
Jelgava
E-mail: llufb@cs.llu.lv
ilona@cs.llu.lv
LITHUANIAN / LITUANIE / LITUANIA
Delegate
Ms Daiva STANKEVICIENE
Lithuanian Agricultural Library
Ministry of Agriculture
Vilnius
E-mail: biblioteka@zum.lt
MALAWI
Delegate AGRIS
McJowell Lavesi KATSONGA
Librarian
Dept. of Agricultural Research
Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation
Lilongwe
E-mail: ICRISAT-MALAWI@CGNET.COM
MEXICO / MEXIQUE
Delegada
Ms Maria DE LOS ANGELES ARRIOLA AGUIRRE
Representante Permanente Alterno
Embajada de México
Rome
Adjunta CARIS
María Inés ESCALANTE VARGAS
Coordinadora del Sistema de Bibliotecas
Fac. Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia UNAM
México D.F.
E-mail: miev@servidor.unam.mx
MOROCCO / MAROC / MARRUECOS
Délégué AGRIS
Azzeddine MIKOU
Chef, Division de la documentation et de l’information
Ministère de l’agriculture, du développement rural et des pêches maritimes
Rabat
E-mail: asasson@mtds.com
Adjoint
Fakhr Eddine ESSAAIDI
Représentant permanent suppléant
Ambassade du Royaume du Maroc
Rome
MYANMAR
Delegate
Kyi WIN
Third Secretary
Embassy of Myanmar
Rome
NETHERLANDS / PAYS-BAS / PAISES BAJOS
Delegate
Jos VAN GINNEKEN
Associate Director for Technical Services
Library
Wageningen Agricultural University
PUDOC – DLO
Wageningen
E-mail: JOS.VANGINNEKEN@ID.BIB.WAU.NL
http://www.bib.wau.nl/
PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PAPOUASIE-NOUVELLE-GUINÉE / PAPUA NUEVA GUINEA
Delegate
Nicks MANIHA
Senior Information Officer
Department of Agriculture and Livestock
Konedobu
PARAGUAY
Delegada
Sra. Teresa NUÑEZ DE OLMEDO
Asesor Técnico
Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería
Asunción
E-mail: dgp-mag@infonet.com.py
POLAND / POLOGNE / POLONIA
Delegate AGRIS
Ms Elzbieta DZIUK-RENIK
Information Officer
Central Agricultural Library
Warsaw
E-mail: cebibrol@atos.warman.com.pl
Alternate
Ms Krystyna KOCZNOROWSKA
Acting Director
Central Agricultural Library
Warsaw
PORTUGAL
Delegate AGRIS
Ms Manuela PINTAO
Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries
Lisbon
E-mail: mp@min-agricultura.pt
ROMANIA / ROUMANIE / RUMANIA
Delegate
Ms Daniela POPA
Information Officer
Research Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry
Bucharest
E-mail: dana@icpa.ro
SENEGAL / SÉNÉGAL
Délégué AGRIS
Raymond Salla DIONE
Responsable de l’information et de la comm., Ministère de l’agriculture
Dakar
E-mail: upadeux@sonatel.senet.net
SLOVAK REP. / RÉP. SLOVAQUE / REP. ESLOVACA
Delegate
Ms Maria DEBRECENIOVA
Acting Head, AGRIS/CARIS Centre
ISTIA
Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Rep.
Nitra
E-mail: debreceniova@uvtip.sk
SLOVENIA / SLOVÉNIE / ESLOVENIA
Delegate
Tomaz BARTOL
Head, AGRIS Centre
Biotechnical Faculty
University of Ljubljana
Ljubljana
E-mail: TOMAZ.BRATOL@BF.UNI-LJ.SI
SPAIN / ESPAGNE / ESPAÑA
Delegada
Sra. Carmen PEREZ-MUÑOZ
Ministerio Agricultura
INIA
Madrid
E-mail: PEREZM@INIA.ES
http://www.inia.es
SWEDEN / SUÈDE / SUECIA
Delegate AGRIS
Ms Eva JOHANSSON
Senior Librarian
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Ultuna Library
Uppsala
E-mail: Eva.Johansson@bibul.slu.se
SWITZERLAND / SUISSE / SUIZA
Delegate
Ms. Regula WOLZ
Head Translator/Library
Swiss Federal Research Station for Agricultural Economics and Engineering
Taenikon
E-mail: regula.wolz@fat.admin.ch
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC / RÉPUBLIQUE ARABE SYRIENNE / REPÚBLICA ARABE SIRIA
Delegate
Said SHIEKH AL SHABAB
Head, Computer Centre
Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform
Damascus
Alternate
Ahmad RIFAI
Assistant Director
National Centre for Agro. Inform. and Doc.
Damascus
TOGO
Délégué
Ayayi W. APEDO-AMAH
Responsable du CDIA
Ministère de l’agriculture, de l’élevage et de la pêche
Lomé
TUNISIA / TUNISIE/ TÚNEZ
Déléguée
Mme Fatma HAMZA
Documentaliste
Centre national de documentation, CNDA
Ministère de l’agriculture
Tunis
TURKEY / TURQUIE / TURQUÍA
Delegate
Lutfu SAHSUVAROGLU
Publications Department
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Ankara
Alternate
Ahmet SAYLAM
Alternate Permanent Representative
Permanent Representation of Turkey to FAO
Rome
UKRAINE / UCRANIA
Delegate
Ms Tatiana DERIBON
Senior Research Associate
Ukrainian Institute of Scientific-Technical and Economic Information
Kiev
E-mail: T.Deribon@irc.ukrpack.net
agro@irc.ukrpack.net
UNITED KINGDOM / ROYAUME-UNI / REINO UNIDO
Delegate AGRIS
Peter McSHANE
Chief Librarian
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
London
E-mail: p.c.mcshane@inf.maff.gov.uk
http://www.maff.gov.uk
Delegate
Dylan WINDER
NARSIS Manager
Department for International Development
London
E-mail: df-winder@dfid.gtnet.gov.uk
http://www.dfid.gov.uk
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / ÉTATS-UNIS D’AMÉRIQUE / ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Delegate AGRIS
Ms Pamela ANDRE
Director
National Agricultural Library
USDA
Beltsville, Md
Alternate
William BAUCOM
Attaché for Development Affairs
United States Mission to FAO
Rome
VENEZUELA
Delegada AGRIS
Sra. Julia GILABERT DE BRITO
Gerente de Información y Doc.
Fondo Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias
Maracay
E-mail: fonaiap4@REACCIUN.VE
Adjunta AGRIS
Sra. Aida RIVERO ACOSTA
Coordinador Técnico AGRIS
CENIAP, FONAIAP
Maracay
E-mail: UAID@CONICIT.VE
YEMEN / YÉMEN
Delegate
Abdul K. DALAL
Manager of ADC
Ministry of Agriculture
Sana’a
ZAMBIA / ZAMBIE
Delegate
Chitalu ZIMBA
Principal Agriculture Research Officer
Ministry of Agriculture
Chilanga
E-mail: niccp@zamserv.zamtel.zm
INTERNATIONAL/INTERGOVERNMENTAL CENTRES
PARTICPATING IN AGRIS/CARIS
CENTRES INTERNATIONAUX/INTERGOUVERNEMENTAUX
PARTICIPANT A AGRIS/CARIS
CENTROS INTERNACIONALES/INTERGUBERNAMENTALES
PARTICPANTES EN AGRIS/CARIS
CAGRIS
Delegate
Ms Sharida Hosein
Librarian III
Caribbean Information System for the Agricultural Sciences
University of the West Indies
St Augustine – Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
E-mail: shosein@library.uwi.tt
CDSR-AC
Délégué
Amos ELA ELA
Spécialiste base de données
Centre de développement sous-régional pour l’Afrique Centrale
Yaoundé – Cameroun
E-mail: aela_ela@hotmail.com
CIAT
Delegada
Sra. Elizabeth GOLDBERG
Manager, Information and Documentation Unit
Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Cali – Colombia
E-mail: e.goldberg@cgnet.com
http://www.ciat.cgiar.org
CIFOR
Delegate
Ms Sri Wahyuni SOERIPTO
Librarian
Center for International Forestry Research
Jakarta – Indonesia
E-mail: y.soeripto@cgnet.com
http://www.cgiar.org/CIFOR
CIRVAL
Délégué AGRIS
Pascal AVENTURIER
Documentation
Centre international de ressources et de valorisation de l’information dans les filières laitières des petits ruminants
Corté – France
E-mail: Pascal.Aventurier@cirval.asso.fr
http://www.cirval.asso.fr
FAO
Delegate AGRIS
Ms Edith COROSSACZ
Documentation Officer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Rome – Italy
E-mail: edith.corossacz@fao.org
ICARDA
Delegate
Nicholas MALIHA
Manager, Library and Information Services
International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
Aleppo – Syria
E-mail: N.Maliha@CGNET.COM
ICRAF
Delegate
Michael HAILU
Head of Information
International Centre for Research in Agroforestry
Nairobi – Kenya
E-mail: M.Hailu@cgnet.com
http://www.cgiar.org/icraf
IPGRI
Delegate AGRIS
Ms Julia Anne DEARING
Library and Information Services Officer
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
Rome – Italy
E-mail: j.dearing@cgnet.com
ISNAR
Delegate
Govert GIJSBERS
Research Officer
International Service for National Agricultural Research
The Hague
E-mail: g.gijsbers@cgnet.com
IUFRO
Delegate AGRIS
Oscar FUGALLI
International Union of Forestry Research Organizations
Vienna – Austria
E-mail: iufro@forvie.ac.at
http://iufro.boku.ac.at/
CAB INTERNATIONAL
Colin OGBOURNE
Deputy Director General - Information
CAB International
Wallingford - United Kingdom
E-mail: C.Ogbourne@cabi.org
CTA
Thiendou NIANG
Head, Information and Capacity Development Department
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Wageningen – The Netherlands
E-mail: NIANG@CTA.NL
IAALD
Jan VAN DER BURG
President
International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists
Wageningen – The Netherlands
E-mail: JVDBURG@USER.DIVA.NL
IFIS
John METCALFE
General Manager
International Food Information Service
Reading – United Kingdom
E-mail: ifis@ifis.org
http://www.ifis.org
SPAAR
Peter PEE
Deputy Executive Secretary
Special Program for African Agricultural Research
World Bank
Washington DC – United States of America
World Space Corporation
Peter W. WATKINS
Washington DC – United States of America
E-mail: pwatkins@worldspace.com
Ms Monika BLAUMUELLER
Manager
Multimedia Services
Washington DC – United States of America
E-mail: mblaumueller@worldspace.com
Robert Stewart
Vice President, Europe
London – United Kingdom
E-mail: rstewart@worldspace.com
POLAND / POLOGNE / POLONIA
Henryk RYBINSKI
Professor
ICIE
Warsaw
Mieczysiaw MURASZKIEWICZ
Professor
ICIE
Warsaw
FAO REGIONAL OFFICES / BUREAUX REGIONAUX DE LA FAO / OFICINA REGIONALES DE LA FAO
RAF
Mensah SOLOMONS
Information Technology Officer
Regional Office for Africa
Accra – Ghana
RAP
Kevin MCKEEN
Information Technology Officer
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok – Thailand
RNE
Ahmad AL-MUTAWA
Information Technology Officer
Regional Office for the Near East
Cairo – Egypt
SEUR
Michal DEMES
Information Systems Officer
SubRegional Office for Central and Eastern Europe
Budapest - Hungary E-mail: michal.demes@field.fao.org
Appendix B
AGENDA
1 Opening of the Consultation and Introductory Statements
2 Election of the Officers
3 Adoption of the Agenda
4 Presentation of WAICENT and the new role of AGRIS and CARIS in this context
5 Presentation on the information management activities within the respective countries and institutions
6 Presentation of the findings of the Expert Consultation on the Redesign of AGRIS and CARIS
7 Scope and mandate of the new AGRIS and CARIS information systems in view of current priorities set by Member Nations
7.1 Goals and objectives
7.2 Structure and function of the participating bodies
7.3 Operational considerations
7.4 Proposed programme of work
8 Date and place of the next meeting
9 Any other business
10 Adoption of Report
Presentations
Principal papers
Capacity Building for AGRIS
Revising the Structure
Adapting the mechanisms