AGROVOC

Search AGROVOC

 

AGROVOC consists of +41 000 concepts and +1 151 000 terms in up to 42 languages

Suggest New Concept

Would you like to suggest new concepts to AGROVOC? 

Register and fill the form

 

SUBMIT NEW CONCEPT

Contact

Case Studies

AGROVOC Country Reports 

Published on December 2021, these reports provide an introduction to the institutions and the countries they represent as part of the AGROVOC editorial community; their experience in using AGROVOC and the activities undertaken to promote it in the country; and the next steps foreseen for this collaboration in the coming years.

AGROVOC Use cases

The FAO issued in June 2021 a call for use cases about the adoption and use of its AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus. According to the contributions received, some of the most common benefits coming from the use of AGROVOC are: the multilingualism and the availability of labels in multiple languages; the indexing of scientific productions that increases their visibility; and the use of AGROVOC as a reference for the standardization of terms improving data findability.

International organizations from Nepal, Germany, Senegal, Indonesia, Russia, Brazil, and Kenya submitted their cases, introduced their institution, explained how they use AGROVOC, highlighting the benefits for their organization and for their work.

The list of the cases received is now available for consultation:

  • Towards a topic model for Multi-Actor project research and dissemination outputs based on AGROVOC concepts

    A use case by Hercules Panoutsopoulos, Agricultural University of Athens In the seven years of implementation of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme , the investments of the European Commission into Research and Innovation projects focusing on agriculture, forestry, and rural development have totaled up to almost 1 billion euros. These Multi-Actor projects (details about the concept and scope of...

  • Using AGROVOC on the Organic Farm Knowledge Platform

    A use case by Andreas Basler, Lauren Dietemann, Helga Willer, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL , the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems ICROFS and IFOAM Organics Europe set up the online platform Organic Farm Knowledge , a European web platform with information for organic farmers and advisors. The work was...

  • Embrapa: AGROVOC and GTermos

    A use case by Embrapa Brazil: facts and figures Population: 211,639,714 inhabitants (2020) Total Area: 8,510,295.914 km 2 Six biomes: savannahs (Cerrado); semi arid zone (Caatinga); tropical forests (Mata Atlântica); grasslands (Pampa); swamps (Pantanal) Brazilian Agriculture 235,918.76 thousand hectares of agricultural land 55,384.06 hectares of arable land 7,982 hectares of land under permanent...

  • AGROVOC’s Use to Facilitate Agricultural Information Management and Access

    A use case by Modou Sall, International Development Research Centre The National School of Agriculture (ENSA) , formerly INDR created in 1983, aims at delivering agricultural engineering training in specialities of animal production, plants production, soil sciences, rural equipment and agricultural economics. The library is a vital service to support teaching and research activities by providing...

  • The use of AGROVOC in Indonesia

    A use case by Madiareni Sulaiman, Indonesian Institute of Sciences As of today, there are only two scientific thesauruses in Indonesia: Women in Development Thesaurus (1991) and the Indonesian Science and Technology Thesaurus (Thesaurus IPTEK, 2015). In order to catalog library materials and databases, other thesauri are also provided for multi-disciplinary coverage. Using controlled vocabulary...