FAO is pleased to announce a new collaboration on AGROVOC with the Makerere University , one of the oldest universities in Africa based in Uganda. For many years, Makerere University has actively promoted programmes such as AGORA and AGRIS , in Uganda and in the region. Since 2018, AGROVOC has been expanding its coverage through collaboration with communities of experts to include specialized...

The February 2022 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 39 898 concepts and 929 214 terms, in up to 41 languages. The AGROVOC team thanks all of the AGROVOC editors who have contributed to the addition of concepts, terms and other content. Learn more about the AGROVOC editors here .

In the course of the last 12 months the use of the FAO AGROVOC thesaurus has grown impressively, both for single and multiple resources, with an increase of more than 100% in both cases. Single resources refer for example to a person or a machine accessing a single concept, while multiple resources are sets of resources being accessed by humans or machines. In line with the previous increases, in...

The paper titled “How agricultural digital innovation can benefit from semantics: the case of the AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus” is publicly available on the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) document repository on the FAO website. It illustrates the recent developments in the context of AGROVOC, the multilingual thesaurus managed and published by FAO and presents some...

An interview with Ekaterina Kulakova, Chief Specialist of the Group of Scientific Activities Management and Head of the Russian Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Center at the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) and one of the Russian editors at AGROVOC. When did you start your experience in AGROVOC and how are you engaging with AGROVOC? I have...