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...

The December 2021 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 39 647 concepts and 926 643 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 .

An interview with Carsten Hoffmann, research assistant at BonaRes Centre and one of the German AGROVOC editors Carsten Hoffmann made his PhD thesis about grazing effects on wind erosion in the grassland of Inner Mongolia, (China). Since 2016 he is a Research assistant in the BonaRes project (Soil as a sustainable resource for the bioeconomy) and sets up a repository for soil and agricultural...

More than 50 participants representing 30 institutions from 29 countries: this was the Fourth AGROVOC Editorial Community Meeting specifically organized for the community of editors and held online on 29 June 2021. The meeting aimed to update the AGROVOC editorial community on the achievements of the first half of 2021 and discuss the new, revised version of the AGROVOC Editorial Guidelines 2020...