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...

On Friday 12 November 2021 at 16:00 GMT+4, with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) , an online workshop on AGRIS and FAO AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus will be conducted by the Institute TECHINFORMI of the Georgian Technical University . The round table discussion will address topics including: the evolution and the dissemination and management of food and agriculture...

The November 2021 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 39,599 concepts and 924,000 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 Xuefu Zhang, P rofessor in the Director Division of AII at CAAS, and AGROVOC editor of Chinese When did you start your experience in AGROVOC and how are you engaging with it? The cooperation between the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on AGROVOC began in 2002, starting with the translation into Chinese of AGROVOC...