To share data, shared understanding of meaning and unambiguous terminology is needed. Since the early 1980's, FAO has supported the standardization and enhancement of discoverability of food and agricultural data to enrich the knowledge sharing, visibility of and access to data through the publication of AGROVOC, a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of FAO. The AGROVOC Thesaurus...

The February 2020 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released now boasting 36,942 concepts and 742,032 terms, in up to 38 languages . The AGROVOC team wishes to thank all of the AGROVOC editors, helping to contribute to the addition of concepts, terms and languages. Learn more information about the AGROVOC editors in the field here . AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of...

Learn more about how the State Agrarian University of Moldova was able to work together with FAO to co-organize a workshop, and how they were able to utilize the workshop to interact with other key stakeholders discussing the benefits and also the challenges of accessing scientific research, publications and data, while at the same time developing a new network of contacts to assist with...

The Agricultural Information Management Standards Portal (AIMS) of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) gathers information on (and access to) standards, technology and best practices. It is also a forum connecting information management workers around the world to discuss open access and open data. With the objective to increase the accessibility and visibility of...

Central Scientific Agricultural Library ( CSAL ) is the leading information center in the field of agriculture in the Russian Federation. CSAL has created a thesaurus on agriculture and food in Russian and maintains the Russian version of AGROVOC. The team working on AGROVOC is comprised of five people – one coordinator plus several experts in specific fields of agriculture who use special...