Consultations on Agricultural Information Management (COAIM)

COAIM 2002

The Second Consultation on Agricultural Information Management was held in Rome, Italy, from 23 to 25 September 2002.

The meeting took place in an international policy context in which multilateral initiatives and agreements on information and communication technologies complement FAO efforts to address member countries' needs and strategies on agricultural information management and as a means to promote food security and sustainable development.

The main goal of the meeting was to review ways and mechanisms to improve the capacities of decision-makers, professionals and the public at large in FAO member countries to access and use agricultural information.

Documents and reports

This page contains the documentation of the Second Consultation on Agricultural Information Management.

Working documents:

Document	Reference	Download in Word
Provisional agenda	FAO/COAIM- 2/1
Provisional annotated agenda	FAO/COAIM- 2/2
Secretariat report	FAO/COAIM- 2/3
Programme of work 2002-2004	FAO/COAIM- 2/4
Final report of the Second Consultation on Agricultural Information Management	FAO/COAIM/2/REP

Information documents:

Document	Reference	Download in Word
Provisional list of documents	FAO/COAIM 2/Inf.1
Provisional list of participants	FAO/COAIM 2/Inf.2
Final report of the First Consultation on Agricultural Information Management (Rome, Italy, June 2000)	FAO/COAIM 2/Inf.3
Director-General`s Bulletin 2002/15: World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) Committee	FAO/COAIM 2/Inf.4
Report of the Preparatory Meeting of the Inter-agency Advisory Group	FAO/COAIM 2/Inf.5
AGRIS - A strategy for an international network for information in agricultural sciences and technology within the WAICENT framework	FAO/COAIM 2/Inf.6
Towards better semantic standards for information management, the Multilingual thesaurus of agricultural terminology (AGROVOC) and the Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS)	FAO/COAIM 2/Inf.7

Technical documents:

Document	Reference	Download in Word
Information management resource kit	FAO/COAIM-2/Tech.1
AGRIS - Guidelines for description of information objects for an international information system on agricultural sciences and technology	FAO/COAIM- 2/Tec.2