January 2005

Information, Communication and Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Agriculture in Lithuania

Report of the Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics (LAIE)/FAO Workshop, Vilnius, Lithuania, 17-18 June 2003

In the context of a global effort to contribute to the improvement of Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems (AKIS), FAO had commissioned a number of studies on national AKIS in each of its five geographical regions. The AKIS study for Lithuania was completed in 2002 and showed a very rapid development of system elements in the first decade of Lithuania’s new independence. As a follow-up to this study and in response to previously requested assistance in higher education programmes for environment related issues in agriculture, a workshop was organized to identify some of the more urgent needs and project options to strengthen the Lithuanian AKIS for sustainable and organic agriculture systems.

The workshop on “Information, Communication and Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Agriculture in Lithuania” (17-18 June 2003), jointly organized by the Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics (LAIE), the FAO Regional Office for Europe and FAO’s technical services for Research and Technology Development and Extension, Education and Communication produced clear priorities and a list of desired outputs for the development of an Information and Communication System (ICS) for sustainable agriculture with a major focus on organic agriculture as a model sustainable system. During the follow-up, a draft project proposal for support under FAO’s technical cooperation programme (TCP) was prepared.

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