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FAO: new online = education tool=20 kit on agriculture

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The Education for Rural People Tool Kit Web page was launched today = by the=20 UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

The tool kit is a valuable resource for all those whose daily work = consists=20 in training the rural poor in the fields of food and nutrition, local=20 knowledge systems, agrobiodiversity, food quality and safety, rural = finance,=20 marketing, forestry, fisheries, communication and other related=20 issues.

Well, last time I reviewed a site=20 I got hard = criticism on = the comments=20 I made. But the question is that there are some comments to be = made,=20 not as easy criticism, but with the aim to help to improve these sites = that are=20 of the greatest value!! So, there go my comments. Please read = them as=20 made not with the aim to destroy but to build.

The Took Kit does not seem to be a database but static html. This = has, at=20 least, three inconvenients:

Searching is much more difficult if not impossible. Try with=20 =E2=80=9Cbookkeeping=E2=80=9D, that has a category on its own, and cry = over the results.=20 Filtering by categories is simply not available.=20
Updating becomes a hell of a work. Adding a new resource means = changing,=20 at least, two pages. Changing an existing one, even more difficult.=20
Categorization becomes static, non hierarchical, etc.

Some months ago, Yan = Simmard asked in=20 one comment whether Google was not a better learning objects = =E2=80=9Crepository=E2=80=9D=20 than some other so called LORs. Well, if repositories are just like this = Tool=20 Kit, Google surely is still a better one, which is a sad, sad thing.

Thus, what in principle was a very good news - new educational = resources for=20 the rural community - then becomes a quite disappointing one :(

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