Welcome to the May 2014 edition of our Research4Life Partner Newsletter. Our goal is to keep you updated on Research4Life’s recent news, upcoming meetings, latest milestones, interviews, and partners. We also want to make it possible for you – as a Research4Life partner – to fully leverage and promote your participation in our impressive access initiative.

Dr Sami Hyacinthe Kambire, a researcher from Burkina Faso, shares how Research4Life as helped him to develop better and more informed scientific writing skills, produce focused research that he can discuss with top researchers worldwide, compete more effectively for research funding, and deliver better teaching programmes. Video available in French and English.

FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva. Ten Years On: 10th Anniversary of AGORA, Sheikh Zayed Media Center, FAO headquarters. AGORA, a programme that brings key scientific literature on food, agriculture and related fields to students, researchers and scientists, has become a crucial tool for some of the world’s poorest countries. Access to information is key to develop agriculture and...

AGORA makes online scientific literature available to over 100 poor countries - Tenth anniversary celebrated in Rome. See FAO News story. AGORA, a programme that brings key scientific literature on food, agriculture and related fields to students, researchers and scientists, has become a crucial tool for some of the world's poorest countries. Ten years after its launch in 2003, AGORA (Access to...

FAO Director-General, José Graziano da Silva, right, awarding Onan Mulumba in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Research4Life Library Competition. Ten Years On: 10th Anniversary of AGORA, Sheikh Zayed Media Center, FAO headquarters.