Last June, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) issued a call for use cases about the adoption and use of its AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus, as part of the activities that are taking place in 2021 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the thesaurus. A selection of the best contributions was presented during the AGROVOC Annual Event held online on 29 June 2021. All the...

Se ha publicado la edición de septiembre de 2021 del tesauro AGROVOC. Hoy en día, consta de 39 276 conceptos y 870 000 términos en hasta 40 idiomas. El equipo de AGROVOC expresa su agradecimiento a todos los editores del tesauro que han contribuido a la adición de conceptos, términos y otros contenidos. Puede obtener más información sobre los editores de AGROVOC aquí.

AGROVOC has recently launched its new editorial community page, following the Fourth Annual AGROVOC Editorial Community Meeting held on 29 June 2021. This new web page features a map representation of AGROVOC’s global partnership and a search box where in addition partners can be searched by the institutional names and/or acronyms, country, topics and languages curated. So far, 28 institutions and...

During recent years, AGROVOC has increased in concepts, terms and languages (see Figure 1 and 2) thanks to the collaboration of the AGROVOC editorial community. While in 2017, AGROVOC had 34 700 concepts and 661 000 terms, by July 2021, AGROVOC contained almost 39 180 concepts and 844 000 terms. In 2021, AGROVOC was available in up to 40 languages, including Arabic, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese...

The Fourth AGROVOC Editorial Community Meeting was held online on 29 June 2021. More than 50 participants representing 30 institutions from 29 countries took part in the event. The event aimed to update the AGROVOC editorial community on the achievements of the first months of 2021 and discuss the new updated version of the editorial guidelines. This meeting follows a previous AGROVOC meeting held...