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With the objective to increase accessibility and visibility of research products in its Member Countries, FAO has been promoting the exchange of scientific and technical information related to all aspects of agriculture since the early 1970s. Moving from paper to digital and from processing to partnerships, FAO has established a series of programmes to support these efforts and make information and research data on agriculture and related sciences available, accessible and usable.

Since the early 1980’s, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has coordinated AGROVOC, a valuable tool for classifying data homogeneously, facilitating interoperability and reuse. AGROVOC is a multilingual and controlled vocabulary designed to cover concepts and terminology under FAO’s areas of interest. It is the largest Linked Open Data set about agriculture available for public use and its greatest impact is through providing the access and visibility of data across domains and languages.

All AGROVOC Topics

LANGUAGE(S) MANAGED: English , French , Arabic , Chinese , Spanish; Castilian , Russian

Related Activities

28/03/2022

The paper titled “ AGROVOC: The linked data concept hub for food and agriculture” has just been recently published online in the journal “ Computers...

09/07/2021

The Fourth AGROVOC Editorial Community Meeting was held online on 29 June 2021. More than 50 participants representing 30 institutions from 29...

11/06/2021

FAO and CGIAR have established a collaboration to enhance data sharing in the food and agricultural domain through the further use and enhancement of...

17/05/2021

In addition to the main website of AGROVOC at http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/ , it is now possible to search and use AGROVOC through a new domain at https...

23/04/2021

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is now using the CKAN data management system to share releases of AGROVOC, its multilingual thesaurus, and...

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Sustainable Development Goals
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Publications

Book
AGROVOC 6: Curating a subvocabulary in AGROVOC
2023

In this publication the principles of multischeme multihierarchy management and subvocabularies in AGROVOC were introduced, with the considerations of...

Book
AGROVOC 5: Using VocBench for AGROVOC curation
2023

This publication provided an overview of the core functionalities of the VocBench in the AGROVOC context: search, suggest new terms and concepts...