
Intergovernmental
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO )
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.
LANGUAGE(S) MANAGED: English , French , Arabic , Chinese , Spanish; Castilian , Russian
Related Activities

New paper featuring AGROVOC as the linked data concept hub for food and agriculture
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...

Fourth Annual AGROVOC Editorial Community Meeting
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...

FAO cooperates with CGIAR to increase interoperability between food and agricultural information systems
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...

FAO consolidates the AGROVOC multilingual agricultural thesaurus services
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...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the CKAN data management system
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...
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...