The French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development ( CIRAD ) works for the sustainable development of tropical and Mediterranean regions with particular emphasis on agronomy, forest and wood research, the environment, genetics, animal health, zootechnics, and phytopathology. CIRAD, which has collaborated with FAO since 1986, uses AGROVOC in its AGRITROP database and annotates...

The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation ( Embrapa ) supports research and technological innovation for Brazilian and tropical agriculture. A controlled vocabulary, Agrotermos , is under development at Embrapa by a working group of nine staff members in agriculture, agricultural terminology, natural language processing, linguistics, and library science. The Embrapa team uses AGROVOC for...

AGROVOC meeting participants, Darmstadt 24 June 2019 As a follow-up to last year's successful AGROVOC Editors' meeting in Utrecht , thirty-three editors and stakeholders from 16 countries and 13 language areas met on June 24-25 2019 at the German Association for Technology and Structures in Agriculture (KTBL) in Darmstadt, Germany. AGROVOC is a multilingual thesaurus and controlled vocabulary...