The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations will take part in the 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, to be held from 2 to 6 February 2026 in Bengaluru, India, contributing to global discussions on equitable, community-led digital infrastructures for research and knowledge sharing.

Held under the theme Collaboration for Equitable Digital Infrastructures and Knowledge Commons in Agriculture and Broader Scientific Research Systems, the Summit brings together policymakers, scholarly societies, researchers and infrastructure providers to advance Diamond Open Access as a sustainable, non-commercial publishing model.

FAO’s participation reflects the Organization's long-standing commitment to open science and interoperable knowledge systems in agriculture. This engagement is grounded in FAO’s work through AGROVOC and FAO AGRIS, two cornerstone components of FAO AIMS that support structured, multilingual and openly accessible agricultural information worldwide.

AGROVOC, FAO’s multilingual agricultural vocabulary, has played a critical role in enabling semantic interoperability across repositories, journals and information systems, while FAO AGRIS facilitates the discovery and dissemination of agricultural research outputs from institutions around the world.

During the Summit, FAO will contribute to workshops addressing metadata standards, interoperability and persistent identifiers for Diamond Open Access, alongside thematic discussions on agriculture and food systems and sessions focused on strengthening scholarly societies as key actors in community-led publishing models.

For more information about the 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, visit the Summit website.