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  • Meet the AGROVOC editorial community

    Marina Đačić, information librarian at the Matica Srpska Library (MSL), is the AGRIS focal point in her organization. She is actively engaged in the AGROVOC editorial community as editor for Serbian since 2019. How did you start your experience in AGROVOC and how are you engaging with it? In June 2019, I attended a regional workshop on “Strengthening the Accessibility and Visibility of...

  • May 2021: New release of AGROVOC Thesaurus

    The May 2021 version of the AGROVOC thesaurus has been released. It now contains 39 000 concepts and 809 000 terms, in up to 40 languages. The AGROVOC team thanks all of the AGROVOC editors who have contributed to the addition of concepts, terms and other content. Learn more about the AGROVOC editors here.

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

    The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is now using the CKAN data management system to share releases of AGROVOC, its multilingual thesaurus, and AGRIS, the platform promoting accessibility of scientific information and digital data in food and agriculture. CKAN is an open-source software, with an active community of contributors who develop and maintain its core technology, that will make...

  • ICARDA - MEL contribution to AGROVOC

    The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is an international organization undertaking research-for-development to provide innovative, science-based agricultural solutions that improve the livelihoods resilience of rural dryland communities. ICARDA is a member of CGIAR Research Center. In 2016 ICARDA launched the Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning (MEL)...