| The ERP Tool KIt |
This ERP Tool kit provides education and training materials for rural teachers, technicians, instructors, trainers, parents, researchers, extensionists and others involved in formal and non formal education for rural people. It could also provide tools for self studies. |
www.fao.org/erp/erp-toolkit-en/en/ |
| The Millennium Development Goals |
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www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ |
| FAO and the eight Millennium DEvelopment Goals |
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www.fao.org/mdg/22417-1-0.pdf |
| Capacity Development Portal |
FAO's Capacity Development Portal is designed to help FAO's partners, member states and other international, national and local development actors to access knowledge, information, training tools, good practices, and services in Capacity Development in FAO's mandate areas. |
www.fao.org/capacitydevelopment/capacity-development-home/en/ |
| The Share Fair |
The Share Fairs aim to be positively interactive events, providing the possibility for Staff to showcase their experiences in knowledge sharing and, at the same time, learning from each other. |
www.sharefair.net |
| FAO - Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension |
The Office provides leadership towards an integrated approach to the generation, management, sharing, communication and transfer of knowledge and information related to food, agriculture and towards the sustainable use of the earth’s natural resources in order to respond to the knowledge, technology and capacity development needs of member countries and the fostering of research, innovation, extension and learning. |
www.fao.org/oek/oek-home/en/ |
| The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) |
The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a partnership-based e-learning initiative to train individuals and support institutions and networks world-wide in the effective management of agricultural information. IMARK consists of a suite of distance learning resources, tools and communities on information management. |
www.imarkgroup.org |
| IMARK |
The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a partnership-based e-learning initiative to train individuals and support institutions and networks world-wide in the effective management of agricultural information. IMARK consists of a suite of distance learning resources, tools and communities on information management. |
www.imarkgroup.org/modulelist_en.asp |
| CGIAR |
The ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR promotes and supports the use of information and communications technology (ICT) and knowledge management (KM) to improve the effectiveness of the CGIAR System's work on behalf of the poor in developing countries. |
ictkm.cgiar.org/category/knowledge-sharing/ |
| Best Practices |
In the spirit of FAO's stronger focus on knowledge sharing, this new FAO Best Practices Web site provides a series of summaries that introduce some best practices in FAO's areas of expertise. It also provides links to further resources with supporting technical information. |
www.fao.org/bestpractices/ |
| Farmer Field School Approach (FFS) |
FAO and other development organizations have been promoting farmer field schools – an innovative approach to adult education first developed in Southeast Asia for pest management – to improve land and water management in Africa. |
www.fao.org/nr/land/sustainable-land-management/farmer-field-school/en/ |
| Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools |
Supporting rural youths with active learning programmes relevant to farming, income generation and nutrition |
www.fao.org/bestpractices/content/11/11_04_en.htm |
| School Gardens |
School Gardens are found in many countries, in different forms and sizes, with varying aims. In most cases, the School Garden is an area of land within the school grounds or nearby. |
www.fao.org/schoolgarden/index_en.htm |
| Food for the Cities |
If poverty in the cities is not explicitly addressed and food not given the needed attention in urban planning, the Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved. This can only be done within a comprehensive perspective linking cities to rural areas. |
www.fao.org/fcit/en/ |
| Dimitra |
Dimitra is a participatory information and communication project which contributes to improving the visibility of rural populations, women in particular. |
www.fao.org/dimitra/en/ |
| GFAR - The Global Forum on Agricultural Research |
GFAR seeks to integrate research with the societies it aims to serve and puts farmers and the explicit needs of the poor at the very core of agricultural research and innovation systems. |
www.egfar.org/egfar/ |
| Virtual Extension and Research Communication Network (Vercon) |
The VERCON model aims to enhance interaction among agricultural research, extension, farmers and the other stakeholders of agriculture and rural development. |
km.fao.org/vercon/ |
| The Right to Food |
The Right to Food Unit supports the implementation of the human right to adequate food, using FAO’s Right to Food Guidelines. It develops methods and instruments to assist stakeholders in the implementation of the right to food and information and training materials to raise awareness and understanding by rights holders, duty bearers, civil society and the general public and supports initial national implementation of the right to food at national level. |
www.fao.org/righttofood/ |
| The ICT-KM Program |
The ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR promotes and supports the use of information and communications technology (ICT) and knowledge management (KM) to improve the effectiveness of the CGIAR System's work on behalf of the poor in developing countries. |
ictkm.cgiar.org |
| the Knowledge Sharing Toolkit |
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www.kstoolkit.org |
| Knowledge Sharing Tools |
By tools we mean websites or software that can be used to support personal and group knowledge sharing. Often tools are used with methods. |
www.kstoolkit.org/KSTools |
| Distance Learning - Introduction |
The Distance Learning Component offers self-paced e-learning, developed by international experts to support capacity building and on-the-job Training and Workshops at national and local food security information systems and networks. |
www.kstoolkit.org/KS+Methods |
| Distance Learning - Courses |
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www.kstoolkit.org/Communities+of+Practice |
| Collaboration and Advocacy Techniques (3 Lessons) |
This course illustrates a wide range of tools and techniques that can be used to improve collaboration and knowledge sharing, and provides guidance on conducting collaborative food security assessments. |
ictkm.wordpress.com/catagory/ks-course/ |
| Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) |
This wiki is both a working area for the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community and a way for us to make our joint work accessible to a wider audience. |
wiki.km4dev.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page |
| Knowledge Management for Development' (KM4dev) website |
Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches. |
www.km4dev.org |
| Knowledge and information sharing through the AGRIS Network |
The AGRIS Network is an international initiative based on a collaborative network of institutions, whose aim is to promote free access to information on science and technology in agriculture and related subjects |
agris.fao.org/about |
| AgriFeeds: The Agricultural News and Events Aggregator |
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www.agrifeeds.org |
| Overseas Development Institute |
ODI resources capture the latest critical thinking on development issues. |
www.odi.org.uk/resources/ |
| Dare to Share |
The Dare to Share your knowledge site is about learning and sharing knowledge. It is owned by the “Knowledge and Learning Processes” division of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). |
www.daretoshare.ch |
| Distance Learning - Introduction |
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www.foodsec.org/DL/dlintro_en.asp |
| Distance Learning - Courses |
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www.foodsec.org/DL/dlcourselist_en.asp |
| Collaboration and Advocacy Techniques (3 Lessons) |
This course illustrates a wide range of tools and techniques that can be used to improve collaboration and knowledge sharing, and provides guidance on conducting collaborative food security assessments. |
www.foodsec.org/tr_res_07.htm |
| E-agriculture |
There are a number of e-Learning resources freely available online for courses and modules focused on e-Agriculture as a field or designed to teach participants skills relevant to areas of e-Agriculture. |
www.e-agriculture.org/489.html |
| Agora |
The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. |
www.aginternetwork.org/en/ |
| Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development |
The Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) initiative is working to make agricultural research information publicly available and accessible to all. This means working with organisations that hold information or that create new knowledge – to help them disseminate it more efficiently and make it easier to access. |
www.ciard.net |
| The Universal Digital Library |
the Universal Library is a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, available to everyone over the Internet. |
www.ulib.org |
| AGORA |
The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. |
www.aginternetwork.org/en/ |
| FAO Corporate Document Repository |
The FAO Corporate Document Repository houses FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications, in electronic format. It enables users to easily access the accumulated knowledge and information produced by FAO directly on the Internet. |
www.fao.org/documents/ |
| David Lubin Memorial Library |
The Library has over one million volumes; the journal collection contains approximately 13,000 titles of which 1,450 are electronic. The heavily used working collection consists of FAO documentation, books and serials in FAO subject fields, a comprehensive reference collection and specialized Branch Library collections in Fisheries and Forestry. |
www.fao.org/library |
| Food Security Information for Action Programme |
The EC-FAO Food Security Information for |
www.foodsec.org/dl/dlregistration_en.asp |
| Courses |
The Distance Learning Component offers self-paced |
www.foodsec.org/dl/dlcourselist_en.asp |
| The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition |
The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) is a community of practitioners currently reaching more than 2400 members from across the world’s five continents. |
km.fao.org/fsn/ |
| The website @ participation |
The Participation Website was established in 1999 by the Informal Working Group on Participatory Approaches and Methods to Support Sustainable Livelihoods and Food Security (IWG-PA). One of the key objectives of the working group was to capitalize on FAO's most successful normative and field experiences with participatory approaches and methods through their adaptation, replication and dissemination, in order to enhance FAO's field programme |
www.fao.org/participation |
| The Sudan Institutional Capacity Programme: |
The Sudan Institutional Capacity Programme: Food Security Information for Action (SIFSIA) works with national institutions in Sudan to strengthen their capacity for generating, analyzing, and disseminating food security information. |
www.fao.org/sudanfoodsecurity/en/ |
| Ask FAO |
Ask FAO is a Web site where you can find Facts, Figures and Statistics, Find out about Projects and Country Activities / Information |
www.fao.org/askfao/ |
| Dgroups 2.0 |
Dgroups 2.0 is the starting point for groups and communities in international development. We are a partnership which caters to both individuals and organisations by offering tools and services that bring people together. |
dgroups.org/standards.cfm/ |
| Wikispaces |
Wikispaces is an intuitive and user-friendly wiki |
wikispaces.com |
| Skype |
Skype is an application that allows speaking to anyone in the world for free. |
www.skype.com |
| PBworks in Education |
PBworks hosts educational workspaces, and has helped transform teaching and learning for millions of students, parents and teachers. |
pbwiki.com |
| Twitter |
Twitter is an information network in real-time |
twitter.com |
| Delicious |
Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking |
www.delicious.com |
| Mendeley |
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research |
www.mendeley.com |
