What is AGRIS?
AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a global public database providing access to bibliographic information on agricultural science and technology. The database is maintained by CIARD, and its content is provided by participating institutions from all around the globe that form the network of AGRIS centers (find out more here). One of the main objectives of AGRIS is to improve the access and exchange of information serving the information-related needs of developed and developing countries on a partnership basis.
AGRIS contains over 8 million bibliographic references on agricultural research and technology & links to related data resources on the Web, like DBPedia, World Bank, Nature, FAO Fisheries and FAO Country profiles.
More specifically
AGRIS is at the same time:
A collaborative network of more than 150 institutions from 65 countries, maintained by FAO of the UN, promoting free access to agricultural information.
A multilingual bibliographic database for agricultural science, fuelled by the AGRIS network, containing records largely enhanced with AGROVOC, FAO’s multilingual thesaurus covering all areas of interest to FAO, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc.
A mash-up Web application that links the AGRIS knowledge to related Web resources using the Linked Open Data methodology to provide as much information as possible about a topic within the agricultural domain.
Opening up & enriching information on agricultural research
AGRIS’ mission is to improve the accessibility of agricultural information available on the Web by:
- Maintaining and enhancing AGRIS, a bibliographic repository for repositories related to agricultural research.
- Promoting the exchange of common standards and methodologies for bibliographic information.
- Enriching the AGRIS knowledge by linking it to other relevant resources on the Web.
AGRIS is also part of the CIARD initiative, in which CGIAR, GFAR and FAO collaborate in order to create a community for efficient knowledge sharing in agricultural research and development.
AGRIS covers the wide range of subjects related to agriculture, including forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, human nutrition, and extension. Its content includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more. A growing number (around 20%) of bibliographical records have a corresponding full text document on the Web which can easily be retrieved by Google.
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Displaying 6676 - 6680 of 9579IMPACTS OF POLICY REFORM ON SUSTAINABILITY OF HILL FARMING IN UK BY MEANS OF BIO-ECONOMIC MODELLING
Hill farming in UK is experiencing very difficult economic circumstances and many farmers rely onsubsidies provided by the government for a large fraction of their income. The Peak District NationalPark is used as a case study to examine how farmers might respond to current policy changes � inparticular, the move from area- and headage-based payments to the Single Farm Payment, and howoptimal business plans should respond to these changes.
Conservation Reserve Program Acreage To Decline; Will Benefits Also Fall
Estimating Impacts of Climate Change on Lower Murray Irrigation, Australia
This article evaluates irrigated agriculture sector response and resultant economic impactsof climate change for a part of the Murray Darling Basin in Australia. A water balancemodel is used to predict reduced basin inflows for mild, moderate and severe climatechange scenarios involving 10, 20, 40 Celcius warming, and predict 13%, 38% and 63%reduced inflows. Impact on irrigated agricultural production and profitability are estimatedwith a mathematical programming model using a two-stage approach that simultaneouslyestimates short and long-run adjustments.
Investigation of factors defining land and farm structure among the West-Transdanubian farming units
Both private farms and corporations from the region were included in the two questionnairesurveys as part of an OTKA research [Investigating relations of farm size measurement and comparison on territorial as well as SGM basis, in the West-Transdanubian Region (T 048960)] carried out in our Institute about relations of farm size measurement in the West-Transdanubian Region.