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 Its content includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more.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 6856 - 6860 of 9579Irrigation Water Value Scenarios for 2015: Application to Guadalquivir River
This paper reviews the application of a scenario for the 2015 agricultural policy and markets for theirrigated agriculture in Europe. Scenarios for irrigated agriculture 2015 are also described in detailincluding Reformed CAP and biomass demand. It is applied at the basin level for the GuadalquivirRiver in southern Spain. The methodology is based upon residual value of water and it combinesbudget and farm analysis at municipality level, with the Guadalquivir basin divided at 50 ‘comarcas’;in each of them 24 possible crops are selected with specific ‘comarca’ data bases.
A Spatial Bayesian Hedonic Pricing Model of Farmland Values
In 1973, British Columbia created theAgricultural Land Reserve (ALR) to protect farmlandfrom development. This study investigates whether theALR has been effective near the city of Victoria.Therefore, we employ a GIS-based hedonic pricingmodel and quantify ALR specific measures. BayesianModel Averaging in combination with Markov ChainMonte Carlo Model Composition are used to addressspecification uncertainty. Results show that zoningschemes are partly credible. Zoned farmland sells forlower prices than other farmland.
Determination of the land-uses in the close proximity of the River of Kura in Ardahan and optimal land use proposals
Today, natural and cultural reserves are being rapidly lost; however, no efficient protection approaches are being put forward. Existent reserves face with the danger of extinction as the result of the land-misuses and excessive utilisation. In order to make accurate and effective reserve management and planning decisions, optimal land-uses targeting the preservation ecological structure should be determined elaborately.
Environmental and management factors determining weed species composition and diversity in France
Multivariate analysis of data from approximately 700 arable fields from France was carried out to partition the respective importance of environmental factors versus management practices on weed species richness and composition. Overall, canonical correspondence analysis indicated that the major variations in species composition between fields were associated with human management factors; (1) the current crop type and (2) the preceding crop type. Three main weed communities were identified according to sowing season: winter, spring and summer-sown crops.