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 Its content includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more.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 6816 - 6820 of 9579Price effects of an emissions trading scheme in New Zealand
Implementation of a New Zealand Emission Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) will begin in 2008, beginning withforestry, subsequently including energy and industrial emissions, and finally, agricultural GHGs from2013. Reducing agricultural emissions is a major challenge for New Zealand as they account for over halfits total GHG emissions. On the other hand, agriculture is critical to the economy, with its basic andprocessed products accounting for a third of exports. We use an environmental input-output model toanalyse direct and indirect cost impacts of emissions pricing on food and fibre sectors.
Evaporation properties of a revegetated area of the Tengger Desert, North China
Mapping Indicators of Machinery Utilization predicted by an Artificial Neural Network
IMPACT OF THE WTO LIBERALISATION ON ORGANIC FARMING IN SWITZERLAND
This paper outlines the potential impact of current WTO trade talks on land use, livestock husbandryand financial performance of organic and nonorganicfarms in Switzerland. The results of theanalysis conducted suggest that organic farms would respond to a potential WTO trade agreement ina similar way than nonorganicfarms.