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 Its content includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more.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 8596 - 8600 of 9579Efficiency Policies for Salinity Management: Preliminary Research from a Spatial and Dynamic Metamodel
Dryland salinity, as an externality, has an impact on various public assets, including roads,biodiversity and public water supplies. This has been seen as an important justification forgovernment to take action and internalise the pollution. Economic policy instruments have beenidentified as a potential solution to the problem, as they may achieve environmental goals at leastcost to society. This paper presents a spatial and dynamic model which aims to compareeconomic instruments for land use change to abate the off-site impacts of salinity on publicassets.
Temporary carbon storage and discount rates
Several approaches have been proposed for accounting for temporary carbonsequestration in land-use change and forestry projects that are implemented to offsetpermanent emissions of carbon dioxide from the energy sector. In a previous paper,we evaluated the incentives provided by some of these approaches. In this paper, weinvestigate further what we call the “ideal” accounting system, where the forest ownerwould be paid for carbon sequestration as the service is provided and redeempayments when the forest is harvested and carbon is released back into theatmosphere.
Rotations, Risk and Reward: Farming system choice on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia
A farming systems and rotations trial was conducted at Minnipa on the Eyre Peninsulaof South Australia between 1995 and 2001. The results have been presented to localfarmers as simple gross margin comparisons (with a relatively low value for the pasturephase if present) in extension publications. The results are reassessed in terms ofincreased livestock return, and allowing for permanent/family labour and machineryoverheads. The relative risk vs return is also considered to explain the acceptance of theresearch by local farmers.
Farm Size and Land Use Changes in Vietnam Following Land Reforms
Over the last decade the Vietnamese government has instigated land reforms thatrecognise the household as the basic unit of production and allocate land use rights tohouseholds. Under the 1993 Land Law these rights can be transferred, exchanged,leased, inherited, and mortgaged. This Land Law provided the foundation for thedevelopment of a market for land use rights. During 2001, 400 farm households weresurveyed in four provinces in Vietnam.
A Remote Sensing Approach for Detecting Agricultural Encroachment on the Eastern Mediterranean Coastal Dunes of Turkey
The aim of this study was to develop an effective procedure for detecting land use/land cover (LU/LC) changes resulting from agricultural encroachment on eastern Mediterranean coastal dunes by using remote-sensing techniques. Historic LU/LC information was extracted from aerial photos taken in 1976 and IKONOS imagery was acquired in 2002 to determine the current LU/LC pattern. The remotely sensed aerial and satellite data were classified by integrating spectral information with measures of texture, in the form of statistics derived from the variance, co-occurrence matrix and variogram.