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 Its content includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more.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 1386 - 1390 of 9579Shimizu town in Wakayama PrefectureManagement and policy response for abandoned cultivated lands
This paper investigated the cause of abandoned farm land in hilly and mountainous area and proposed correspondence to cope with this problem. The progress of depopulation is also violent, and the population will be almost reduced by half from 1960 in fiscal year 1980. The farmland of the ratio of the abandoned cultivated land made a forest is also abundant 20% and in those. Through the investigation and the field survey focusing on the home pattern and the farmland condition, the generation factor of the abandoned cultivated land was analyzed.
Radiocesium migration from the canopy to the forest floor in pine and deciduous forests
STATE SUPPORT AS AN ELEMENT OF THE LAND RESOURCES REPRODUCTION
The implementation of organizational and economic activities, the most important of which is the mechanism of state support, is ensured by high efficiency of land use while maintaining soil fertility. In order to adapt to the requirements of the WTO, the order of distribution and the provision of subsidies to decoupled support to farmers in crop production (per hectare subsidies) was introduced in Russia since the beginning of 2013.
Regularities of soil deformation under the influence of wheels of agricultural cars
Permanent exploitation of agricultural machinery and equipment supposes excessive compression of soil cover by undercarriage, especially by wheels, which leads to crop yield decline, high energy consumption and decrease of productivity. The main goal of the research presented in the article appears determination of the dependencies between soil reluctance and compaction, reflecting peculiarities of the curve of depression of the deformation agent in soil. The research analyzes development of the core of compression during compression of stamping tool.
Evaluation of historical leaf area index change in the MIROC-ESM
The global carbon cycle has feedbacks on the global climate, and climate-carbon cycle interactions are explicitly represented in earth system models (ESMs). In ESMs, leaf area index (LAI) is a key variable for projecting future environmental changes, but it might be one of the most difficult to precisely predict. In this research, historical LAI changes reproduced in the ESM named 'Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate ESM (MIROC-ESM)' are analyzed, focusing on impacts of CO2 fertilization effects, climate change, and land-use change.