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 Its content includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more.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 1396 - 1400 of 9579Foreign Direct Investment Attraction in the Baltic States
This paper considers the importance of macroeconomic factors as well as investment climate for foreign direct invest ment attraction in the Baltic states. It reviews some of the indicators for measuring the investment climate and their usefulness as indicators of strength of FDI attraction and uses the results of econometric analysis to consider relative importance of various macroeconomic factors. The results suggest that perceptions of corruption and fiscal policy are some of the more important drivers of FDI attraction.
9th International Scientific Conference ''Students on Their Way to Science'': (undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate students): collection of abstracts, April 25, 2014 (Electronic resource)
The conference is aimed at dissemination of scientific research results, sharing of experience, improvement of foreign language and cross-cultural communication skills, and establishing of international contacts.
Vulnerability of livelihoods in flood-prone areas along the Cambodian-Vietnam border
Effects of soil compression after sowing using a shallow rototiller plus seeding machine capable of cutting small ditches
To support crop-rotation systems using rice, wheat, and soybean in paddy fields, we developed a sowing device that can be attached to a rototiller ; the device cuts small ditches on both sides of groups of rows of plants, while tilling to a depth of approximately 5cm, planting seeds, and compressing the soil around the seeds. This device includes a pressurized roller which compacts the soil with sowing, and we examined the effect of this compaction on germination rate after seeding.
ALLOCATION OF LAND AS PARTICULARLY VALUABLE AGRICULTURAL LAND: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
This article describes the problems associated with changes in the procedure for determining the legal regime of land in the part of the transition from the division on the categories to zoning. In order to avoid seizure of productive farmland from the industry, author suggests to allocate the high value agricultural land, within the boundaries of which may be defined as exclusive zone for agricultural purposes. Also author offers method of classification of land that could be classified as particularly valuable.