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 Its content includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more.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 8586 - 8590 of 9579Agri-environmental conservation – the case for an environmental levy
Recent environmental assessments have highlighted the extent of land degradation inAustralia and the significant costs involved in addressing it. With projected investment costsrunning into tens of billions of dollars, it is not surprising that greater attention is now beingfocussed on who should pay. One idea gathering significant momentum has been theimposition of an environmental levy.
Modelling the Dynamics of Weed Management Technologies
An appropriate economic framework for valuing the benefits of weed management technologies is to treatweeds as a renewable resource stock problem. Consequently, the weed seed bank is defined as a renewableresource that changes through time due to management and seasonal conditions. The goal of decision-makers isto manage this (negative) resource so as to maximise returns over some pre-specified period of time. Amodelling framework is presented for evaluating the biological and economic effects of weed management.
LAND USE IN THE AUSTRALIAN RANGELANDS
This paper reviews pastoral lease arrangements across Australia and considers theextent to which these affect the emergence of non-pastoral land uses. Some 44 per centof Australia is made up of pastoral leases. The predominant use of these leases is forgrazing livestock (primarily sheep and cattle). However, there is increasing demandfor this land to be used for non-pastoral uses, such as tourism, farming of nonconventionallivestock (such as goats, kangaroos and camels) and conservation ofnative wildlife.
Depreciation and Obsolescence in the Context of Natural Resource Accounting
Conventional national accounting practice emphasises depreciation as both a physical loss inproductive capital and an economic loss due to obsolescence. This emphasis is only partiallyparalleled in prescriptions for natural resource accounting, where resource depletion is typicallytreated as “physical capital depreciation”. Depreciation resulting from obsolescence—and thusrelative price changes rather than physical wastage—does not feature in resource accounting.The question is, what (if anything) does a consideration of obsolescence imply for work inresource accounting?
Investigating the performance of market-based instruments for resource conservation: the contribution of agent-based modelling
Auctions are increasingly being considered as a mechanism for allocating conservationcontracts to private landowners. This interest is based on the widely held belief thatcompetitive bidding helps minimize information rents. This study constructs an agent-basedmodel to evaluate the long term performance of conservation auctions undersettings where bidders are allowed to learn from previous outcomes. The results clearlyindicate that the efficiency benefits of one-shot auctions are quickly eroded underdynamic settings.