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  1. Adapting to the trend of open data, promoting agricultural data sharing and application - those are a few of the problems that six teams aimed to tackle at a Hackathon during November 18th to 20th 2014 in the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural…
  2. Over the past 3 years, the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) in collaboration and support from GFAR and CIARD have been advocating and building capacities in opening access to data and information of the agricultural research and…
  3. Since its early days, GFAR has placed a large emphasis on strengthening national and regional agricultural information systems. A result of this has been a partnership of over 10 years with the Agricultural Information Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) to…
  4. Source: CGIAR Let your voice be heard! The world is developing a new set of global goals and targets – Sustainable Development Goals – to follow on from the current Millennium Development Goals that have been hugely influential in shaping development policies and investments. We…
  5. What happens when almost 75 people passionately interested in open access to knowledge (including data and information) and improving agricultural informatics in India gather together? Lots of scope for knowledge exchange and opening up of opportunities were only two of the outcomes of the "Open…
  6. Participants at the meeting of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity emphasize the need for sharing and collaboration across borders to achieve global biodiversity conservation targets. Conservation scientists, development practitioners and policy makers attending a side event…
  7. Shyla Anand, an intern with the GFAR Secretariat has completed a study on expatriates’ contributions to agricultural development in their home economies.   This study examined the ways in which expatriates have impacts on agricultural development, focusing on the financial, knowledge…
  8. Nanjing Agricultural University, China, September 20 2014: The GCHERA World Agriculture Prize was awarded to Professor Paul Vlek, world-renowned soil scientist and leader in interdisciplinary research for development, education and capacity building. The award is in recognition of Paul Vlek’s…
  9. Source: CAAS Quarterly Newsletter   In November 2013, the Vice Minister of Agriculture and CAAS President Li Jiayang and his team paid a visit to the VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Ghent University. Li signed a memorandum of understanding with Ghent University, aimed…
  10. by K.M.L. Pathak Almost every smallholder farming family in a developing country owns livestock, whether chickens, rabbits, sheep, goats, pigs, cows, buffaloes, donkeys, horses, yaks, llamas, or camels. In India and many other countries, there is greater equity in livestock ownership…
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