Like the famous NPK fertilizer formula1 for plant growth, agricultural organizations and institutions require regular doses of the three information, knowledge and communication elements. In the right combinations, and with suitable tools and devices to formulate, spread and apply them, these ¿intellectual fertilizers¿ are critical inputs to rich and sustainable research ¿harvests.¿
Dr. Mark Holderness has been appointed as new Executive Secretary of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR).
GFAR and FAO presented a paper at the Special Session on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics : 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR07), Greece, October 11-12, 2007.
The paper, entitled "Proposed Architecture and Workflow for Managing and Sharing Distributed Information on Organizations Using a Central Registry File", has been published in the Conference proceedings and will be pusblished in the Springer post-proceedings.
The paper is available on the website of the Special Session:
The paper, entitled "Proposed Architecture and Workflow for Managing and Sharing Distributed Information on Organizations Using a Central Registry File", has been published in the Conference proceedings and will be pusblished in the Springer post-proceedings.
The paper is available on the website of the Special Session:
An innovation systems approach for ARD focused on poor, small holder producers central to future GFAR actions