From September 22nd to 29th the FAO headquarters in Rome hosted the e-Agriculture Week, a “week-long dialogue focusing on the use of information, communication, and associated technologies in sustainable agricultural development and food security”. The E-Agriculture Week was designed as part of the follow-up to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), who identified e-Agriculture as a priority in its Plan of Action. It was organized by a number of international organizations, led by FAO.

GFAR participated in several events taking place during the e-Agriculture Week. Some of them, as the 2nd Expert Consultation on IISAST, the 4th inter-regional consultation on ICM4ARD, the EGFAR Taskforce and the Web2forDev Conference, are covered in other articles in this issue. Other important meetings in which GFAR participated were:

- 8th Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) Workshop: "7 years of AOS: Achievements and Next Steps", organised by FAO and held on 21-22 September, in which information and knowledge management experts in agriculture met to review ongoing developments of semantic standards and their application. GFAR presented a project that is under development in strict collaboration with FAO and with the support of other partners: the Agricultural Organizations Registry project for managing information on agricultural organizations in a distributed architecture using a central Registry. More on this project in the next issue of our Newsletter. The program, presentations and final report of this workshop are available here. 
- CGIAR: Global Public Goods - From Information and Knowledge to Food, organised by CGIAR and held on 28 September, an open and inclusive meeting to help lay out new approaches for the CGIAR to provide its “information customers” worldwide with simple but enhanced access to the vast array of scientific data, information and knowledge generated by its research centers working with their national research partners.
- Farmer-led documentation: Local knowledge sharing in an agricultural context, organised by PROLINNOVA / ETC EcoCulture, IAALD and FAO and held on 28 September, an interactive exchange meeting, where organizations involved in agricultural development were invited to share their views on farmer-to-farmer knowledge sharing, specifically on farmer led documentation.