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 Its content includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more.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 5056 - 5060 of 9579The effect of using labelled alternatives in stated choice experiments: an exploration focusing on farmland walking trails in Ireland
Discrete choice experiment data aimed at eliciting the demand for recreationalwalking trails on farmland in Ireland is used to explore whether some respondentsreach their choices solely on the basis of the alternative’s label. To investigatethis type of processing strategy, the paper exploits a discrete mixtures approachwhich encompasses random parameters for the attributes. We find evidence thatrespondents employ different processing strategies for different alternatives anddifferences in processing emerge between rural and urban based respondents.
The Distribution of CAP Payments - Redistributional Injustice or Spatially Adapted policy?
This paper analyses the distributional equality of individual Scottish Government-administeredpayments in 2008 under CAP Pillars One (single farm payments) andTwo (rural development measures) and in total, in terms of economic, social andspatial factors.The analysis shows that 94% of all payments were paid to claimants in core ruralareas (94%) while only a few (5%) claimants resided in urban areas or outside ofScotland (1%). However, in both Pillars, claims made by urban residents were oftenhigher than those made by rural dwellers.
The Provision of Ecosystem Services by Agriculture – a Spatially Explicit DEA Approach
According to the concept of ecosystem services, agriculture not only provides commoditiesbut also cultural and regulating services. While it is easy to value commodity production bymarket prices, the valuation of cultural and regulating services is complex because of theirpublic good character. Non-parametric approaches such as the Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) allow for estimating the contribution of agriculture to such services.
2011 is the year of the forests – Saving the forests through international cooperation
„Kísértet járja be Európát és Észak-Amerikát: az erdőpusztulás kísértete.” Ezzel a drámai hangvételű mondattal kezdődik a World Resources 1986. évi kötetének erdőkkel foglalkozó része, ami a 70-es években kezdődött nagyarányú erdőpusztulás világméretű „jajkiáltása” volt, melynek visszhangja: „Mentsétek meg a Föld erdeit – amíg nem késő, amíg van mit megmenteni és megőrizni!” Nemzetközi tudományos, világméretű társadalmi fórumok témájává vált az erdő. Az emberiség egyre jobban ráébredt arra, hogy az erdő az emberiség létfeltételeinek elengedhetetlen része.