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 Its content includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more.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 5221 - 5225 of 9579Visual analysis of natural and cultural source values considering different landscape character sites; The sample of Erzurum
This study was conducted to determine the visual landscape quality of source values of eight study sites in and around the city of Erzurum sheltering different landscape characteristics and their representative flowering plants, historical remains, water elements like river and lake, forest, grasslands, geological formations and rural landscape. These sites were evaluated for 15 different parameters by presenting the images taken from the area to 150 participants.
Converting to organic farming in France: Is there a selection problem?
Using a sample of French crop farms during the 1999-2006 period, we test whether lesstechnically efficient farmers are more likely to engage in organic farming in order to benefitfrom conversion subsidies. Despite some limitations in our data, we find no evidence of suchselection effect. On the contrary, our estimation results indicate that more technically efficientfarmers are more likely to convert to organic farming. This finding is found to be robust to themethod of calculation of efficiency scores, either parametric or non-parametric.
practice and economics of stewardship contracting: a case study of the Clearwater Stewardship Project
The purpose of the stewardship contracting authority is to allow public land managers to achieve land management goals while meeting local rural community needs. The authority's use is on the rise, and many regard stewardship contracting as a win-win mechanism for federal land management and a means of ending the "timber wars" on public land. This report provides an overview of stewardship contracting, with a focus on improvements needed for it to reach its full potential.
Farmers’ attitudes about growing energy crops: A choice experiment approach
The present study adapts the choice experiment (CE) method for an analysis of how Swedish farmers assess the relative value of the characteristics associated with growing energy crops. An additional goal was to find out the willingness of farmers to grow energy crops relative to different levels of income and subsidies based on predictions of acreage of energy crop cultivation. In the first CE, farmers were presented with two energy crops and six of their characteristics and asked to choose the alternative he or she preferred most.
Spider, bee, and bird communities in cities are shaped by environmental control and high stochasticity
Spatially organized distribution patterns of species and communities are shaped by both autogenic processes (neutral mechanism theory) and exogenous processes (niche theory). In the latter, environmental variables that are themselves spatially organized induce spatial structure in the response variables. The relative importance of these processes has not yet been investigated in urban habitats.