The executive secretary of FARA, Dr Monty Jones, launched the new FARA website at its 4th General Assembly in Johannesburg on June 13th. This webportal has been developed as part of the FARA's Regional Agricultural Information and Learning System, RAILS project and is to play a central role in achieving one of FARA's networking function on access to knowledge and technologies.
This new portal developed in cooperation with Wageningen International, builds on the earlier investment made on the Infosys+ toolbox. It contains extensive information on FARA, its networks and partners. FARA's functions and projects can be found at www.fara-africa.org. Important features include aggregated news and events related to African agricultural research for development from over 30 different sources. It also includes best practices and technologies from the ‘Farmers corner’ and a directory with over 800 African organisations in agriculture, research, education and training and others.

Being developed at first as information platform this portal will be enhanced into a full functional knowledge sharing platform facilitating online communication and collaboration within and outside Africa.

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