One of the contentious issues in ICM for Agricultural Development in the Asia-Pacific Region is in the inadequacy of useful and relevant agricultural information, its further generation and access. Generating and opening access to relevant and useful information for smallholder farmers and...
17/12/2013
Three priority areas of action for making data and information accessible will be discussed. The first priority area is to improve investment through introduction of sound policies and coordinated global, regional and national approaches. The second priority is to develop organizational...
10/10/2012
The CIARD RING China working group organized two workshops in June and July 2012 to raise awareness on the objectives of the CIARD RING and train staff of Chinese agricultural science Institutions in the use of the RING portal. Part of the workshops was dedicated to the illustration of...
20/07/2012
In order to promote agricultural scientific research data and information sharing, accelerate the development of China's agricultural information sharing system, establish effective cooperation mechanisms, strengthen the building of a national agricultural scientific research information...
20/05/2012
The FAO Country Profiles information system (http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles) is an information retrieval tool which groups FAO and partner organizations' archives of information in agriculture and development in a single area and groups it and presents it by country. The FAO...
28/02/2012
The recent international expert consultation organized in June 20-23 2011 in Beijing by the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) (http://www.ciard.net) partners advanced the development of a framework for data and information sharing and exchange for...
11/07/2011
Expert Consultation Meeting on GIS Applications in Agricultural Development in WANA Region in Amman-Jordan, 7-8 June 2011 At the 2007 ICM4ARD Workshop for West Asia and North Africa (WANA), organized by AARINENA, application of Geographical Information System (GIS) and effective use of spatial...
08/07/2011
Prof. Liu Xu, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) launched the Coherence in Information in Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) Website (http://www.ciard.net/zh-hans) in Chinese on 21 June 2011. The CIARD Website in Chinese is being maintained by the...
06/07/2011
Infoshare Marketplace at the International Expert Consultation on Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing An Infoshare Marketplace where participants could share their and their organizations experiences in sharing data and information was organized on 20 June 2011 during the...
06/07/2011
The Consultation This International Expert Consultation, which has been preceded by an electronic consultation on the e-agriculture platform, will consider steps that need to be taken globally to build a framework for data and information sharing for agricultural research for development. Some...
05/06/2011
There is a growing movement to make data and information in the public domain more accessible and effectively used. The CIARD movement advocates, promotes and supports making agricultural research information in the public domain not only available but more easily accessible, applicable and...
20/05/2011
A Training Workshop on Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) and Strengthening RAIS in the SAARC Countries was organized jointly by SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC), APAARI, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), FAO and GFAR at SAC, BARC Campus in Dhaka...
30/04/2011
1. ICAR invites all Indian NARIs and universities to join CIARD The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has formally invited all ICAR Institutes and all Universities to join the “Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development” (CIARD) initiative (...
14/03/2011
