La Red de Información y Comunicación Estratégica del Sector Agropecuario AGRONET-Colombia anuncia el rediseño de su nuevo portal, disponible ahora en www.agronet.gov.co.En reconocimiento al papel estratégico de la información para el desarrollo del sector, AGRONET fue concebida por el Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural de Colombia, con el apoyo técnico y financiero del programa de cooperación de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO). Esta red de información y comunicación integrada y descentralizada proveé de información estratégica oportuna y sintética a los responsables de la toma de decisiones políticas del sector y a la vez, brindar a los diversos actores de las agro-cadenas –con especial atención...
In Australia, Dean Power and Think eExtension are all about the "use of Web 2.0 and Social Media tools in engagement, knowledge sharing and creation, and community cultivation of Sustainable Agriculture, Natural Resource Management and Environmental Stakeholders." Check out blog postings with the label e-Extension (also on the eco2oh blog ...There's also a nice paper by John James at a 2007 APEN event - Using e-Extension to better engage with clients and enable change. Reviewing various extension approaches, he identifies likely web 2.0 tools that can be applied, arguing that these tools will particularly increase engagement and collaboration among extension workers and their...
Wageningen Yield (WaY) is the access point to publications from Wageningen University and Research Centre. WaY contains references to publications authored by Wageningen University staff from 1976 onwards, including many in full text.WaY encourages authors to publish according to the Open Access Principle. Content in WaY can also be harvested according to the OAI-PMH protocol. Access to each research unit's outputs is enhanced through RSS feeds listed from the 'browse' option on the menu.Beyond search an retrieval, the service shows how staff publications and reports can be searched and sorted to provide publication lists, by author, research team or research theme. Academic staff contributing to the system can therefore get something...