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WAICENT, World Agricultural Information Centre: FAO's information gateway

Year of publication 1997

Pages 12p.

Author Anton Mangstl, Joseph R. Judy, and Fynvola Le Hunte Ward;Knowledge Exchnage and capacity Building Division

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The specific components which make up the World Agricultural Information Centre at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), are described in this paper. WAICENT comprises three principal elements which are interactive and complementary: FAOSTAT, for the storage and dissemination of statistical information, FAOINFO, which covers hypermedia information, and FAOSIS which covers very specialised information systems.

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