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Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture: Exercises for AGORA Basic Course (2015)

Year of publication 2015

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 16 p.

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The AGORA Basic Course (new 2015) is a series of training modules for individual users, with presentations and hands-on exercises. See http://www.fao.org/agora/training/en/ to access the individual modules in PPT. Most of the modules have exercises which follow, gathered in this document. The AGORA programme, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in t he fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world. AGORA is one of the four programmes that make up Research4Life: AGORA, HINARI, OARE and ARDI.

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