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Access to food information through FAO's, World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT)

Internet access to global food information for industry, government, academia and consumers - promises or solutions?

Year of publication 1997

Pages 71 -78

Author Anton Mangstl, Christopher Pardy, Kafkas Caprazly;Knowledge Exchnage and capacity Building Division

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) As part of its mandate The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations facilitates access to the wealth of information on food that is collected by itself and by external information sources.

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    Report of and papers presented at the Regional Workshop on Networking for Improved Access to Fisheries and Aquaculture Information in Africa. Grahamstown, South Africa, 3–7 November 2003. / Rapport de et documents présentés à l’Atelier régional sur le renforcement du réseau pour l’accès à l’information sur la pêche et l'aquaculture en Afrique. Grahamstown, Afrique du Sud, 3-7 novembre 2003. 2004
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    This document contains the Report and papers presented at the Regional Workshop on Networking for Improved Access to Fisheries and Aquaculture Information in Africa, which was held in Grahamstown, South Africa, from 3 to 7 November 2003. Eighteen participants from Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Seychelles and South Africa attended the Workshop and presented papers. Fisheries library networking activities were reviewed as a basis for planning future collaboration to improve ac cess to fisheries information and to promote information resources sharing. The summary of priority issues includes improved dissemination of African fisheries publications, full-text online fisheries journals, open source software, network focal points, the use of standard methodologies to enhance information exchange and technology for document delivery. The long-term goal of the network is to strengthen the information capacity at national fisheries institutions in Africa.
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