The following contains links to online Flash meetings that center on "Promotion & use of agricultural learning repositories" (which has concluded the main sessions of this e-conference), we have taken an interview from Prof. Erik Duval (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, President of the ARIADNE Foundation) about the snowflake effect and how it is relevant to the agricultural and rural communities.

It has been recorded using the Flashmeeting environment, and you can view it by visiting more...

For the past several weeks, the Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force (AgLR-TF) has been conferring through questionnaires and through online Flash meetings. In the near future, the results from this ongoing collaboration will be published by Nikos Manouselis, the project leader.

The following is from the KEYNOTES page where you can watch the video meetings:

Welcome to the online space of the Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force. This is a community initiative developed un more...

For the session on "Repositories with open educational resources for
agriculture & rural development" (which has now started and is expected to
conclude on Sunday 11th of May), we have taken an interview from Dr. Lisa
Petrides (President, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in
Education - ISKME) about the creation of the Open Educational Resources
Commons (OERCommons, www.oercommons.org).

It has been recorded using the Flashmeeting environment, and you can view it by visiting more...

As part of the activities of the Agricultural Learning Repositories
E-Conference, we have arranged to have some keynote speeches from recognized experts who have been invited to talk about the topics of each session of the E-Conference. These speeches are given in the form of Webcam-recorded online interviews. For the session on "Understanding and expectations from learning resources" (which is still ongoing and expected to conclude on Sunday 4th of May), we have taken an interview from Jan Ben more...

The Right to Food website is an interactive website on the right to food, providing practical information for policy-makers, legal practitioners, civil society members, UN staff, academics and the general public.

Through the web site, users can increase their awareness of the human right to food, access resources for capacity-building at national and
international levels, and find guidance, methods and instruments to assist
in implementation of the right to food at the country level.

R more...

Workshop on Learning Technology Standards for Agriculture and Rural Development Athens,
Greece, September 19, 2008 http://infolab-dev.aua.gr/agrolt/2008/

Submission Deadline: April 25, 2008
In conjunction with
4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Bio and Earth Sciences (HAICTA 2008)

An increased interest has been recently witnessed in the area of learning resources for agriculture and rural development. Discussions among key stakeholders (like the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, the World Agroforestry Centre, the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, and other distinguished organizations), gave a sparkle to the idea of bringing together people that are interested/involved in the developme more...

La Commission Européenne (CE) et la FAO ont le plaisir d'annoncer le lancement des trois premiers cours d'apprentissage électronique en français sur la sécurité alimentaire. Ces cours ont été produits par le Programme de la CE/FAO intitulé: « Sécurité alimentaire: l'information pour l'action », et sont disponibles gratuitement sur cédérom et à travers le site web du Programme.

This online full course is provided by MIT OpenCourseWare under Creative Commons licence. Course Description: "Energy, Environment and Society" is an opportunity for first-year students to make direct contributions to energy innovations at MIT and in local communities. The class takes a project-based approach, bringing student teams together to conduct studies that will help MIT, Cambridge and Boston to make tangible improvements in their energy management systems. Students will develop a thorou more...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has just published "Marker-assisted selection: Current status and future perspectives in crops, livestock, forestry and fish", edited by E.P. Guimarães, J. Ruane, B.D. Scherf, A. Sonnino and J.D. Dargie. The 494-page book is organised into six sections: an introduction to marker-assisted selection (MAS), in chapters 1-2; case studies of MAS in crops (including cassava, common beans, cotton, forage crops, maize, tomato and wheat), in chapters 3-9; case st more...