At FAO, we are committed to helping combat and eradicate world hunger. Information dissemination is an important and necessary tool in furthering this cause—we need to provide consistent, usable access to information for users in places doing this very work. And, the wide recognition of FAO as a neutral international centre of excellence for agriculture positions it perfectly to lead in the dev...

introduction: direct and rapid access to information is one of the main necessities of the users in new technological world. nowadays, information users, particularly medical information in which rapid access is of necessity, do not have enough time to search and access to information. therefore, the present study aimed to determine strategies to access required information as soon as possible....

this study examined the accuracy between extension professionals and farmers regarding their perceptions of privatization and commercialization of agricultural extension services. the study was carried out in delta state, nigeria and it had a sample size of 224 respondents comprising of 134 extension professionals of the delta state agricultural programme (dtadp) and 90 farmers that were random...

Agricultural system models have become important tools to provide predictive and assessment capability to a growing array of decision-makers in the private and public sectors. Despite ongoing research and model improvements, many of the agricultural models today are direct descendants of research investments initially made 30-40 years ago, and many of the major advances in data, information and...

Agricultural knowledge is a special kind of domain knowledge, and is a significant basis for agricultural knowledge-based intelligent information service system. This paper presents main results of our ongoing project of Agricultural Knowledge Processing and Applications (AKPA): 1) An agriculture-specific ontology, 2) A method for agricultural knowledge acquisition and representation, 3) An exp...

given the role that knowledge management can play consistently on the changes and the need to develop human resources in the implementation of knowledge management on the one hand and important position of cooperative sector in country economics, on the other hand, led to that the researchers study the relationship between knowledge management and human resource performance of the agricultural ...

The methodology presented in this paper is the result of accumulated experience gained through many years of developing several expert systems in the agricultural domain by the Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert Systems (CLAES). We have adopted a spiral model for the overall life cycle of expert systems development. As will be explained in this paper, the development methodology of an e...

Transferring expertise from highly qualified experts to non-expert veterinarians and animal breeders is one of the Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert Systems (CLAES) main objectives. CLAES used the knowledge based system technology to achieve this objective. Five animal knowledge based systems have been developed for diagnosis animal diseases and/or management farm. This paper presents ...