[open-science] Fwd: Food and Agriculture Organization will be granting free and open access to its central data repository

[Tom Moritz]

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From: Chucri Sayegh <chucrisayegh at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:59 AM
Subject: Food and Agriculture Organization will be granting free and open
access to its central data repository
To: biod_commons at indaba.iucn.org


FAOSAT. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization will be granting free and
open access to its central data repository, which is the world’s largest and
most comprehensive database on food, agriculture, and hunger. It contains
over one million data points covering 210 countries and territories. This
database can be consulted using English, French, or Spanish, and is already
being used by economists, planners and national development authorities,
donor agencies, international aid organisations, and more. For more
information, please visit
http://www.fao..org/news/story/en/item/43724/icode/<http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/43724/icode/>;
to access the database, please see http://faostat.fao.org/.
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