CIARD is a global partnership formed in 2008 to promote coherence in agricultural information management and sharing. It aims to make public agricultural research information truly accessible to all. CIARD partners will coordinate efforts, promote common formats and adopt open systems. The vision is to create a global network of public agricultural research collections. CIARD held consultations validating its agenda and increasing outreach to stakeholders including managers, researchers and information specialists.

1. GENERAL PRESENTATION www.ciard.net [email_address] A new way forward Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development

5. Founding Partners and growing….. The Community

6. A Manifesto

10. What are we already doing?

11. Capacity Building Task Force Advocacy Task Force Content Management Task Force

13. R outemap to I nformation N odes and G ateways ( RING ) Pathways Creative Commons CAB Abstracts AgMES

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