Using AgriKnowledge
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Agriknowledge is an online resource platform developed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, providing over 800 resources for agricultural development. It offers tools for quick searches, result narrowing, and provides information on key agricultural programs in Africa including projects from Agra and the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency. The platform aims to improve knowledge accessibility to support smallholder farmers and enhance agricultural productivity.
Using AgriKnowledge
- 2. About AgriKnowledge • AgriKnowledge provides access to key information for agricultural development. • Contains over 800 resources from projects and programmes sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- 3. • Agriknowledge has been developed as an online partner to TEEAL • Both TEEAL and Agriknowledge are managed by Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University. • The Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA) conducts awareness and training workshops throughout the African continent. • TEEAL and Agriknowledge are funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- 4. Get started using the Quick Search box Type your search terms in the Search box on the home page to instantly generate a list of information resources Type your search terms here for a quick search
- 5. Your results are displayed in a list. Each result gives you key information, such as article title, author and year. You can open the full result for more details or go straight to the Full text article. Choose your articles from a list of search results See the Full Text of the resource Scroll to see more results Click the article title for more details
- 6. The full result gives you a more in-depth description about your article. You can open your article from here, too.
- 7. Clicking of ‘Full Text’ will allow you to open the PDF article
- 8. Narrow your search Too many results? Results not relevant enough? Narrow your search results using the facet menu under ‘Limit your search.’ : Commodity, Value Chain, Geographic Location and more. Use the ‘Limit your Search’ panel to narrow down a search
- 9. Results can be sorted by Relevance, Year, Author or Title Use the sort feature to arrange your results according to your preference
- 10. Want to browse AgriKnowledge’s collection? AgriKnowledge has various collections of resources
- 12. Collection1: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • The Bill & Melinda Gates works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives, focused on health, poverty, and opportunity. Their initiatives tackle some of the world’s toughest problems in the area of global health and development. For each issue, they seek to fund innovative ideas that could help remove barriers that prevent people from making the most of their lives. • As one of the largest initiatives at the Foundation, the Agricultural Development program seeks to reduce poverty for thousands of small- holder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia through a multi- faceted approach. Its interventions support work in a number of focus areas, including farmer services and systems, research and development, policies and data, livestock, and crop value chains.
- 13. Collection2: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) • AGRA is an independent African-led and Africa-based organization formed in 2006 in response to a call from former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Committed to putting farmers at the center of the continent’s growing economy, AGRA’s investments are primarily focused on Africa’s family farmers – those cultivating crops and tending livestock on less than two hectares of land. With headquarters in Nairobi and offices in Ghana, Tanzania, Mali and Mozambique, it works with partners in 18 countries to serve millions of farmers and thousands of local agriculture businesses. AGRA’s collection highlight Africa-focused material drawing from investments that embrace food production practices that are environmentally sustainable and economically inclusive. Their programmatic foci include seed systems, soil health, market access, policy & advocacy, farmer organizations, innovative finance, and gender.
- 14. Collection3: The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) • ATA is a strategy and delivery oriented government agency created to help accelerate the growth and transformation of Ethiopia’s agriculture sector. The Agency’s mandate is focused solely on improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers across the country. Based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the ATA was created to address systemic bottlenecks, catalyze transformation in the country’s agricultural sector, and support partners to execute new technologies, approaches, and interventions. The ATA collection reflects the agency’s work in its five main focus areas: production & productivity, agribusiness & markets, sustainable and inclusive growth, enhanced implementation capacity, and analytics.
- 15. This is the end of the module. • You can take a quick quiz on Agriknowledge which is on the platform to test yourself.
Editor's Notes
- #3: Agriknowledge has been developed as an online partner to TEEAL. Agriknowledge provides access to key information for agricultural development. Currently, there are over 800 documents produced in conjunction with programmes and projects sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) are available through Agriknowledge.
- #5: The Search box on the homepage will allow you quick access to AgriKnowledge’s list of information resources. Type your search terms and get started.
- #6: After searching for your article, a list of retrieved articles will show, from there you can identify the most relevant articles. Under the article you find the Full Text tab, which will take you to your full pdf article
- #7: Clicking the title on the results page will give you a complete citation of your article. The complete citation will give you details such as the author, author affiliation, language, year of publication among others. Here you will also get the Full Text tab which will take you to your pdf article if you click on it.
- #8: This is an example of a Full Text article.
- #9: The ‘Limit Your Search’ tab will provide you with options to narrow your search and increase your chances of retrieving relevant articles. You can limit your search according to: Commodity, Value Chain, Geographic Location, Language, Document type and more
- #10: To further sort your results click on the drop down menu and use options such as: Relevance, Year, Author Title
- #11: You will also find an option to choose on the collections provided by AgriKnowledge. The different collections are: