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AGORA, the Glossary

AGORA is the acronym for the Access to Global Online Research on Agriculture program.^[1]

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Agricultural research

Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Animal science

Animal science is described as "studying the biology of animals that are under the control of humankind".

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Applied science

Applied science is the application of the scientific method and scientific knowledge to attain practical goals.

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Aquatic science

Aquatic science is the study of the various bodies of water that make up our planet including oceanic and freshwater environments.

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ARDI

ARDI is the Access to Research for Development and Innovation program, a partnership between the World Intellectual Property Organization and major scientific and technical publishers.

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Biochemistry

Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.

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Biology

Biology is the scientific study of life.

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Biophysics

Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena.

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Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services.

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Book

A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Branches of microbiology

The branches of microbiology can be classified into pure and applied sciences.

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CAB International

CABI (legally CAB International, formerly Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux) is a nonprofit intergovernmental development and information organisation focusing primarily on agricultural and environmental issues in the developing world, and the creation, curation, and dissemination of scientific knowledge.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Cornell University Library

The Cornell University Library is the library system of Cornell University.

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Database

In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data.

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Ebook

An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

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Ecology

Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.

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Economics

Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Education

Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.

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Elsevier

Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.

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Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.

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Environmental science

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, meteorology, mathematics and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geography, and atmospheric science) to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems.

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Fishery

Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life or, more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place (a.k.a., fishing grounds).

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Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsOrganisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'alimentazione e l'agricoltura.

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Food science

Food science is the basic science and applied science of food; its scope starts at overlap with agricultural science and nutritional science and leads through the scientific aspects of food safety and food processing, informing the development of food technology.

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Forestry

Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and environmental benefits.

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HINARI

Hinari Access to Research for Health Programme was set up by the World Health Organization and major publishers to enable developing countries to access collections of biomedical and health literature.

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International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers

The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, known for short by the initials for the last part of its name, STM, is an international trade association organised and run for the benefit of scholarly, scientific, technical, medical and professional publishers.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is an American imprint of the American Dutch publishing conglomerate Wolters Kluwer.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.

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Nature Portfolio

Nature Portfolio (formerly known as Nature Publishing Group and Nature Research) is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in science and medicine.

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Nutrition

Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Peer review

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers).

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Pest control

Pest control is the regulation or management of a species defined as a pest; such as any animal, plant or fungus that impacts adversely on human activities or environment.

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Pretoria

Pretoria, is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa.

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Publishing

Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free.

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Research

Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge".

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Research4Life

Research4Life is a platform and website dedicated to making peer-reviewed knowledge public to students and researchers in lower income countries.

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Science and Development Network

Science and Development Network, also known as SciDev.net, is a not-for-profit organisation that produces news, views, and analysis about science and technology in the context of global development.

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Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication designed to further the progress of science by disseminating new research findings to the scientific community.

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Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.

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Soil science

Soil science is the study of soil as a natural resource on the surface of the Earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils; and these properties in relation to the use and management of soils.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGORA

Also known as AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture), Access to Global Online Research on Agriculture program.

, Wiley (publisher), Wiley-Blackwell, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, Yale University.

AGORA, the Glossary

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Agricultural research

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