Agricultural learning repositories (AgLR 2008) e-conference: Summary report

This report summarizes an e-conference sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. On a whole, the conference had limited but diverse participation. There was involvement from every major world region, with the single greatest number of participants from India, followed by the United States. The conference held from 24 April to 15 June 2008 and resulted in the creation of an Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force. Interested in how agricultural knowledge exchange may be facilitated through online activities, the SANREM CRSP Knowledge base joined the task force in 2008 and is cited in the summary report.