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- 2. what is eldis and what do we do? • A broad-based online gateway to development information, hosted at the Institute of Development Studies, UK. • Knowledge sharing and dissemination role, supporting the the documentation, exchange and use of evidence-based development information • Communicate this knowledge effectively through a range of appropriately designed services, using the internet as the main delivery channel • Prioritise developing country publications • High demand: 150,000 visitors/month – roughly 1/3 in the South
- 3. key eldis services • 18,000 free, online full-text documents and document abstracts • Eldis Subject Guides- including agriculture, food security and environment. • Eldis Country Profiles • subscribe to email newsletters highlighting new Eldis content • Community areas •CD-ROM distribution programme
- 5. ‘new innovations’ - Eldis OnDisc • Eldis OnDisc CD-ROM programme being rolled out now for users with poor internet connectivity. • Currently general disc only (ca. 850 documents), but a thematic agriculture disc planned • Free to all subscribers!
- 6. ‘new innovations’ - Eldis Community • Online ‘social networking’- type platform • Aim to facilitate better interaction with our users, support online community formation (including CoP), and provide interactive space for posting messages, documents, holding group discussions, and project spaces. • Powerful networking tool, increases exposure to other but related development communities. • Email integration for those with slow connections • Free to all subscribers!
- 7. • Research consortium aiming to encourage critical debate and policy dialogue on the future of agriculture in Africa • Working with local partner organisations in Malawi, Ethiopia and Kenya • Themes: Policy processes, growth and social protection, agricultural commercialisations, and now technology and innovation. 7
- 8. Forthcoming technology/Innovation theme will address, among others: • How can agricultural technology be made to work for the poor? What are the implications for technology choice and priority setting mechanisms? • How are technology trajectories linked to processes of agrarian/livelihood change in different settings? • What should be the roles of public and private sectors (both international and national) in technology development? • How is access to technology options constrained? What alternatives exist? • How should national/regional innovation systems look to deliver inputs for small farmers? 8
- 9. come visit us! www.eldis.org www.future-agricultures.org Eldis OnDisc CDs and Future Agricultures briefings are available to collect from the Secretariat office (Sapphire Room)
- 10. come visit us! www.eldis.org www.future-agricultures.org Eldis OnDisc CDs and Future Agricultures briefings are available to collect from the Secretariat office (Sapphire Room)
Notas del editor
- Eldis is hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, UK The URL is: http://www.eldis.org
- continually growing collection of editorially selected and abstracted full-text, online documents selected by our editors from more than 4000 different publishers. All documents are available free of charge Our 30 subject-focused guides offer quick access to key documents, organisations, research themes, discussions and other key resources Offers materials from our database arranged by country, plus quick links to country briefing services on other websites Provide added context and more comprehensive reading guides Email newsletters: talk more about these later community area where we have our own interactive blogging space, where we host discussions, and offer community spaces with partners.
- OK, so this is what the subject guide homepage looks like. It has a similar layout with a featured document at the top, new additions to the guide underneath, search bar at the top left, and links to guide content as well as broader links out to Eldis website features. But whats most interesting here is the column of subject subthemes on the right, some which are obviously directly linked to agriculture ( such as the themes of farmer participation in research and agricultural credit and insurance), but others demonstrate the wider links agriculture has with other areas, such as biodiversity and sustainable livelihoods and food marketing and pricing. But now lets have a closer look at one of the document summaries, in this case I’ll link to the feature at the top, which is actually a recent FAO / ILO / IUF publication….
- earlier I briefly mentioned our email reporters. end: if you’d like to sign up for these, just go to the Eldis homepage.
- earlier I briefly mentioned our email reporters. end: if you’d like to sign up for these, just go to the Eldis homepage.