Welcome to the CIARD R.I.N.G. Portal

A Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING)
for Agricultural Research for Development (ARD)

A registry of information sources/services in agriculture.

The services registered in the RING are described in details and categorized according to criteria that are relevant to the use of the service and its interoperability (such as metadata standards adopted, subject vocabularies used, technologies used, protocols implemented etc.).
The RING facilitates the discovery of sources of agriculture-related information across the world. [more >>]

All providers of ARD information services are invited
to register their services on this portal: see how

Distribution by type of service

Geographic distribution

Help us fill in the map by adding your resources to the RING
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The map above shows where the services available on this portal are maintained, independent of their physical hosting or their actual geographic scope / coverage.