Yesterday’s Nibble scared me, I don’t mind admitting. So many meetings and other events going on, all over the world, all the time. What is a poor boy interested in agrobiodiversity to do to keep track?
Here’s what, since you ask. What we need is an app — or a real live human being, I don’t care — to regularly go through the following online calendars, extract the events of most obvious relevance to agricultural biodiversity, and plonk them on another, bespoke online calendar:
- CGIAR
- Young Professionals for Young Professionals in Agricultural Research for Development
- Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
- Agrifeeds
- Convention on Biological Diversity
Now, you tell me, is that too much to ask for?
LATER: Cédric makes some additional suggestions in a comment, but I only really like these two:
Depends. How much would you pay?
Let’s start with nothing, and take it from there.
Time consuming? Yes. Debilitating? Yes. Hard? Not particularly. A nice little side job for the new staff at GCDT? Definitely.
No easy way to automate everything: RSS feeds and AlertBox (Firefox add-on) work best for me (only random/sporadic harvest). However, most online calendars are organised by month (I know) and it’s often complicated to get notifications when new content is added to them. Tricks with printer-friendly versions of webpage may help.
Add this to the list (FYI):
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/en/
http://www.cirad.fr/actualites/tout-l-agenda
http://www.sfiar.ch/events.htm
https://www.agriskmanagementforum.org/uevents
http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/get-involved/events (?)
http://www.iisd.ca/ Food Security not one their thematic group though.
https://fsc.uni-hohenheim.de/77480
And this one handy too.
http://www.geo-tasks.org/meetings_sandt/fraud_meetings.php
This looks like it could be an answer: http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/
FAQs: http://blog.jonudell.net/elmcity-project-faq/
The main issue is that you need the calendar feeds, which aren’t obvious on the sites that you mention.