2010 open session: Gothenburg, Sweden

Theme: Current trends in agricultural information services for farmers

• Current trends in agricultural information services for farmers in Trinidad and Tobago/Caribbean
  SHAMIN RENWICK (University of the West Indies, Agriculture and Life Sciences Division, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago)
• Information worlds of Chinese farmers and their implications for agricultural information services: a fresh look at ways to deliver effective services
  LIANGZHI YU (Nankai University, Department of Information Resource Management Tianjin, China)
• An investigation into the use of ICT in the provision of agricultural information to small scale farmers in Harare
  COLLENCE T. CHISITA (Information Science Faculty, Harare Polytechnic, Harare, Zimbabwe)
• Helping citizen farmers turn cities into gardens that serve multiple purposes
  BARBIE E. KEISER (Barbie E. Keiser, Inc., Alexandria, VA, USA)
• Open access repository for the Brazilian literature on agroecology
  MARIA DE CLÉOFAS FAGGION ALENCAR (Embrapa Environment, Jaguarína, SP, Brazil)
• Information to farmers: the role of CTA in facilitating agricultural information transfer to farmers and the work done by the Lengau Centre at the University of the Free State
  ERNÉNE VERSTER (Programme for Agricultural Information Services (PRAIS), Library and Information Services, University of the Free State, South Africa)
• Farmer- oriented information services: an overview
  DEVA ESWARA REDDY (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA)