Ontologies
AGROVOC
AGROVOC (AGROVOC)
SKOS
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Last submission date July 1, 2026
Summary
Concepts
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Mappings
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General information

Abstract

AGROVOC covers all areas of interest to FAO, such as food, nutrition, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, names of animals and plants, environment, biological notions, techniques of plant cultivation, etc. The thesaurus is hierarchically organized under 25 top concepts. See more...

Description

AGROVOC is a multilingual and controlled vocabulary designed to cover concepts and terminology under FAO's areas of interest. It is a large Linked Open Data set about agriculture, available for public use, and its highest impact is through facilitating the access and visibility of data across domains and languages. See more...
Initial created on July 1, 2026. For additional information, contact Agrovoc (agrovoc@fao.org).

Languages

Categories

AG-ENG
AG-RES
AGRI
CULT
EARTH
ENV
FISH
FOREST
NAT-RES

Subjects

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Metrics

FAIR score

Total score : 316.75 ( 66.0%)
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Ontology relations network

Submissions

Identifiers

URI

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/

AgroPortal URI

https://agroportal.eu/ontologies/AGROVOC
https://agroportal.eu/ontologies/AGROVOC

Dates

Creation date

July 1, 2026

Submission date

July 1, 2026

Modification date

August 12, 2024

Agents

Contact

AGROVOC

Creator

Other links

Projects and usage information

Projects using AGROVOC

AGRIS
Agrisemantics Map of Data Standards
ANAEE Semantics
C4AI Knowledge Graph on Agricultural Prices
Data to Knowledge in Agronomy and Biodiversity
GO FAIR Food Systems Implementation Network
Maggot
RDA Wheat Interoperability Working Group

Known usage

http://www.fao.org/agris/
http://www.fao.org/agris/
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/
https://datenzentrum.bonares.de/research-data.php
https://datenzentrum.bonares.de/research-data.php
https://mel.cgiar.org/
https://mel.cgiar.org/
https://www.fao.org/publications/
https://www.fao.org/publications/

Designed for task (as defined by OMV).

http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#AnnotationTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#AnnotationTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IndexingTask
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#IndexingTask

Coverage

FAO's areas of interest

Methodology and provenance

Created with

VocBench

Accrual method

http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/maintenance
http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/maintenance

Accrual periodicity

http://purl.org/cld/freq/monthly
http://purl.org/cld/freq/monthly

Accrual policy

https://www.fao.org/agrovoc/maintenance
https://www.fao.org/agrovoc/maintenance

Community

Audience

Worldwide

Mailing list

https://dgroups.org/fao/agrovoc/join
https://dgroups.org/fao/agrovoc/join

To do list

To curate and add new concepts to the thesaurus. Translating and localizing the vocabulary content to as many languages as needed. Encourage use of AGROVOC to index and tag information resources for subsequent data retrieval.
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/

Notes

http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/news
http://www.fao.org/agrovoc/news
Since the early 1980's, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has coordinated AGROVOC, a multilingual and controlled vocabulary which is a valuable tool for data to be classified homogeneously, facilitating interoperability and reuse.
Since July 2025, AGROVOC is adopting a continous release approach with no more monthly releases.

Groups

Embrapa's Agrotermos conceptual space

Content

Root of obsolete branch

http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass
http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#ObsoleteClass

Identifier pattern

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/[0-9]{5}
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/[0-9]{5}

Preferred namespace URI

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/

Preferred namespace prefix

agrovoc

Example of resource

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_38445
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_38445

Metadata vocabulary used

skos

Visits

Views of AGROVOC

AGROVOC Brazilian Portuguese (AGROVOC-PT-BR)
Agrovoc pt-BR extract for integration into Agrotermos. This file establishes the link between Agrovoc and Agrotermos using the skos:inScheme property See more...