Open Access Progress and Promise in the CGIAR Consortium « Agro-Know blog

"A webinar on 'Open Access Progress and Promise in the CGIAR Consortium' took place on 10th of April at 11:00am (CEST). The presentation delivered by Piers Bocock, Director of Knowledge Management and Communication at the CGIAR Consortium, provided an overview and update on the CGIAR Consortium’s progress in Open Access, including some of the challenges and opportunities of advocating for Open Access across the Consortium. Piers Bocock is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the Consortium’s Knowledge Management, Communications, and IT strategies, leveraging best practices in these disciplines to help the Consortium deliver on its mandate. The session was moderated by Johannes Keizer, team leader of the FAO AIMS team of the United Nations. CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) is an international organisation which funds and co-ordinates research into agricultural crop breeding with the goal of 'reducing rural poverty, increasing food security, improving human health and nutrition, and ensuring more sustainable management of natural resources'."