Southern African Development Community

Access to Non-Spatial Information

Information from Regional Websites
This section present the user with a variety of publically available information on the web coming from a range of selected web-sited or sub-sections from web-sites, notably from: SADC Ministries, SADC Statistical Bodies, SADC Agricultural Universities and SADC NARS.

Information from Suggested Websites
This section present the user with a variety of publically available information on the web coming from a range of selected web-sites or sub-sections from web-sites,  by the SADC-AIMS community.

Information from International Databases
This section present the user with a variety of publically available information on Projects, Organizations, Documents, (Experts), (Images) and Good Practices on the web coming from a range of selected Databases, notably from: FAO, International Reseach Intitutions, Wageningen International, CABI and more.

Organizations
The functional specifications of this controlled organization directory are fully compliant with the Agricultural Information Management Standards to facilitate interoperability, reusability and cooperation.

It caters for easy sharing of Organizational Addresses through mapping to common schemas. In this case in vCard/hCard format as well as in Agricultural Organization Application Profile format.

Library
This controlled Library can hold various types of information, text-based, images or multi-media. It is fully compliant with the Dublin Core (DC) and AGRIS Application Profile  formats to facilitate indexing by search engines.