IFLA 2010: Current trends in agricultural information services for farmers

The agricultual libraries session of IFLA 2010 comprises the following contributions:

• 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)