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Re: FW: FAO Organic Farming Website



thanx for your tenacity and ability. a special thank
you for sharing.

-john flaim.

--- Nic Lampkin <nhl@ABER.AC.UK> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scialabba, Nadia (SDRN)
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 3:46 PM
> Subject: The baby is born!
>
> It took 9 month to develop and launch the Organic
> Agriculture website but we
> made it!
>
> Special thanks go to the WAICENT group for their
> spontaneous collaboration
> and especially to Virginie Viollier, THE skillful
> architect of the website.
> Frehiwot Fisseha is the author of the
> bibliographical search programme and
> thanks to her intelligent efforts, there will be no
> need to update the
> on-line search option. The ADGs of AG, ES and SD
> kindly provided the
> necessary funds for the multilingual translations.
>
> This website is therefore the fruit of collective
> support despite the fact
> that the work and funds it entailed were not planned
> in advance. I hope that
> you will all have the opportunity to note that this
> effort was worthwhile.
>
> The Website was released last week, on the occasion
> of the Regional
> Conference for Europe in Porto. Delegates at the
> Conference had a chance to
> surf the site and all 70 hard copies of the site
> made available at the
> WAICENT stand have been taken away by participants.
> The fact that delegates
> did not ask for assistance in searching the site is
> a sign that the website
> is user-friendly.
>
> In the future, users contacts with FAO will arrive
> to a specific mailbox
> (organicag) that can be accessed by all members of
> the Inter-Departmental
> Working Group on Organic Agriculture. In this way,
> the website becomes an
> inter-departmental "property". The corporate work of
> technical divisions on
> organic agriculture will be posted on this page.
> Departmental webpages
> having features on organic agriculture could link to
> this corporate website
> (and vice versa).
>
> The website is accessible through the main FAO Home
> Page or directly at
> http://www.fao.org/organicag
> <http://www.fao.org/organicag>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nadia


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