 Let me just start to talk about, you know, this, this, AgriS network. So AgriS network is, is a collaborative network of organizations, which makes, you know, the AgriS exists by sharing the bibliographic records in this, you know, in this big, you know, sphere. And basically the network is the community behind the AgriS database. And there are actually two key points or two key elements that I should be underlying while speaking about AgriS network, which they have already actually touched in the first hour. And I was saying that AgriS network, sorry, the, this, you know, collaborative, you know, network of organizations is the community actually behind AgriS database. And these organizations, they are actually just, you know, sharing their bibliographic records of the scholarly outputs or any other research outputs that they produce, and they actually make AgriS exist in the end. And I was trying to, and I was trying to underline that these two key elements, you know, in the network when we are talking about it, and one of them is the multilingualism, and the other ones, the equitable representation of different communities, different languages from all over the world, but especially from the global south. This is particularly important for AgriS because we really believe that this brings the diversity in terms of this landscape that we actually create with AgriS. And I will touch upon, you know, these things a bit later in a bit more detail. But we, you know, we kept saying that, you know, not everything has been, sorry, has been produced in the agricultural sciences, especially in the pure literature, or in the journal articles, but we really try to go beyond that. And, and we also try to go beyond English dominant, you know, scholarly communications. So I just wanted to reinforce here that AgriS network itself is a key, key element to ensure that AgriS is a database contained and, you know, continue to provide a diverse content from relevant stakeholders from different stakeholders in the community. Perhaps one last thing to say here is that, like Ima said, AgriS has a long history. It has been around, you know, for about 48 years. That is quite a long time. So since it started, it really evolved. It changed a lot. There has been many revisions. And in the last few years, what we are trying to do is also revisit this, this concept, revisit the AgriS network, and we are trying to reconnect with the data providers itself. Obviously, when we are talking about AgriS network, there is also the users. We always put users, you know, separately here, but obviously our AgriS users are as important as the network. And what it happens is that so our data provider organizations are channeling the communication with these local communities and local needs and local users. So, you know, between the FAO's AgriS team and themselves and the users, so that actually we can feed AgriS services and improvements and all the decisions make based on their needs. And that, therefore, you know, their feedback is very, very important to us and all these continuous improvements are also thanks to the users, obviously. I'm just checking whether any other points that I wanted to make it this on this slide. Right. So we work with the organizations, but also as well as, you know, the users just to say. Let me just move to these, you know, why questions. If you ask, you know, I'm directly a few questions about why to become a part of AgriS. Overall, the main benefits are AgriS itself and AgriS network joining the network is a free thing. And by contributing to AgriS with their bibliographic records, with their research outputs to organizations benefiting from being part of a dynamic international network with a focus on the agricultural content, which is very much accessible, intensively used, we saw this on the Google's analytics so far, and it's massively distributed, and we've seen that on the maps in the global information landscape. And they are all in the network, our partners, I also say, these organizations are jointly contributing to the international science. They're exchanging information data sets between different countries, regions, stakeholders, and this also makes this obviously increasing the visibility to the broader international audience in the scholarly landscape. They are sharing the sharing unit materials. We already mentioned the great literature and also all the, you know, the research outputs, you know, beyond this period of literature. And also there are unpublished scientific technical reports, governmental publications, conference materials, data sets and so on. So they are able to share these things to this network. So here I'm talking about more specific benefits to the organizations, but also the collections of their of these organizations. AgriS increases the visibility of these partner organizations in the network at the global level. I will try to be specific and what it means. I will talk about this when we talk about this visibility in my later slides. On the second level, it also increases the usage of the institutional research outputs, because not only visibility at the organizational profiles in the networks, but we also give spotlight, we do spotlight the institutional collections. Since infrastructure, the technical ability and the capability at the back end, it enables all the discoverability on the web. We talked about the Google Analytics, but in the same way in all actually search engines with the infrastructure actually functionalities in AgriS really increases this discoverability, level of discoverability. It offers multilinguality, I will go into a bit more detail in that, but AgriWalk, the multinational multilingual Tessara's input on agriculture, we are using that at the back end to create that multilinguality. And AgriS itself is creates just a knowledge sharing network between among the members and also, and also between the FAO and the network itself. And it also creates great opportunities for further collaborations. Again, not only between the FAO and these partners, but also we also have, we also know great example of these collaborations between the institutions within the network. We briefly talked about this, but when you go back to the earlier years in the AgriS network, look at this map from the 1978, we were looking at this several weeks ago and thinking about how we expanded since then and how actually AgriS evolved since then. Because when you look at this map, the first thing is that you see all these new green areas, it's well spread by then even, but the main difference was by then there was only one organization connected to AgriS inter-country. But when you look at the same picture today, as Emma showed us before, she used this slide before, there are actually now 447 data providers from many different countries and there are many in one country. You can also see like, yeah, we already mentioned there are more than 20 data providers in the brown areas, there are between 10 and 20 data providers in the green areas. This goes on and on and on. We also have some pending applications, I will also touch upon that a little bit later with some reasoning while they are actually waiting. I wanted to just reinforce this user statistics, especially when it comes to why questions. We received, AgriS received quite high user statistics and this is like from the current numbers are about 10 million page. We use the yearly and in this graphic you see the comparison between the two quarters of the years from 2020 and 2021. And what it shows to you is that there is, you know, 22% increase in the users. There are new users, you know, coming and visiting AgriS 23%. There are 14% more sessions have been opened. Maybe this could also be an flight answer to the questions whether pandemic and all this in the online environments that we have to work from also forced us to do to use more actual online resources. This could also be the reason, but there's a there's a great increase. When it comes to benefits, our active members really benefit from this high use at all of our data providers and members either active or non active, they are actually benefiting from this high use. But obviously our active members make more of these usage in their own local environment so I will try and give a little bit information about that. Another beauty about these statistics, each of our data providers have access to their institutional statistics, and they can assess the impact and the usage. And they can, you know, they can actually make decisions informed decisions based on these statistics. If they want to, some of them they do we know that they can also report at their organizations whether this partnership between AgriS network and FAO makes any, you know, positive impact or negative impact or what to improve in the long run. This just gives you more data to play with in terms of the partnership with the AgriS network in the AgriS network. Right. So, we said that AgriS evolved a lot, because you know it has a long history and the AgriS network since we started, you know, it just went through quite a lot of, you know, changes. And there has been some kind of renovation, we should also say, but AgriS network is what, as I already described, this is the community of the organizations but not individuals. Organizations, they collect and contribute their research outputs about food and agriculture literature, but also they participate in the knowledge sharing activities. So, currently, these two big chunk of responsibilities only contributing with, you know, by sharing the bibliographic records and also participating in the knowledge sharing activities. They create a different, different set of responsibilities or the task, if you like, in the network. That's why we have two elements, we have everybody or all the organizations are data providers, but we also have different concepts or separate concepts as country helps, which is something new, but I will explain why we say new in a way. Let's look at the data providers in a bit more detail. So we said, these are the organizations and they are contributing with the metadata or bibliographic records in another term to the content of the AgriS, to the AgriS database. And these data providers could be research centers, they could be academic institutions, there was a question from one of our participants today, whether academic institutions can be part of it or not. They're happy to have universities and academic institutions in the network. There are many, many public issues. For example, with these, we have development research programs, international and national organizations within the network. You can actually go and check these things yourself and I will try to make a point how to do this on the AgriS portal. So country helps, so let's look at them in a bit more focused and detailed way. Again, our country helps are also data providers, but they also act as a focal point for AgriS at country and regional level. Usually, it happens at the country level, but we also have some fantastic, very active country helps. They also work in their regions, you know, collaborating with others from different countries. They are also known, these country helps known as National AgriS Centers. This is this may be quite important when we say the National AgriS Centers, they actually existed, you know, since we started from 1974. Again, this role and these responsibilities really evolved over time. And some of them even disappeared and some of them actually took more and different roles in where they are operates. And some of them great, we are very much appreciating that and they're just contributing to the AgriS database itself. The country helps are now responsible these, you know, additional roles that they take, they promote AgriS in their countries, they guide eligible partners existing and the potential ones in joining AgriS network. Sorry, yeah, in joining AgriS network and also in submitting information about the resources. Again, we say description of the resources and the metadata. They also coordinate capacity development activities. Again, they may not always, you know, do these couples to developments themselves. Sometimes they do collaborate with us. Sometimes they do collaborate with other countries or with other stakeholders within their countries, but we are happily working with them very closely around these activities. I will try to give you a couple of examples from that. For instance, here, there are country helps very fantastic, you know, active country helps they are organizing local events, webinars to facilitate this knowledge sharing. As I said, sometimes we are being part of them, part of them, we are trying to support the information that they can disseminate today users or to local communities. And some of the recent examples, especially in the last quarter of 2020 and also in this year, for instance, State Agrarian University of Moldova organize a roundtable that's a high level roundtable to encourage researchers and institutions in Moldova. To use our grace, not only as information resource but also about how they can actually become agris data providers. Another great example was from Georgia. Our data provider Institute taking for me off Georgian Technical University, they gathered institutions organizations from different countries, including Albania, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Republic of North Macedonia, Ukraine, Armenia, Moldova for a two day artisan art agro workshop. And so we are so happy to see these knowledge sharing activities across the network and we're happy to be part of it, we're happy to promote these things ourselves in the agris network. So these are just two examples but there are more about them so on the agris portal you might also, you know, explore more of those things and we are happy to share that on our newsletters etc. I will also point that out how to see these news ourselves. Let's move from those knowledge sharing activities we said. We also, you know, now we say agris network is also undertaking activities about capacity development. This is quite important because especially in terms of sustaining this successful, you know, activities and or whatever success or whatever lessons that we learned within the network. This capacity development activities takes place so that we can either create awareness, or we can actually, we can actually gain. We can actually build the competences, you know, in other people in other organizations so that they can, you know, learn from these experiences, and from these lessons and they can do more with them. So that's why these activities take place regularly in the network. Hopefully one day they will also be in person, but at the moment it's mainly virtually. This is to strengthen this collaboration among the members, create new opportunities to work together and to learn from each other. So for knowledge sharing and build competences, as I said. So these these channels, you know, are used for capacity development changes and it's quite, you know, diverse. We use the annual meetings like today to tell you what we are doing and how you can benefit from the network and from the database and how we can work together. We can also use or we do use webinar sessions. We have community calls. We do work and create guidelines and publications for our network members. Sometimes even together with them because they are great help, especially translating these publications and guidelines in their own languages and that is that is really crucial to work beyond our, you know, well known or dominant in our languages. And just one last, you know, something to enforce. So there's this knowledge sharing in the Argus network exchange of experience and learning from each other within the network are the key element for our community and we do our best to keep and support that process and activities. This is a little bit, a little news and actually big news but hopefully it will also materialize, you know, towards the end of the year but we wanted to share this news with you. FAO has a great experience in, a long experience in online training programs and we told, we should really move some of these training activities into these, you know, online mini programs and this is basically to increase and strengthen the knowledge sharing among the network organizations. There'll be just a new layer of these in a couple is the development program. If this is to be released in last quarter of the year, probably around, you know, November, December, and these mini online training programs will be self-paced focused topics. And these topics will include how to use Argus effectively, how to enhance the metadata quality and how to use vocabularies like Agrawalk in your digital collections. And hopefully we will be piloting this at the end of this year and when we are piloting before and after and during this pilot, we are just looking forward to get your feedback to improve that and release it fully in the next year. Right. We do also in the network, a lot of outreach and communication activities. And if you look at the portal, you may wonder about these different terminologies. When I say Agris portal, I'm talking about the Agris, sorry FAO.org slash Agris. That is the place that you can actually find everything about Agris, Agris network and Agris database. You can see the news or Agris network in your Arduino guidance. But this portal offers an environment for the network members to share their news, like I showed before to you from Moldova and Georgia examples. And their events with the wider community. They can also access guides and help pages to become a data provider and how to contribute. They can also follow the latest activities of Agris. Let's look at them a bit more closely. Agris portal, you can see the latest news, for instance, I don't know whether you can actually see my mouse going over them, but there's also a sign up icon just to sign up for the for the newsletter to stay up to date. There are latest activities, there are latest news, and there's also video playlist that you may be interested to see you know what has been recorded or what maybe now was available on that playlist. You can see under the activity tab, you should also be able to see all the publications, all the meetings and webinars, like we pointed out, you know, with the arrows here. So if you have any, again, within the Agris, for Agris database to create a variance for your users or any collaboration within the network. If you have any news item like this, we would be, we would be so happy actually to publish them on the on the Agris portal so please get in touch with them with us if you haven't done that yet. I mentioned that, but this guides and publications, but our ourselves, we do create, you know, for our organizations guides and publications, and we work very closely with these active country hubs to translate these publications, for instance, I have here a user guide example translated into Armenian and Georgian. So this is actually creates great things to especially when you are communicating with your local communities. Right. I think this is my last slide, but what I want to say here so up to up to here what I try to describe to you what Agris network is, what are the different layers. But layers, but actually different roles. If you want to do more than just contributing the research outputs and the bibliographic records in the Agris database, but if you want to become a focal point, do more knowledge sharing activities or open programs and work with us for more. And we're happy to actually hear from you. On the other hand, we are trying to channel all the names with you, especially through the this this Agris group mailing list to stay up to date. So just join us if you're not already on this list, our all data providers actually is part of this list, but beyond that anybody is interested in what is happening in the Agris network, or about the Agris database any of the improvements, either at the technical side or the user interface, etc. So we are actually sharing these names on the Agris, the group state. Right here I will just in my, sorry, sorry, no, actually I'm just going ahead with myself. I'm sorry. Just one last couple of things that I would like to share and underline, you have great testimonials from our data providers active data providers. For instance, here what you see a quote from Serbia, our fantastic colleague Marina and the judges from Matika Sirska library, Serbia. Let me just read that for you first. She said, in Serbia, we primarily use Agris to share and spread scientific agricultural information from our country, both in full text and metadata. Sorry. I think this is a great quote in terms of underlying the, especially just, you know, having all metadata and the full text itself, you know, in this in this Agris and the importance of that. And secondly, indeed, here is another, you know, great quote from Belarus, our colleague Veronica Babarka, I'm really sorry for my poor pronunciation. She's from Belarus Agricultural Library. We have a great collaboration with them and she said Agris is a service that allows the import of global information in agricultural and food sciences for Belarusian science scientists, specialists and practicals. At the same time, Agris is a service that allows the export of Belarusian scientific knowledge in the fields of agriculture, forestry, food and natural resources into the global information space. This is particularly important for us because this is also where it where Agris becomes a hybrid, you know, service. We usually talk about Agris as a service provider, but in case of, for instance, Belarus Agricultural Library, Agris is also is also acting as a data provider because they are exposing their research output directly in the Agris, and we are happy to provide them actually this infrastructure. That's why it is quite important. So, now I will invite Emma to take over from me to introduce our panelists and our guest speakers here. Right. So thank you so much, because you might need to pin me, otherwise people will not see me. I will, I will just do that. So, I would like to welcome Roswellia Gomez, if she's the director of the National Center for Agricultural Information and Documentation Sanita of the National Agrarian University of Nicaragua. This is Roswellia Gomez, who is the deputy director at the Republic Scientific Agricultural Library of the State Agrarian, Agrarian University of Nicaragua. To both of them. Yes, we'll come. So if I have the chance to bring them to the screen. I will just stop my share screen. I'm sorry. Right. So, yeah, I see already. I'm just doing this. Good morning to all of you. I would like to thank FAU for being organizing this event, a very important event for the agricultural sector of our country. And especially Emma, right, for having invited me in this space. And I want to take this opportunity to share with you what we are doing in Central America. And how this can be an opportunity to participate in agribusiness. Well, this system was remembering when I was talking to you that the records were sent in formats before, right? And they were also sent in CD. And the reality of things is that Senida has been a member of agribusiness for many years, right? But certainly, this system has changed a lot, has evolved a lot. Well, I would like to share with you that this conference brings us a lot of challenges. And it brings us a lot of challenges, especially in Latin America and Central America countries. This is because, in this sense, Nicaragua has come to develop a collaborative work with the Nicaraguan network of information and agrarian documentation of Nicaragua. But we are also participating in other important space at the level of Central America as is the Central American documental information system. And a product of this system, we have guaranteed a Central American repository that for us we consider a treasure. A treasure because 18 public universities in Central America are currently participating. And that this has really been an effort. In the same way, we also have many years and we are members of the CIDAL Alliance, which is coordinated by the Costa Rica League. And these are spaces where Central America is really visible. And I plan it because as a member of these spaces at the national and regional level, it has allowed us to develop very specific products that we can share with this system. And the other important thing is that these products have been conceived with a vision of sharing information and really managing the knowledge. Today, as I said, we have a Central American repository. The other thing is that also working online means a lot of commitment and consistency. This is what has allowed and this is also the example of Agris, because really, because 47 years is a lot. It is a lot because you really see all organized work coordinated and certainly the support of FAO is important in these initiatives to be able to continue to strengthen it. Agris is a global network that has gone through several stages. And obviously with the support of FAO, it has been able to lead with professionalism the management of information at a global level. And then in this last year, Agris has revolutionized amazingly. And as the motto of the conference says, we are not going to win hunger if we do not share knowledge. And to give life to this motto, we have to look for strategies to integrate into other countries and strategies that allow us to really be able to overcome that barrier, maybe the language, maybe technological difficulties that we can have, even the lack of knowledge of this type of initiative, because this raises challenges in the sense that we have to promote this type of initiative at the level of our countries. And at the level of our countries so that the scientific production of our countries is visible to the world. And Agris gives us this space, this space that seems to me to be very important. Something I also see as a main challenge is that we have to know more about Agris and achieve that the knowledge generated in our countries has been shared and visible to the world for the development of agricultural research. What does this mean? Central America is also, we have a very interesting initiative with three countries, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. We have a portal of the scientific magazines. And this is also another space that we have to take advantage of to be able to share it and that Agris is also that system that helps us promote what we are doing at Central America. Because certainly Central America is generating information, is publishing, but we need those spaces of visibility. And mainly we need those spaces of collaboration with other countries, so that the production that is generated at the level of our region can be shared and can be shared in a better space than the Agris system to share these initiatives. And I would also like to tell you that, at the level of our country, we have a series of institutions, we have a system of university libraries that is also working in this strengthening of national repositories. But also one of the challenges, I think that we must also consider this annual conference of Agris, is how to strengthen the networks at the level of each of the countries, but also the networks at the level of the regions. I think it is very important, we have a sidal platform where we have really done an extraordinary job and I think it is an opportunity to be able to see what we have at Central America in this system. And finally, I would like to express my commitment and my institution, the National Agrarian University of Nicaragua, to continue being part of this system and also to be able to share the information that we generate and promote this system not only in Nicaragua, but also in all the countries of Central America and also in Latin America, because we certainly have contacts at the level of all these countries and we really need to integrate it into this international system for agri-agriculated science and technology. Thank you. Thank you, Ruth. The next speaker is Biorica Lupu. Biorica, please stay with the webcam on, thank you. Biorica is going to speak in English, so do you have to worry about interpretation? Correct, Biorica, you will speak in English. Yes. Okay, over to you, Biorica, thank you. Hello, everyone. Thank you, Ima, for introducing me. I am glad to share with you our experience and the aggress relevance of the agricultural community from the Republic of Moldova. Since 2004, the Republican Scientific Agricultural Library of the State Agrarian University of Moldova has been functioning as the official National Agri Center. And in 2020, the library was nominated as the Agri National Habit in the Republic of Moldova. Since that period, the library contributed to Agris with about 5,000 records, sub-bibliographic records of journal articles, conference papers, dissertation, and other content types. There are many benefits of the library participation in Agris. Agris offers a big opportunity to agricultural institution from the Republic of Moldova to be part of advantages and dynamic international network and also to contribute to the promotion and Moldavian scientific research globally. Thus, Republic of Moldova benefits from an open and free service having the possibility to make its scientific results to be discovered through Agris without costs, other barriers and restrictions. Agris also opens agricultural science and research from the Republic of Moldova to a wider audience and contributes to the easier discovery of publication to increase the visibility of global research and the citation of Moldavian authors. So Moldavian authors can easily communicate with other researchers from other countries. Agris has a comprehensive collection of documents which satisfy users' information and research needs. Agris improves the circulation of access to and transfer of scientific knowledge thus contributing to the evolution of agriculture, the formulation of agricultural policies, the development of appropriate strategies for development of agricultural and rural sectors. At the same time, Moldovan farmers having access to information and data can know the challenges faced by farmers in other countries and how to identify solutions to a specific issue. In the last years, Republic of Moldova had the privilege of collaborating more actively with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and organized a lot of activities dedicated to Agris. Some of them are information and awareness-racing activities for the agricultural community of Republic of Moldova on the value and importance of the Agris. Two editions of the round table, how can you work together to integrate national agricultural information in the global information space? It was organized a campaign to increase the visibility of your research through Agris which aimed to increase the collection and integration of scientific works of researchers from the Republic of Moldova in the international Agris systems. The Agris directory was launched on the library website to promote the library's activities in the Agris systems and we hope that in the future to extend our collaboration with our regarding to the data agricultural data sets and we are proud to be part of the Agris community because it offers many benefits, facilities and it is an opportunity for us of learning from each other how to do better to be open to this new experience and act together to do good things despite the difficulties. Thank you.