FAIR provides transformative data practices to benefit donors, farmers, communities and countries.
In a bite-size format, the FAIR Journal delivers key insights, emergent knowledge, advocacy, and learning around the FAIR Principles. Discover international case studies, tools and resources to help activate FAIR in agriculture development.
The FAIR Journal is a quarterly, magazine-format digital resource curated by CABI. It supports the Enabling Data Access Phase 3 project (EDA3), funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) data can unlock future innovation and ensure information brings value to farmers, funders, communities and countries.
The FAIR Journal celebrates that potential with short-form news, insights, stories of impact and innovative research from the international FAIR community.
It also showcases tools and resources CABI is developing for EDA3, alongside best practice examples.
Catch up on previous journals below or contact FAIR@cabi.org to join the mailing list.
Editions of The FAIR Journal
Learn more about FAIR including news, views, explainers and research from agricultural development and the wider data ecosystem.
Explaining the potential benefits of FAIR data practices, its history and why improving data standards is crucial.
Introducing a framework which distils the process for implementing FAIR data practices in investments.
Sharing examples of resources, knowledge building, and influencing and advocating for FAIR data practices and management.
Why we need to change data culture in agricultural development so more people benefit from access to the right datasets.
How FAIR principles can be implemented practically in agricultural development investments and why this is needed urgently.
Demonstrating how FAIR and responsible data practices can benefit agricultural development and beyond including FAIR for AI.
Explore how FAIR practices can unlock value, and the potential economic and ROI gains of improved data practice.
#9 Where's the data?
FAIR Journal #9 is due this winter.
FAIR Process Framework
The FAIR Process Framework is a website designed to enable funders and grantees to apply the FAIR principles to agricultural development investments. It was co-developed with Programme Officers from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, grantees, in-country partners, and a wider network of stakeholders working with the CABI team.
Enabling FAIR data sharing and responsible data use
CABI is addressing constraints in realizing the value of data in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s investments by increasing the capacity and capability of Program Officers, grantees and national systems to initiate and manage change processes towards FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) and responsible data management.
Data policy and practice
The vast majority of smallholder farmers have little access to agricultural information or advisory services. Donors, understanding that digital development and the application of data can help bring practical knowledge and solutions to farmers, are increasingly investing in technology-focused grants and projects.