1. Career possibilities in International
Organizations
Discussion with students from Umea University
Dr. Johannes Keizer
Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Presentations by Johannes Keizer is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

2. http://www.fao.org
http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

3. Strategic Framework
http://www.fao.org/docrep/x3551e/x3551e02.htm
 Goal 1: Access of all people at all times to
sufficient nutritionally adequate and safe food,
ensuring that the number of undernourished
people is reduced by half by no later than 2015.
 Goal 2: The continued contribution of sustainable
agriculture and rural development, including
fisheries and forestry, to economic and social
progress and the well-being of all.
 Goal 3 :The conservation, improvement and
sustainable utilization of natural resources,
including land, water, forest, fisheries and genetic
resources for food and agriculture.
http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

4. Mission
Over the next 15 years, FAO will assist Members in:
iii.reducing food insecurity and rural poverty;
iv. ensuring an enabling policy and regulatory framework
for food and agriculture, fisheries and forestry;
v. securing sustainable increases in the supply and
availability of food;
vi.conserving and enhancing the natural resource base;
and
vii.generating knowledge of food and agriculture,
fisheries and forestry.
http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

5. Examples from
the work of
my team

6. http://www.ciard.net
http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

7. Data and Information in Agricultural Research and
Extension
http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

8. Today……
Territory size shows proportion of scientific papers
published in 2001 by authors living there.
Copyright SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan)
http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

9. …..and tomorrow
http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

10. Going simply from here…to
tats
ene banks
is data
logs,
ournals
pen archives
aw data
http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

11. Distributed Data Sets
tats
? ?
ene banks
is data
logs,
ournals
How to make value added services?
pen archives
aw data
echnologies
earning objects http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

12. Distributed Data Sets
tats
ene banks
is data
logs,
ournals
How to infere knowledge?
pen archives
aw data
echnologies
earning objects http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

13. Distributed Data Sets
tats
How can I get in real time all the specimen data on useful insects
ene banks
from all people making research on this on my desktop? How can
I share in real time my data with other colleagues working on that.
is data
logs,
How to organize collaboration?
ournals
pen archives
aw data
echnologies
earning objects http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

14. http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

15. http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

16. http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

17. http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

18. Career path jk
http://aims.fao.or johannes keizer

19. Questions?