The document discusses the role of AGROVOC, an open linked vocabulary developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It describes FAO's goal of making agricultural knowledge available globally and highlights key dynamics shaping information aggregation and distribution. It then demonstrates FAO's initiatives to link diverse data sources and develop applications like OpenAGRIS using AGROVOC as the backbone vocabulary to integrate information on topics like rural populations, cereal yields and fisheries. FAO is working to realize a vision of seamless access and sharing of agricultural data through linked open vocabularies and technologies.