IRC lexicon for FNSSA - International Research Consortium lexicon for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture

The Consortium Europe-Africa on Research and Innovation for Food Systems Transformation (CEA-FIRST) is a bicontinental effort put together to operationalise the International Research Consortium (IRC) as a long-term platform on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA). One of the objectives of Work Package 2 of this project is to consolidate the existing FNSSA knowledge management system (KMS) tools to facilitate public access and knowledge sharing on relevant research activities and results. In this context, we have built the IRC lexicon to be integrated into the IRC knowledge management platform to fulfil semantic analysis and indexing needs. IRC lexicon aims to encompass the relevant themes in relation to the FNSSA roadmap. The lexicon is the combination of 4 existing semantic resources, i.e. inputs to construct the final lexicon: The FNSSA database keywords, corresponding to the keywords used by SLU librarians to tag the documents’ topics The LEAP4FNSSA lexicon, built during the first stage of the project (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235234092200885X) KEOPS lexicon, built to address specific thematic in side-projects (climate change, food security) ASSET lexicon, dealing with agroecology (https://dataverse.cirad.fr/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.18167/DVN1/TVN3AC) These lexicons were merged and organized through several iterative steps involving two librarians (AL and AO), two researchers in text-mining (MR and SV) and a specialist in Information Management and KMS tools (TH). AL and AO validated the final version, ensuring that all keywords were categorized into their proper concept. The IRC lexicon is divided into 25 concepts containing a total of 1779 keywords, including 17 priority concepts (priority themes in the roadmap) : Agricultural intensification: 75 keywords Agroecology: 129 keywords By-products: 33 keywords Crops: 134 keywords Economy: 65 keywords Food product: 29 keywords Food security: 33 keywords Food value chains and market: 113 keywords Innovation: 68 keywords Land use: 60 keywords Livestock and animal production: 52 keywords Nutrition: 60 keywords Plant and soil health: 106 keywords Research and knowledge sharing: 79 keywords Types of agriculture: 53 keywords Water management: 85 keywords Weather conditions: 41 keywords and 8 non-priority concepts (themes less relevant to address the FNSSA roadmap) : Climate change: 78 keywords Climate science: 51 keywords Crisis: 105 keywords Energy: 21 keywords General: 73 keywords Infrastructure: 13 keywords One Health: 110 keywords Social and cultural: 113 keywords