About TEEAL
For many years, The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) has been improving access at institutions with limited Internet time and/or financial resources. It is a searchable, offline, digital library that contains mainly agriculturally-focused reference journals, as well as coverage in related subject areas. TEEAL is supplemented with documents produced in conjunction with programs and projects sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
The project is administered in partnership between the International Programs and the Information Technology Services (ITS) staff of Albert R. Mann Library. The TEEAL Project staff oversees production, distribution, outreach, marketing, and training. The Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA), formerly the TEEAL Africa Office, conducts awareness and training missions throughout the African continent.
The TEEAL Project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with additional placement support for eligible institutions being provided by The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA).
About the Collections
The Academic Journals
This collection is updated annually and consists of a growing number of prestigious, full-text reference journals that leading publishers such as Elsevier and Taylor & Francis have gifted to TEEAL users.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives, focused on health, poverty, and opportunity. Their initiatives tackle some of the world’s toughest problems in the area of global health and development. For each issue, they seek to fund innovative ideas that could help remove barriers that prevent people from making the most of their lives.
As one of the largest initiatives at the Foundation, the Agricultural Development program seeks to reduce poverty for thousands of small-holder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia through a multi-faceted approach. Its interventions support work in a number of focus areas, including farmer services and systems, research and development, policies and data, livestock, and crop value chains.
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
AGRA is an independent African-led and Africa-based organization formed in 2006 in response to a call from former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Committed to putting farmers at the center of the continent’s growing economy, AGRA’s investments are primarily focused on Africa’s family farmers – those cultivating crops and tending livestock on less than two hectares of land. With headquarters in Nairobi and offices in Ghana, Tanzania, Mali and Mozambique, it works with partners in 18 countries to serve millions of farmers and thousands of local agriculture businesses. AGRA’s collection highlight Africa-focused material drawing from investments that embrace food production practices that are environmentally sustainable and economically inclusive. Their programmatic foci include seed systems, soil health, market access, policy & advocacy, farmer organizations, innovative finance, and gender.
The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)
ATA is a strategy and delivery oriented government agency created to help accelerate the growth and transformation of Ethiopia’s agriculture sector. The Agency’s mandate is focused solely on improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers across the country. Based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the ATA was created to address systemic bottlenecks, catalyze transformation in the country’s agricultural sector, and support partners to execute new technologies, approaches, and interventions. The ATA collection reflects the agency’s work in its five main focus areas: production & productivity, agribusiness & markets, sustainable and inclusive growth, enhanced implementation capacity, and analytics.
All articles are in Portable Document Format (PDF) and open in Adobe® Reader®. Adobe Reader is provided free of charge with the TEEAL application and can be downloaded from the Help page.
No data are transmitted over the Internet at any time during your use of TEEAL. For further information about permitted use of TEEAL, please see the Help section.
About the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The TEEAL project would not be possible without support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Foundation has been an important source of funding for TEEAL since 2009, helping cover TEEAL’s costs of production and daily operations. The Gates Foundation has also supported TEEAL outreach and training efforts led by our Africa-based partner, ITOCA (Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa).
During TEEAL’s previous 2009-2013 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, TEEAL and ITOCA placed 115 new TEEAL sets in 14 target countries in sub-Saharan Africa. With the need for an offline collection still evident, a new grant from the Foundation is allowing for a redesign of TEEAL. TEEAL and ITOCA will also expand efforts to successfully place an additional 300 TEEAL sets in six target countries in Sub-Saharan Africa--Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda--as well as Bangladesh.
Key to the redesign of TEEAL is the inclusion of new research collections, the first of which is research conducted for the Gates Foundation’s Agricultural Development Team. Access to this material will also be provided through an online repository, www.AgriKnowledge.org.