FAO AGRIS is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO) International System for Agricultural Science and Technology, a global public domain database with structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology. By February 2025, the FAO AGRIS had more than 16 million records in over 123 languages. The FAO AGRIS search system, allows scientists, researchers, policymaker and students to perform sophisticated searches using keywords from specific journal titles or names of countries, institutions, and authors.

FAO AGRIS stands out in food and agriculture literature by equally prioritizing grey literature and peer-reviewed articles, recognizing the importance of diverse information sources. It enhances accessibility through AGROVOC, a multilingual thesaurus in over 40 languages, addressing the linguistic diversity in the field. Additionally, FAO AGRIS focuses on analyzing agricultural performance to inform investment, innovation, and policy, promoting sustainability in the agriculture sector.

Since 1974, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided support to its member countries to make their research outputs visible and accessible through the FAO AGRIS. The search system became operational in 1975 and the database was maintained by Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development, and its content is provided by more than 150 participating institutions from 65 countries.

As information management flourished in the 1970s, the FAO AGRIS metadata corpus was developed to allow its users to have free access to knowledge available in agricultural science and technology. FAO AGRIS was developed to be an international cooperative system to serve both developed and developing countries.

With the advent of the Internet, along with the promises offered by open access publishing, there was growing awareness that the management of agricultural science and technology information, would have various facets: standards and methodologies for interoperability and facilitation of knowledge exchange; tools to enable information management specialists to process data; information and knowledge exchange across countries. Common interoperability criteria were thus adopted in its implementation, and the FAO AGRIS AP metadata was accordingly created in order to allow exchange and retrieval of Agricultural information Resources.

Multilingualism is a defining characteristic of FAO as an international, intergovernmental agency and it also reflects the reality of global agricultural research, most of which is not conducted in English. Thus multilingualism is fundamental to FAO AGRIS, which indexes bibliographic records in over 123 languages from around the world.

FAO AGRIS was recognized in 2024 as Digital Public Good (DPG) certification from the Digital Public Good Alliance (DPGA). The DPG certification confirms that AGRIS meets rigorous standards of openness, interoperability, and adherence to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). It emphasizes FAO AGRIS's commitment to equitable access to high-quality agricultural knowledge, fostering collaboration, and supporting evidence-based decision-making globally. This certification underscores AGRIS's vital role in advancing sustainable agrifood systems and contributing to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

On June 13th, 2023, the FAO team responsible for FAO AGRIS announced the launch of FAO AGRIS 2.0. This new version introduces significant improvements to both the user interface and the underlying IT architecture, benefiting users and data providers alike.