About AgroEco

AgroEco is an agroecological knowledge base built for academic researchers and AI / bot consumers. It curates atomic claims (pest, pathogen, beneficial, pollinator, mycorrhizal, soil, and crop-trait relationships) from open-access scientific literature, exposing each verified claim with full source provenance.

What you should know before citing

These claims have NOT been human-reviewed. Always read the verbatim quote alongside the original source before citing in your own work.

License & reuse

AgroEco distinguishes between three layers of content with different reuse rules:

• Claim metadata, entity records, and aggregate statistics produced by this project (the structure linking claims to entities, sources, regions, and GloBI terms) are released under CC BY 4.0. Cite AgroEco when reusing.
• Verbatim source quotes shown on each claim page are reproduced under fair-use / academic-quotation principles. They retain the license of the original source, which is displayed next to the quote (CC-BY, CC0, public-domain, USDA-PD, etc.). Redistribution of a quote beyond what the source license permits is your responsibility, not AgroEco's.

Who runs this

AgroEco is developed by Vivek LeBouef, a graduate student in the Sustainable Agriculture program at the University of Guam (UOG).

ORCID: 0009-0003-9406-950X

Contact: [email protected]

Funding & sustainability

Development to date has been unfunded. A funding application is in progress to support the next development phases — corpus expansion beyond open-access sources, an AI-consumable MCP server interface so other agentic systems can query verified claims with full provenance, and academic and extension partnerships. Inquiries from funders, research collaborators, and academic partners are welcome at the contact address above.

Project status

Phase 5b (this site) is in v1 — Astro 5 + Tailwind 4 + better-sqlite3 + Pagefind, statically deployed to Cloudflare Pages on the custom domain agroeco.io (added 2026-05-18). Each deploy rebuilds the static surface from the underlying SQLite snapshot — this means the site is a reproducible, build-pinned dataset rather than a live mutable database. The MCP server (Phase 5a) and human-review UI (Phase 4) are upcoming.