GODAN is a United Nations initiative created out of the Open Government Partnership Conference in October 2013 following 2012 G8 discussions. GODAN supports the proactive sharing of open dataOpen data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requireme... to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with the urgent challenge of ensuring world food security. GODAN promotes collaboration to harness the growing volume of data generated by new technologies to solve long-standing problems and to benefit farmers and the health of consumers.