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Living things that are neither human nor domesticated. Can include plants as well as animals. (Adapted from University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2007. Forest Stewardship Series 8: Forest Wildlife https://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8238.pdf)

The process that leads to an irreversible reduction in capability of an ecological site to produce vegetation. (Society for Range Management. 1998. Glossary of terms used in range management, fourth edition. Edited by the Glossary Update Task Group, Thomas E. Bedell, Chairman.)

Boat seines are a type of fishing gear which consist basically of a conical netting body, two relatively long wings and a bag. An important component for the capture efficiency of boat seines is the long ropes extending from the wings, which are used to encircle a large area. (FAO 2022. Fishing Gear types. Boat seines. Technology Fact Sheets. Fisheries and Aquaculture Division [online]. Rome. [Cited Monday, November 21st 2022]. https://www.fao.org/fishery/en/geartype/203/en)

Covers all aspects of statistical information pertaining to labour: productivity, wages, number of persons employed, etc. (UNBIS http://metadata.un.org/thesaurus/1003569)

An irrigation method in which crops are surrounded by a border to form a submersion check called basin, of round, square or any other form. Irrigation water generally comes directly from the supply ditch/canal or from other basins. It is a type of surface irrigation. (FAO. 2008. Glossary of aquaculture. https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/a1555m)

Drooping of stems and foliage due to loss of cell turgor. May be caused by water stress or by disease. (FAO, 2001. FAO Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture)

Detachment and transport of soil particles by wind. (FAO, 2017. Land Degradation Assessment in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Land and Water Division Working Paper No. 17, http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7744e.pdf)

Agropastoral systems are defined as those that, in addition to livestock production, involve some form of crop cultivation. These range from the transhumants who are opportunistic farmers (they plant a crop on their way north to wet season pastures, and harvest it on their way south), to sedentary farmers who raise only a few livestock, and do not transhume. And in between are many different degrees of transhumance, number of livestock raised, type of crops planted, etc. (Community Forestry: Herders' Decision-Making in Natural Resources Management in Arid and Semi-arid Africa (Community Forestry Note 4) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) http://www.fao.org/3/t6260e/t6260e02.htm)

Wind power or wind energy is the use of wind to provide the mechanical power through wind turbines to turn electric generators and traditionally to do other work, like milling or pumping. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power)

Small-scale irrigation can be defined as irrigation that farmers control themselves for cultivating small plots of land, using technologies and systems which they operate and maintain at the household level or in small groups or communities. (Bryan, Women and Small-Scale Irrigation: A Review of the Factors Influencing Gendered Patterns of Participation and Benefits. IFPRI Discussion Paper 02025 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134425)

Trees planted or arranged to protect something from the wind. (Adapted from Grazing with trees – A silvopastoral approach to managing and restoring trees. FAO Forestry Paper, No. 187, FAO, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.4060/cc2280en).)

Alluvial fans are morphological fanlike formations of small to extremely large sizes resulting in accumulation of clastic materials at the outputs of river flows from the narrow valley of mountain chains into lowland areas. (Introduction_to_Mineralogy_and_Petrology,_2014_https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-408133-8.00007-9)

A beekeeper is a person who keeps honey bees. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beekeeper)

Application rate: the quantity of substance (drugs, fertilizers, pesticides or other chemicals) applied per unit area including an element of time, for example per growing season or year. (AGROVOC Team)

Pseudomuscari is a genus of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomuscari)

A person engaged in aquaculture. (Leopold, M. (comp.) (1978) Glossary of inland fishery terms / Glossaire de termes utilisés dans le domaine des pêches intérieures. EIFAC Occasional Paper (12). )