The World Reference Base (WRB) is an international system for classification of soils. It was designed to cater for any soil in the world. WRB has come forth from an initiative of FAO and UNESCO, supported by UNEP and the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS). (Adapted from ISRIC, 2023. World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) https://www.isric.org/explore/wrb)
Fish oil extraction is extraction of fish oils from fish and other organisms that live in the sea, and from cuttings from the fishing industry. (AGROVOC Team)
Fruit wines made from apples. (FAO & WHO. 2023. General Standard for Food Additives. Codex Standard, No. CXS 192-1995. Rome. https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius)
P. paliuri U. Braun, Taxonomic Manual of the Erysiphales (Powdery Mildews), CBS Biodiversity Series, 11: 265 (2012). (Kabaktepe, Sanli & Heluta, Vasyl & Akata, Ilgaz. (2015). Checklist of Powdery mildews (Erysiphales) in Turkey. Biological Diversity and Conservation. 8. 128-146. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288833678_Checklist_of_Powdery_mildews_Erysiphales_in_Turkey)
A large piece of floating ice protruding about 5 m above sea-level, which has broken away from an Arctic ice shelf, having a thickness of 30-50 m and an area of from a few thousand square metres to 500 square kilometres or more, and usually characterized by a regularly undulating surface which gives it a ribbed appearance from the air. (WMO No. 259 in UNTERM)
A length of stream with a steep gravel, pebble and/or cobble dominated bed, a fast flow and a broken water surface, where the water flows swiftly over the completely or partially submerged substrate. (Adapted from: RiverWiki. 2024. Restoring Europes Rivers. https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Pool-riffle)
Cryptic species can be broadly defined as two or more species that have historically been, or are currently classified as the same species due to morphological similarities that make them visually indistinguishable. (Bickford, D., Lohman, D. J., Sodhi, N. S., Ng, P. K., Meier, R., Winker, K., Ingram, K. K. & Das, I. (2007). Cryptic species as a window on diversity and conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22(3), 148–155)
The concept of institutional learning concerns the process through which new ways of working emerges. It concerns learning how to do things in new ways. It asks the question ‘what rules, habits and conventions have to be changed to do a new task or to do an old one better?’ (http://www.ncap.res.in/upload_files/policy_brief/pb21.pdf)
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language. It includes norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthography)
Value chain governance is the processes by which relationships and transactions among food value chain actors are governed and coordinated based on rules (formal and informal) and other factors (e.g. market power, trust, services). (FAO AG Department, 2015 (MP108).)
