Food crops are those that provide basic sustenance for humans, including cereal crops, legume crops, and tuber crops. (Translated from CNTERM. 2024. CHINESE TERMS IN AGRONOMY 2024. https://www.cnterm.cn/news/tzgg/202407/P020250909517921360798.pdf)
An unexpected or unpredictable event that is external to the specific economy and can either harm or boost it. A global financial crisis causing bank lending or credit to fall, or an economic downturn in a major trading partner of a country both reflect demand-side shocks that can have multiple effects on spending and investment. A steep rise in oil and gas prices, natural disasters that result in sharp falls in production, or conflict that disrupts trade and production, are examples of supply-side shocks. (FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2025. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 – Addressing high food price inflation for food security and nutrition. Rome.https://doi.org/10.4060/cd6008en)
The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) is a species of beetle in the family Tenebrionidae, the darkling beetles. The red flour beetle, and other closely related beetles like the Gnatocerus cornutus, are a worldwide pest of stored products, particularly food grains, and a model organism for ethological and food safety research. (Wikipedia, 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flour_beetle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flour_beetle)
The confused flour beetle (Tribolium confusum), a type of darkling beetle known as a flour beetle, is a globally found, common pest insect known for attacking and infesting stored flour and grain. They are one of the most common and most destructive insect pests for grain and other food products stored in silos, warehouses, grocery stores, and homes. (Wikipedia, 2024. Confused flour beetle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_flour_beetlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_flour_beetle)
Refers to the addition of micronutrients to a food irrespective of whether the nutrients were originally in the food before processing or not. (Nutrition Division/Meeting Programming and Documentation Service, FAO, 2014 (MI198_Sec1); Guidelines on food fortification with micronutrients, WHO, 2006 (http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241594012_eng.pdf).)
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Enrichment has been used interchangeably with fortification (FAO/WHO, 1994), but elsewhere it has been defined as the restoration of vitamins and minerals lost during processing (Hoffpauer and Wright, 1994).
An important rank in the taxonomic hierarchy which is subordinate to family but above the rank of species. It is a group of obviously homogeneous species. Collections of genera (plural) are grouped into families. Large genera may be further subdivided into sections and series and even subgenera. (Alberta: Naturally! Glossary for the Nature of Alberta. https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/abnature/glossary.htm)
