A record or registry of animals within a specific livestock breed or species. It is a centralized database or collection of information that contains pedigrees, breeding histories, and other relevant details of individual animals within a particular herd or breeding population. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)
Collection of methodological elements defining how impacts and dependencies are being measured, valued and reported. These can include sets of indicators, impacts and dependency pathways, valuation techniques and other assessment rules. (Riemer, O., Mairaj Shah, T. & Müller, A. 2023. The role of true cost accounting in guiding agrifood businesses and investments towards sustainability – Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2023. FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-13. Rome, FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc8422en)
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Methods differ from activities in that for the former usually a formal or standardized description is available and that they involve a number of steps
The term comparative evaluation refers to research in which an evaluation and the findings of the evaluation process are set in a comparative framework. (Vartiainen, P., 2002. On the principles of comparative evaluation. Evaluation, 8(3), pp.359-371. https://doi.org/10.1177/135638902401462484)
