Suppression, containment or eradication of a pest population. (ISPM 5. 1995. Glossary of phytosanitary terms. Rome, IPPC Secretariat, FAO. [published 1996])
Any action and activity that can be used to prevent or eliminate a food safety hazard or pest or weed, or reduce it to an acceptable level. (Adapted from FAO and WHO. 2019. Food control system assessment tool: Introduction and glossary. Food safety and quality series No. 7/1. Rome. https://www.fao.org/3/ca5334en/ca5334en.pdf (control measure))
CRISPR refers to the “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,” which describes the unique DNA sequences that lie within other continuously repeating DNA sequences in bacterial genomes. (Molecular-Genetic and Statistical Techniques for Behavioral and Neural Research, 2018)
The length of time after application during which a pesticide remains active. (Dreistadt, S.H. (1994). Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs: An Integrated Pest Management Guide.)
Materials intended to mitigate, control or eliminate pests in plants or animals, or to control the behaviour or physiology of pests or crops during production or storage. (FAO. 2017. World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020. Volume I Programme, concepts and definitions. https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/i4913e)
Land law is the body of law dealing with land, its definition, ownership and use whether urban or rural. (Multilingual thesaurus on land tenure (English version)
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