Famine is the most severe phase of the IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification). It exists in areas where at least one in five households has or is most likely to experience an extreme deprivation of food. Starvation, death, destitution and extremely critical levels of acute malnutrition are or will likely be evident. Significant mortality, directly attributable to outright starvation or to the interaction of malnutrition and disease, is occurring or is likely to be occurring. (IPC Global Partners. 2021. Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Technical Manual Version 3.1. Evidence and Standards for Better Food Security and Nutrition Decisions. Rome. https://www.ipcinfo.org)
Feed for livestock, usually pigs that is formulated as a mixture of feed, water and other ingredients so that it can be pumped. (RAMIRAN Glossary of terms on livestock and manure management 2011)
An application method in which seeds are uniformly placed into shallow furrows before closing the furrows. (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/AGRO_00000413)
The type of animal or livestock according to species, sex, age and reason for production (breeding, meat, milk, wool. etc.). (RAMIRAN Glossary of terms on livestock and manure management 2011)
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The concept is mainly used as heading for statistical purposes.
The process by which gametes are produced. The phase of gametogenesis corresponding to reduction of the chromosomes from the diploid (2n) stage to the haploid stage (n) is called "meiosis". (FAO. 2008. Glossary of aquaculture. https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/a1555m)
