All non-living woody biomass not contained in the litter, either standing, lying on the ground, or in the soil. Dead wood includes wood lying on the surface, dead roots, and stumps larger than or equal to 10 cm in diameter or any other diameter used by the country (Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020, FAO 2018)
A baked product of flour or meal of cereals especially wheat. Includes ordinary, unleavened, crackers, rusks, etc. (Draft Definition and Classification of Commodities, FAO, 1996 (W2979).)
A farming system can be considered as being a population of individual farm systems that have broadly similar resource bases, enterprise patterns, household livelihoods and constraints, and for which similar development strategies and interventions would be appropriate. (Cleary, Dervla, ‘People-centred Approaches: A brief literature review and comparison of types’, LSP Working Paper 5, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Livelihood Support Programme, 2003 https://www.fao.org/4/ad682e/ad682e07.htm)
That section of forestry concerned with the management of biotic and non-biotic damage to forests, arising from the action of humans (particularly unauthorized use of fire, human-caused wildfires, grazing and browsing, felling), natural wildfires, pests, pathogens, and extreme climatic events (wind, frost, precipitation). (TRG(A10.6)/GICM, FAO, 2005. Wildland Fire Management Terminology, FAO)
Agricultural land includes arable land, land under permanent crops (such as cocoa and coffee), and permanent meadows and pastures. (FAO. 2016. State of the World’s Forests 2016. Forests and agriculture: land-use challenges and opportunities. Rome. https://www.fao.org/3/i5588e/i5588e.pdf)
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Land which is or can be used for agriculture without further clearing or draining; for forest land use <24843>
Community of trees or bamboos possessing sufficient uniformity as regards to composition, constitution, age or condition to be distinguishable from adjacent communities
A stand or forest type, in which no or relatively small age differences exist among individual trees within it, usually less than 20% of rotation length. (FAO Language Resources Project, 2005; IUFRO, Vienna, 2005)
Expectorants are drugs used to produce an increased volume of respiratory secretions that can theoretically be coughed out more easily. (Philip Padrid, David B Church,
Chapter 18 - Drugs used in the management of respiratory diseases,
Editor(s): JILL E MADDISON, STEPHEN W PAGE, DAVID B CHURCH,
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W.B. Saunders, 2008,
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An area of land, a holding of any size from a small plot or garden (fractions of a hectare) to several thousand hectares that is devoted primarily to agriculture to produce food, fibre or fuel. A farm may be owned and operated by an individual, a family, a community, a corporation or a company, and may produce anywhere from one to many types of produce or animal. (Aizen, M.A., Basu, P. , Bienefeld, K., Biesmeijer, J.C., Garibaldi, L.A., Gemmill-Herren, B, Imperatriz-Fonseca, V.L., Klein, A-L., Potts, S.G., Seymour C.L. & Vanbergen, A.J. 2023. Sustainable use and conservation of invertebrate pollinators. Background Study Paper, No. 72. Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome, FAO.)
Farmyard manure refers to the bulky organic manure resulting from the naturally decomposed mixture of dung and urine of farm animals along with the litter (bedding material). (Plant nutrition for food security, FAO Fertilizer and Plant Nutrition Bulletin No.16, FAO, 2006)
