Biofuel produced from sugar-rich plants (such as sugar cane, maize, beet, cassava, wheat, sorghum) or starch. (https://www.fao.org/3/i0139e/i0139e08.pdf)
A performance index is a calculation providing quantitative metrics for evaluating performance in categories relative to clearly defined targets. (Adapted from https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/epi-environmental-performance-index-2020)
Short thickened fleshy stems, or rhizomes, that usually form underground and bear minute scaled leaves, each with a bud capable of developing into a new plant (e.g., potato). (Tacon, A.G.J., 1987. The nutrition and feeding of farmed fish and shrimp - A training manual 2. Nutrient sources and composition. FAO Field Document. Project GCP/RLA/075/ITA, Field Document No. 5/E Brasilia, Brazil, 129 p. https://www.fao.org/4/ab468e/AB468E00.htm)
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Plant vegetative organs; for the edible fungus use <7995>
Environmental standards are regulations or guidelines for materials, products, and production processes, set by governments, organizations, or other regulatory bodies, designed to ensure that negative impacts on the environment are minimized or kept within acceptable limits by defining permissible levels of pollutants and required practices to protect the environment. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)
Soil hydrology is the study of the movement and distribution of water through soil and is a subset of the larger field of hydrogeology. (Soil Ecology WIKI from the University at Buffalo. 2023. Soil hydrology. https://soil.evs.buffalo.edu/index.php/Soil_hydrology)
Fish assemblages of a waterbody or zoogeographic region. The fish of a particular region. (Adapted from: FishBase Glossary, https://www.fishbase.se/glossary/Glossary.php?sc=is&q=Ichthyofauna and Ortiz-Burgos, S. (2016). Ichthyofauna. In: Kennish, M.J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Estuaries. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8801-4_58)
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This term refers to the fish species present in a particular region or ecosystem.
Seiches are long-period standing oscillations in an enclosed basin or in a locally isolated part of a basin. ( Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, pp. 193-236 (2009), Seiches and Harbor Oscillations, Alexander B. Rabinovich
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Institution building is defined as a process of creating capacity within and among organizational sets, to redefine the operating culture, formal and informal rules, conventions and norms of individual and collective work, in response to environmental change. (Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the Southm 2003. Capacity Building for Science and Technology)
