Situation in which all members of a household at all times are consuming enough safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development, and for an active and healthy life. (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)
Indigenous peoples’ tenure systems is the traditional set of customary and enacted norms, local rules, institutions, and practices that indigenous people use in governing land, fisheries and forests over time. (Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. P. 8 (http://www.fao.org/3/i2801e/i2801e.pdf) )
A general term for organisms which may cause illness or damage to humans or to crops, livestock, or materials important to humans. (NALT https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/839)
Private property is property that is held privately, whether individually, jointly or corporately. Private property and the associated rights of ownership are a keystone of market economies. In those countries that have written constitutions, the right to hold private property is usually enshrined as a fundamental human right. (FAO. 2003. Multilingual Thesaurus on Land Tenure. https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/x2038e)
Information and communication technologies (ICT) is defined as a diverse set of technological tools and resources used to transmit, store, create, share or exchange information. (UIS. 2009. Guide to measuring information and communication technologies (ICT) in education. Montreal: UIS. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000186547)
A shared, evolving, heterogeneous installed base (which is also open and standardized). (Hanseth, Ole. (2010). From Systems and Tools to Networks and Infrastructures-from Design to Cultivation: Towards a Design Theory of Information Infrastructures. Industrial Informatics Design, Use and Innovation: Perspectives and Services. 122-156. 10.4018/978-1-61520-692-6.ch011.)
The reinforcement or creation of “the capacity of an organisation to generate, allocate and use human and financial resources effectively to attain development objectives, public or private”. It includes the building and strengthening of institutions and also their retrenchment or liquidation in the pursuit of sectoral, institutional or government-wide rationalisation of expenditure. (Adapted from Buyck, B. (1991). The Bank’s Use of Technical Assistance for Institutional Development, World Bank Working Paper, No. 578, Washington, DC: World Bank.)
Institutional reform is the process of reviewing and restructuring institutions so that they can become more effective, efficient, and adaptive in providing high-quality services. (Adapted from Yang, P. & Ou, Y. 2023. Guide for monitoring and evaluation of the public agricultural extension and advisory service system. Rome, FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc4014en)
A continuous process through which decisions are made for the sustainable use, development, and protection of areas and resources. Integrated management acknowledges the relationships that exist among different uses and the environments they potentially affect. It is designed to overcome the fragmentation inherent in a sectoral approach, analyses the implications of development, conflicting uses, and promotes linkages and harmonization among various activities. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)
Process of determining, recording and disseminating information about the relationship between people and land. (ISO/TC 211 Multi-Lingual Glossary of Terms (MLGT) https://isotc211.geolexica.org/concepts/1300/)
Phenols that include substances containing a phenolic ring and at least one organic carboxylic acid function. (CHEBI. 2024. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/searchId.do?chebiId=CHEBI:166890)
Land cover mapping is a semantic segmentation problem: each pixel in an aerial or satellite image must be classified into one of several land cover classes. These classes describe the surface of the earth and are typically broad categories such as “forest” or “field”. High-resolution land cover data (≤1m / pixel) is essential in many sustainability-related applications. Its uses include informing agricultural best management practices, monitoring forest change over time and measuring urban sprawl. However, land cover maps quickly fall out of date and must be updated as construction, erosion, and other processes act on the landscape. (Large Scale High-Resolution Land Cover Mapping with Multi-Resolution Data
Caleb Robinson, Le Hou, Kolya Malkin, Rachel Soobitsky, Jacob Czawlytko, Bistra Dilkina, Nebojsa Jojic
The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2019/html/Robinson_Large_Scale_High-Resolution_Land_Cover_Mapping_With_Multi-Resolution_Data_CVPR_2019_paper.html)
A system for capturing, storing, checking, integrating, manipulating, analysing and displaying data about land and its use, ownership and development. (Choudury, K. & Jansen, L.J.M. (UNESCO/WMO) (1999) Terminology for integrated resources planning and management. Rome, FAO. 69 p.)
Land registration is the official recording of legally recognised interests in land and is usually part of a cadastral system. From a legal perspective a distinction can be made between deeds registration, where the documents filed in the registry are the evidence of title, and registration of title, in which the register itself serves as the primary evidence. (Multilingual thesaurus on land tenure (English version)
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Land-use mapping is the process of identifying, classifying, and spatially representing how land is used by humans for economic and social purposes. (Adapted from FAO Geospatial information for sustainable food systems https://www.fao.org/geospatial/)
Analysis: compilation and evaluation of inputs, outputs and potential environmental impacts of a product system throughout its life cycle. (Adapted from FAO, 2019. Environmental performance of feed additives in livestock supply chains, http://www.fao.org/3/ca5562en/ca5562en.pdf)
Group of individuals belonging to the same community residing within or in the same vicinity of a particular parcel, property or natural resource. (Making forest concessions in the tropics work to achieve the 2030 Agenda: Voluntary Guidelines, FAO Forestry Paper No. 180, 2018)
