Urban horticulture is the science and study of the growing plants in an urban environment. It focuses on the functional use of horticulture so as to maintain and improve the surrounding urban area. (Wikipedia. 2025. Urban horticulture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_horticulture)
Women farmers are all women working in agrifood systems in different capacities across all segments of value chains. This includes farmers, producers, peasants, family and smallholder farmers, seasonal laborers, fishers, fish workers, beekeepers, pastoralists, foresters, processors, traders, traditional knowledge holders, women in agricultural sciences, formal and informal workers, and rural entrepreneurs. (FAO. 2025. International Year of the Woman Farmer. https://www.fao.org/woman-farmer-2026/en)
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They encompass women in all their diversity, including young and older women, Indigenous women and women in local communities, women with disabilities, refugee and displaced women, and others.
A scythe is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or reaping crops. A scythe consists of a shaft about 170 centimetres (67 in) long (the snaith) traditionally made of wood but now sometimes metal. A curved, steel blade is mounted at the lower end at 90°, or less, to the snaith. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythe)
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For the bladed agricultural tool with a short handle, see sickles.
Endogenous tissue constituents with the ability to interact with autoantibodies and cause an immune response. (National Library of Medicine. MesH. Autoantigens https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh)
Over 80 different conditions in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy body cells. They likely result from genetic and environmental factor interactions. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2024. Environmental Health Sciences Glossary https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/conditions/autoimmune)
An autosome is one of the numbered chromosomes, as opposed to the sex chromosomes. Humans have 22 pairs of autosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes (XX or XY). (National Human Genome Research Institute, 2024. Talking Glossary of Genomic and Genetic Terms. https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Autosome)
Cyclamen creticum, commonly known as Cretan Sowbread, is a small perennial herb endemic to Crete and Karpathos. It is closely related to Cyclamen repandum, and both are placed in subgenus Psilanthum. Some authorities consider C. creticum to be a subspecies of C. repandum.[ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclamen_creticum)
A species of Coronavirus causing infections in chickens and possibly pheasants. Chicks up to 4 weeks old are the most severely affected. (https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/14154)
Avian influenza viruses are members of the influenza A virus genus in the Orthomyxoviridae family. The many strains of avian influenza viruses can generally be classified into two categories according to the severity of the disease in poultry: - low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) that typically causes little or no clinical signs; - high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) that can cause severe clinical signs and possible high mortality rates. (Adapted from Harder TC, Buda S, Hengel H, Beer M, Mettenleiter TC. Poultry food products--a source of avian influenza virus transmission to humans? Clin Microbiol Infect. 2016 Feb;22(2):141-146. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.11.015. Epub 2015 Dec 12. PMID: 26686812. and WOAH, 2024. Avian Influenza https://www.woah.org/en/disease/avian-influenza/)
