The United States Minor Outlying Islands is a statistical designation applying to the minor outlying islands and groups of islands that comprise eight United States insular areas and territories in the Pacific Ocean (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Wake Island and Swains Island) and one in the Caribbean Sea (Navassa Island) (Wikipedia. 2025. United States Minor Outlying Islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands)
The shelterwood system is a silvicultural system in which trees are removed in a series of cuts designed to achieve a new stand under the shelter of remaining trees. (Schönenberger, Walter & Brang, Peter. 2004. Silviculture in mountain forests. https://doi.org/10.1016/B0-12-145160-7/00228-3)
A fabric is a material made through weaving, knitting, spreading, crocheting, or bonding that may be used in production of further goods (garments, etc.). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile)
Budgetary transfers (fiscal subsidies) to producers that are tied to the production of a specific commodity, the use of variable inputs or of specific factors of production (e.g. area planted or animal numbers). (
FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2022. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022.
Repurposing food and agricultural policies to make healthy diets more affordable. Rome, FAO.
https://doi.org/10.4060/cc0639en)
A biscuit, in most English speaking countries, is a flour-based baked and shaped food item. Biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. (Wikipedia, 2024. Biscuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit)
Diquat dibromide is a non-selective contact herbicide, algicide, desiccant, and defoliant that produces desiccation and defoliation most often available as the dibromide, diquat dibromide. CAS NO. 85-00-7. (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/6794)
Adaptive capacity is the ability of systems to respond, recover and address an adaptation deficit. It relates to the capacity to adjust to potential damage, to take advantage of opportunities, or to respond to consequences. (Adapted from Distefano, E., Rai, N. and Wolf, J. 2023. Using metrics to assess progress towards the Paris Agreement’s Global Goal on Adaptation – Transparency in adaptation in the agriculture sectors. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc2038en)
Note
Often used in the context of climate change. Adaptive capacity is essentially linked to the existence of the knowledge, policies, institutions that can help systems and institutions become resilient, where resilience is the capacity to absorb, respond and transform in the face of shocks and disturbances.
Treatment of living and dead forest fuels to reduce the likelihood of a fire starting, and to lessen its damage potential and resistance to control. (Wildland Fire Management Terminology, FAO)
A core collection is a limited set of accessions representing, with a minimum of repetitiveness, the genetic diversity of a crop species and its wild relatives. (Frankel, O.H. 1984. Genetic perspectives of germplasm conservation. Pp. 161-170 in Genetic Manipulation: Impact on Man and Society (W.Arber, K. Llimensee, W.J. Peacock and P. Starlinger, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.)
A clear to opalescent liquid to be applied to the seed either directly or as a solution of the active constituent after dilution in water. The liquid may contain water-insoluble formulants. (FAO/WHO. 2016. Manual on development and use of FAO and WHO specifications for pesticides. 1st Edition, 3rd revision, FAO, Rome. Available online: http://www.fao.org/agriculture/crops/thematic-sitemap/theme/pests/jmps/manual/en/ )
