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A farm tenancy is a contractual agreement whereby the tenant farmer, the lessee, agrees a tenancy with the landowner, the lessor. The tenancy will identify the piece of land leased, together with the other terms and conditions, including rent. (FAO. 2003. Multilingual Thesaurus on Land Tenure. https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/x2038e )

Animal progeny. (Adapted from FAO. 1978. Glossary of inland fishery terms, EIFAC Occasional Paper No. 12 https://www.fao.org/4/ae987b/AE987B01.htm)

Geostatistics is a class of statistics used to analyze and predict the values associated with spatial or spatiotemporal phenomena, and it is very important to understand the spatial distribution of agricultural variables. (Rodrigues, M. S., Castrignanò, A., Belmonte, A., Silva, K. A. da ., & Lessa, B. F. da T.. (2020). Geostatistics and its potential in Agriculture 4.0. Revista Ciência Agronômica, 51(spe), e20207691. https://doi.org/10.5935/1806-6690.20200095)

The process of combining all aspects of the human, physical and biological aspects of the coastal zone within a single management framework. (FAO Fisheries Department (2003) World Fisheries and Aquaculture Atlas. CD-ROM. Rome, FAO. 2nd ed. )

The interval between similar growth stages of successive leaves on the same culm. (Wilhelm, W. W.; McMaster, Gregory S. (Jan–Feb 1995). "Importance of the Phyllochron in Studying Development and Growth in Grasses". Crop Science. 35 (1). doi:10.2135/cropsci1995.0011183x003500010001x)

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. Goal 12 is about ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns, which is key to sustain the livelihoods of current and future generations. (UN. 2025. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/)

Faeces or droppings and urine mixed with large amounts of bedding (e.g. straw, sawdust, wood shavings) and accumulated over a certain time on the floors of buildings housing any type of livestock or poultry. (RAMIRAN Glossary of terms on livestock and manure management 2011)

The science of palaeolimnology covers an area where limnology, the branch of ecology studying lakes, meets palaeontology, the study of fossils. The discipline studies the origin and the geomorphological history of lake basins and the response of their biocenoses (plant and animal communities) to the variations in e.g. trophic state, climate, water levels, and dissolved substances which have occurred over time. (Encyclopedia of Life Support SystemEditors: Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK)

Programmes that provide nutritious meals to school children. These programmes aim to improve the nutrition, health, and education of children and adolescents by ensuring they receive adequate food during the school day. School feeding programmes can also support local agriculture by sourcing food from local smallholder farmers, thereby strengthening local food systems and contributing to community development. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)

Traffic management concerns the planning, control and purchasing of transport services needed to physically move vehicles (for example aircraft, road vehicles, rolling stock and watercraft) and freight. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_management)

Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (DDD) is an organochlorine insecticide. DDD is a metabolite of DDT. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane)

Authorities in charge of forest management and conservation. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)

Groundwater or surface water that has not been withdrawn before, as opposed to secondary freshwater. (AQUASTAT Glossary, FAO, 2018)

Technologies that reduce the drudgery in farming and the burden of rural living, particularly for women that are under severe labour stress. (FAO)

Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) is a collection of methods for estimating the number of copies of a specific DNA template in a sample. (https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2199-11-30)

Cashew oil is a dark yellow oil for cooking or salad dressing pressed from cashew nuts (typically broken chunks created during processing). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew#Cashew_oil)

Data sovereignty can be defined as entities (countries, physical and legal) being in control of their data. (http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/bodies/ERC_31/MW103_3/MW106_ERC_18_3_en.pdf)

Sexual reproduction between different genets, usually plants that are different individuals (The pollination of cultivated plants: a compendium for practitioners, FAO, 2018)