Fishery stocks having abundance lower than the level that can produce maximum sustainable yield. (FAO. 2018. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018. Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals. Rome. https://www.fao.org/3/i9540en/i9540en.pdf
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The wolverine, Gulo gulo, is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae. It is a muscular carnivore and a solitary animal. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine)
Disagreement over land, where specific individual or collective interests related to land are in opposition. (Multilingual thesaurus on land tenure (English version)
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A feed block is a product where different ingredients are mixed together, to create a solid block from which the animals are supposed to lick. This provides the animals with a small supply of nutrients, since they only ingest small amounts at a time. Feed blocks are mainly used for ruminating animals such as cows, sheep and goats. (https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/14510/13/Ekholm_E_190425.pdf)
By-product of the pyrolysis of residual biomass. Biochar is a stable carbonate derivative produced from plant and/or animal biomass for application in agriculture. (FAO & WHO. 2022. Code of Practice for the Prevention and Reduction of Cadmium Contamination in Cocoa Beans. Codex Code of Practice, CXC 81-2022. Codex Alimentarius Commission. Rome. https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius)
Meroplankton are a wide variety of aquatic organisms which have both planktonic and benthic stages in their life cycles. Much of the meroplankton consists of larval stages of larger organism. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meroplankton)
Poinsettia mosaic virus (PnMV) is a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA virus that belongs to the family Tymoviridae. (Poinsettia mosaic virus (PnMV) is a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA virus (Bradel et al. 2000) that belongs to the family Tymoviridae (Dreher et al. 2005).)
Chemical defense is a life history strategy employed by many organisms to avoid consumption by producing toxic or repellent metabolites. The production of defensive chemicals occurs in plants, fungi, and bacteria, as well as invertebrate and vertebrate animals. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_defense)
Tidal bore: A high breaking wave of water, advancing rapidly up an estuary. bores can occur at the mouths of shallow rivers if the tide range at the mouth is large. They can also be generated in a river when tsunamis enter shallow coastal water and propagate up the river. Also called eager, mascaret, or tidal bore. (https://www.tides.gc.ca/eng/info/glossary)
Process of reversing the degradation of ecosystems, such as landscapes, lakes and oceans to regain their ecological functionality; in other words, to improve the productivity and capacity of ecosystems to meet the needs of society. (New UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration offers unparalleled opportunity for job creation, food security and addressing climate change, FAO, 2019. http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1182090/icode/.)
A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item i.e. each primary commodity availablity for human consumption which corresponds to the sources of supply and its utilisation. (FAOSTAT, 2015 (http://faostat.fao.org/site/354/default.aspx).)
Gal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy. Goal 7 is about ensuring access to clean and affordable energy, which is key to the development of agriculture, business, communications, education, healthcare and transportation. (UN. 2025. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/)
Rice dwarf virus (RDV), a phytoreovirus in the family Reoviridae, is mainly transmitted by the leafhopper vector, Nephotettix cincticeps, in a persistent-propagative manner. RDV is an icosahedral and double-layered spherical virion of approximately 70 nm in diameter. (Chen, Q., Zhang, L., Chen, H. et al. Nonstructural protein Pns4 of rice dwarf virus is essential for viral infection in its insect vector. Virol J 12, 211 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-015-0438-6)
