The Multidimensional Poverty Index is published by UNDP and tracks deprivation across three dimensions and 10 indicators: health (child mortality, nutrition), education (years of schooling, enrollment), and living standards (water, sanitation, electricity, cooking fuel, floor, assets). (https://indicators.report/indicators/i-3/)
A cast net is constructed from a series of tailored netting sections joined together to produce a cone-shaped net with weights and a drawstring attached to the perimeter and cast by a fisher to catch fish. (FAO 2024. Fishing Gear types. Cast nets. Technology Fact Sheets. In: Fisheries and Aquaculture. Rome. https://www.fao.org/fishery/en/geartype/217/en)
Open Science is the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research and its underlying data and methods. (https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/foster-taxonomy/open-science-definition)
Sandbanks are elevated, elongated, rounded or irregular topographic features, permanently submerged and predominantly surrounded by deeper water. They consist mainly of sandy sediments, but larger grain sizes, including boulders and cobbles, or smaller grain sizes including mud may also be present on a sandbank. (European Habitats Directive https://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/legislation/habitatsdirective/docs/Int_Manual_EU28.pdf)
Salvia aramiensis Rech. f. is a species that grows only in Hatay, Turkey and is used as a traditional stomachic tea. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32244734/)
The floor of a building normally constructed of a hard, impermeable material such as concrete. (RAMIRAN Glossary of terms on livestock and manure management 2011)
Zoogeography is the science whose primary aim is to identify, describe, and explain the distribution of both land and aquatic species of animals. (DeMers, M.N. (2017). Zoogeography. In International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology (eds D. Richardson, N. Castree, M.F. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu and R.A. Marston). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0769)
A human right that ensures individuals have access to an environment that is safe, clean, and sustainable. It encompasses the environmental dimensions of the rights to life, health, food, water, sanitation, property, private life, culture, and non-discrimination, among others. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)
A living plant cultivated and moved to a location that enables the detection of native or exotic pests and diseases that may attack these species. (Kenis, M.; Hurley, B.P.; Colombari, F.; Lawson, S.; Sun, J.; Wilcken, C.; Weeks, R. and Sathyapala, S. 2019. Guide to the classical biological control of insect pests in planted and natural forests, FAO Forestry Paper No. 182. Rome, FAO.
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A pox disease of cattle characterized by fever, nodules on the skin, mucous membranes and internal organs, emaciation, enlarged lymph nodes, oedema of the skin, and sometimes death. The disease is of economic importance as it can cause a temporary reduction in milk production, temporary or permanent sterility in bulls, damage to hides and death due to secondary bacterial infections. (World Assembly of Delegates of the OIE, 2010 (http://www.oie.int/fileadmin/Home/eng/Health_standards/tahm/2.04.14_LSD.pdf).)
Biogeochemistry is the scientific discipline that involves the study of the chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes and reactions that govern the composition of the natural environment (including the biosphere, the cryosphere, the hydrosphere, the pedosphere, the atmosphere, and the lithosphere). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeochemistry)
The "whitish truffle" (Tuber borchii) is a similar species found in Italy: Tuscany, Abruzzo, Romagna, Umbria, the Marche and Molise. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle#White_truffle)
A species of insect in the Coccidae family of the Hemiptera order, with the scientific name Pulvinaria floccifera. Females are 2-3.5 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, light yellow, long oval-shaped, 5-11 mm long, and have a white woolly egg sack. Adults and nymphs of these insects feed on the leaves and shoots of tea, citrus, grapevine, laurel, laurel and many ornamental plants, causing growth retardation and creating honeydew. (Translated from http://terim.tuba.gov.tr/)
