Encompasses the entire range of actors and their interlinked activities adding social, cultural, and economic value involved in the production, aggregation, processing, distribution, labelling, marketing, consumption, and disposal of food products. These actors work across the supply-side of a food system. (FAO. 2025. Food safety and quality in the Near East and North Africa – Mapping drivers, challenges and imperatives. Cairo. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd6725en)
Physical tools, machinery, or devices used to perform specific tasks or functions, typically designed to improve productivity, efficiency, or effectiveness in various fields and industries. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)
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Tree 40–45 m tall, 1.5–2 m dbh. Crown pyramidal at first, becoming columnar, somewhat irregular and flat-topped in maturity. Genuine Greek Firs are, overall, quite distinctive. Their needles are hard and radiating, somewhat like those of A. pinsapo and A. numidica but longer than both, less densely set on the shoots, more forward in their arrangement, and tending to have a more acute apex. (Christian, T. (2021), 'Abies cephalonica' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/abies/abies-cephalonica/). Accessed 2024-08-04.)
