Undertaking by a group of countries to stabilize trade, supplies, and prices of a commodity for the benefit of participating countries. An agreement usually involves a consensus on quantities traded, prices, and stock management. (Adapted from Wikipedia, 2024. International commodity agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_commodity_agreement)
Technology used to extend the transmission of information between individuals and groups over both distance and time. Examples include language, writing, printing, telegraph, telephone, and the Internet. (Elwell, F. 2013. Glossary of Sociology. In Sociocultural Systems. Principles of Structure and Change. https://read.aupress.ca/read/sociocultural-systems-principles-of-structure-and-change/section/b9d25a9e-9550-4871-a7f1-59f5add30d2f)
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Process of sharing information involving coding, transmission, decoding, use of and reactions to a message
A credit policy refers to a set of guidelines, rules, and procedures established by a business or financial institution to govern its approach to extending credit to customers or clients. (AGROVOC Team, 2024)
Field crops are crops cultivated on a large scale in farmland, such as rice, wheat, and corn. (Translated from CNTERM. 2024. CHINESE TERMS IN AGRONOMY 2024. https://www.cnterm.cn/news/tzgg/202407/P020250909517921360798.pdf)
Credit control is the system used by businesses and central banks to make sure that credit is given only to borrowers who are likely to be able to repay it. As such matters are rarely certain, credit controllers control lending by calculating and managing risk. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_control)
Fertilizer industry: the entire value-chain involved in producing and supplying fertilizers, including basic production or mining, processing into final products, transportation, storage, and ultimate delivery to the fertilizer user. (http://www.fao.org/3/ca5253en/ca5253en.pdf)
The abuse of entrusted power for private gain. Corruption takes many forms, such as bribery, trading in influence, abuse of functions, but can also hide behind nepotism, conflicts of interest, or revolving doors between the public and the private sectors. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)
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It takes many forms, varying from small-scale bribes and fraud (e.g. administrative corruption), to high-level abuse of government power and political positions (e.g. political corruption).
The genus Brevoortia are all species of menhaden, found mainly in western Atlantic. Menhaden are forage fish of the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, two genera of marine fish in the order Clupeiformes. (Wikipedia 2024, Brevoortia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevoortia)
