Soil-borne wheat mosaic virus (SBWMV) is a rod-shaped plant pathogen that can cause severe stunting and mosaic in susceptible wheat, barley and rye cultivars. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil-borne_wheat_mosaic_virus)
Disaster preparedness consists of a set of measures undertaken in advance by governments, organisations, communities, or individuals to better respond and cope with the immediate aftermath of a disaster, whether it be human-induced or caused by natural hazards. The objective is to reduce the loss of life and livelihoods. (European Commission. 2023. Disaster preparedness https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/what/humanitarian-aid/disaster-preparedness_en)
Genomic regions associated with complex quantitative traits governed by several large effect as well as smaller effect genes. Special statistical software is needed to identify the locations and effects associated with these regions. (Rajeev K. Varshney, Abhishek Bohra, Jianming Yu, Andreas Graner, Qifa Zhang, Mark E. Sorrells, Designing Future Crops: Genomics-Assisted Breeding Comes of Age, Trends in Plant Science, Volume 26, Issue 6, 2021, Pages 631-649, ISSN 1360-1385, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2021.03.010.)
From the perspective of the country of arrival, the act of moving into a country other than one’s country of nationality or usual residence, so that the country of destination effectively becomes his or her new country of usual residence. (Sironi, A. C. Bauloz and M. Emmanuel (eds.), 2019. Glossary on Migration. International Migration Law, No. 34. International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva. https://publications.iom.int/books/international-migration-law-ndeg34-glossary-migration)
Agrobiodiversity is the diversity of crops and their wild relatives, trees, livestock, fish, microbes and other species that contribute to agricultural production. (Biodiversity Integrated Assessment and Computation Tool, FAO, 2020 (http://www.fao.org/3/ca8762en/CA8762EN.pdf).)
Process by which an individual assimilates information, ideas and values and thus acquires knowledge, know-how, skills and/or competences. (Cedefop (2008). Terminology of European education and training policy – A selection of 100 key terms. Luxembourg: Publications Office.)
From the perspective of the country of departure, the act of moving from one’s country of nationality or usual residence to another country, so that the country of destination effectively becomes his or her new country of usual residence. (Sironi, A. C. Bauloz and M. Emmanuel (eds.), 2019. Glossary on Migration. International Migration Law, No. 34. International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva.
https://publications.iom.int/books/international-migration-law-ndeg34-glossary-migration)
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is devoted to promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights, pursuing its founding mission that social justice is essential to universal and lasting peace. The only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919 the ILO brings together governments, employers and workers of 187 Member States, to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men. (ILO. 2025. About the ILO https://www.ilo.org/about-ilo)
Activities and measures to avoid existing and new disaster risks. (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). 2017. The Sendai Framework Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction. "Prevention". Accessed 17 March 2026. https://www.undrr.org/terminology/prevention.)
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Disaster prevention expresses the concept and intention to completely avoid potential adverse impacts of hazardous events. While certain disaster risks cannot be eliminated, prevention aims at reducing vulnerability and exposure in such contexts where, as a result, the risk of disaster is removed. Examples include dams or embankments that eliminate flood risks, land-use regulations that do not permit any settlement in high-risk zones, seismic engineering designs that ensure the survival and function of a critical building in any likely earthquake and immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases.
Sciences are disciplines of the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence. (Adapted from Science Council, 2024. Our definition of science https://sciencecouncil.org/about-science/our-definition-of-science)
Reaction of the immune system of an organism to potentially harmful stimuli. (WIPO 2020. WIPO Pearl COVID-19 Glossary https://wipopearl.wipo.int/assets/static/WIPOPearl_COVID-19_Glossary.pdf)
Information pertaining to the location, spatial dimensions and relationships of objects in multidimensional space, and may be represented as points, lines, areas, surfaces, polygons or pixels with their associated coordinates or topology. (NALT https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/977)
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The terms "spatial data" and "geospatial data" both emphasize the importance of location in the data, and which is used often depends on the specific context.
Product. Goods and services which are the result of production processes normally intended for sale on the market at a price that is designed to cover their costs of production. Includes not only conventional agricultural crops, but also trees, fish, or any other product of the earth which has value and is produced or gathered for consumption or sale. (FAO (1996.a): A system of economic accounts for food and agriculture. FAO Statistical Development Series, 9. FAO, Rome in Choudhury K. and L.J.M. Jansen (1999): Terminology for Integrated Resources Planning and Management. FAO, Rome, Italy: 69 pages.)
Syrups are thick, viscous liquids, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, but showing little tendency to deposit crystals. Used in cooking and food industries. (Adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrup)
Phyllactinia is a genus of fungi in the family Erysiphaceae. Species in this genus are plant pathogens, causing powdery mildew. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllactinia)
