The production of high-value vegetables and other horticultural crops in greenhouses and vertical farms. It allows farmers to grow cash crops on small plots in marginal, water-deficient areas where traditional cropping may not be viable. Also called protected agriculture or protected crop production. (Adapted from Ceccarelli, T., Chauhan, A., Rambaldi, G., Kumar, I., Cappello, C., Janssen, S. & McCampbell, M. 2022. Leveraging automation and digitalization for precision agriculture: Evidence from the case studies. Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2022. FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study No. 24. Rome, FAO.)
Right of clearance is the agreement granted by the first occupant for cutting bush and continuously cultivating. (Multilingual thesaurus on land tenure (English version)
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http://www.fao.org/3/a-x2038e.pdf)
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are a class of economic models that use actual economic data to estimate how an economy might react to changes in policy, technology or other external factors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_general_equilibrium)
A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of proteins in the diet, characterized by adaptive enzyme changes in the liver, increase in amino acid synthetases, and diminution of urea formation, thus conserving nitrogen and reducing its loss in the urine. Growth, immune response, repair, and production of enzymes and hormones are all impaired in severe protein deficiency. Protein deficiency may also arise in the face of adequate protein intake if the protein is of poor quality (i.e., the content of one or more amino acids is inadequate and thus becomes the limiting factor in protein utilization). (MeSH. 2025. Protein Deficiency. https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D011488)
Protein quality relates to the ability of a protein source to support healthy growth, development and maintenance of body mass. To be considered a “high-quality” or “complete” protein, a protein must contain all the essential amino acids (building blocks of proteins) in the right proportion and be easily digested. (Nutrition & Biosciences. 2022. What does protein quality mean? https://www.dupontnutritionandbiosciences.com/supro-soy/protein-101/what-does-protein-quality-mean.html)
Complex, organic compound made up of amino acids that contain carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and sometimes phosphorus and sulphur. (RAMIRAN Glossary of terms on livestock and manure management 2011)
