Appendix:Glossary of agriculture

This is a glossary of agriculture. It aims to provide people who consult documents centred on this topic, or are engaged in conversations of this thematic.


 * This glossary aims to be comprehensive of technical, organizational and administrative terms found in documents related to agriculture. It may include common terms from related fields, such as biology, organization management, law, and computer science. It is not intended, however, to cover exhaustively the specific terms of these related fields outside their fields of intersection with its core subject.


 * Note on the sources of the contents: some of the definitions used are taken from the related Wiktionary or Wikipedia articles. Some definitions are original. In any case, it will be welcome to mention links to the history of the related pages to credit the contributor of the participating projects.

Entries

 * agriculture:
 * agro-ecological farming:
 * agroindustrial busines model:
 * alternative currency:
 * animal:
 * biodiversity:
 * business environment:
 * carbon neutrality:
 * climate change:
 * closed nutrient circle:
 * Common Agricultural Policy (CAP):
 * community garden:
 * community space:
 * cultivation:
 * data sovereignty:
 * decomposer:
 * degenerative money system:
 * direct farm sales: confer farm gate marketing. See also direct selling.
 * direct selling: the marketing and selling of products directly to consumers away from a fixed retail location.
 * ecological capacities:
 * ecological, social, ‘sustainable’ production of food:
 * ecosystem:
 * energy production:
 * environment:
 * European cooperation:
 * farm gate marketing: a direct marketing method whereby farmers sell agricultural produce – mostly food – directly to the consumer, to restaurants and caterers, and to independent retailers.
 * farmgate sales confer farm gate marketing.
 * farmers’ food sovereignty:
 * feces:
 * financial support:
 * [food as] life-sustaining infrastructure:
 * food councils of city:
 * food hub: a centrally located facility with a business management structure facilitating the aggregation, storage, processing, distributions, and/or marketing of locally/regionally produced food products.
 * forester:
 * global food and farming systems:
 * grass fed system:
 * grassrout-movement:
 * holistic management:
 * humanure:
 * international cooperation:
 * Kyoto protocole:
 * land policy:
 * large companies:
 * large corporations:
 * lobbying:
 * local authorities:
 * local food courts:
 * local food systems:
 * local seed variety:
 * lombricompostage:
 * long-term cooperation:
 * loss of biodiversity:
 * market dominance:
 * market gardening:
 * Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP):
 * multinational companies:
 * no-tillage:
 * nutrient circle:
 * nutrition security:
 * paludicultures:
 * patent:
 * pesticides:
 * plant:
 * political level:
 * privatization of nature:
 * protection of data:
 * public money:
 * public service:
 * regeneration:
 * re-naturalize:
 * retail: The sale of goods directly to the consumer, encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them.
 * roof water farms:
 * Rural-Urban Nutrient Partnerships:
 * selfhelp:
 * soil disturbance:
 * spatial planning:
 * stategic priorities and balance:
 * subsidiar:
 * subsidies:
 * sustainability indicators:
 * sustainable farms:
 * sustainable food consumption:
 * sustainable food production:
 * sustainable nutrient circle:
 * technological sovereignty:
 * transparacy of govenance:
 * United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
 * urban agriculture:
 * urban farms:
 * vermiculture:
 * wetlands:
 * wholesale: The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.
 * zero-tillage: