Statistical Terms Glossary

It consists of all the stakeholders who participate in the coordinated production and value-adding activities that are needed to make food products.

Study of the make-up of and interaction between genes in crops and combinatorial chemistry.

Until the introduction of the single currency on 1 January 1999, intervention support prices and payments under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) were set in ECUs and then converted into each country's currency using special conversion rates called "green rates". These rates were usually different from those established under the European Monetary System (EMS) and from those of the EU member states which are not members of the EMS.

Geographic concentrations of interconnected producers, agribusinesses and institutions that are engaged in the same agricultural or agro-industrial subsector and that interconnect and build value networks to address common challenges and pursue common opportunities.

Geographic concentrations of closely interlinked food value chain (FVC) stakeholders. Closely related concepts include agro-based clusters, agro-corridors, agro-industrial parks, agro-based special economic zones, and agribusiness incubators.

Demarcated geographic areas where firms engaged in agribusiness and agro-industrial activities benefit from a more favourable regulatory, business and fiscal environment than in the rest of the country.

It is the variety and variability of animals, plants and micro-organisms that are used directly or indirectly for food and agriculture, including crops, livestock, forestry and fisheries.

A general term for chemicals used in agriculture, including pesticides.

Territorial development initiatives based on an existing linear agglomeration of people and economic activities (agriculture and other sectors) that develop along a major transportation route.

agricultural input supply retail business; dealer in agricultural products.

AEZ: The division of an area of land into smaller units, which have similar characteristics related to land suitability, potential production and environmental impact; A kind of zoning which integrates physical land resources elements with socio-economic factors and a wider range of land uses in zone definitions.

Agroecology is the integrative study of the ecology of the entire food system, encompassing ecological, economic and social dimensions.; An interdisciplinary field of knowledge involving a set of concepts and principles oriented towards the design and management of sustainable ecosystems.

Is the study of the relation of agricultural crops and environment.

Is an ecosystem under agricultural management, connected to other ecosystems.

Agro-enterprise is not a new issue but a shift in the approach to the development of rural areas. It proposes that development planners and managers take a more holistic perspective on sustainable economic development in agriculture-based regions.

Agro-enterprise development covers the entire gamut of activities concerning supply of inputs, production, processing, transporting, and marketing of agricultural and related produce. It cuts across various sectors and encompasses the institutions and businesses serving the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries sectors.