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  • Agribusiness - businesses involved in food production, including farming, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing and retail sales.
  • Agronomy - the science of using plants for food, fuel and feeds. Includes field crop production and soil management.
  • Amenity horticulture - the design and maintenance of planting schemes for parks, gardens, golf courses and other landscapes.
  • Aquaculture - farming of freshwater and saltwater fish and shellfish.
  • Arboriculture - cultivation of trees and shrubs, woodland management.
  • BBSRC - Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Funding agency for academic research and training in the biosciences.
  • Biodiversity - variation of life forms in a given ecosystem.
  • Biofuel - fuel derived from living matter, most commonly plants.
  • BTCV - British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV).
  • CAP - Common Agricultural Policy. A system of EU agricultural subsidies and programmes.
  • Carbon footprint - total emissions of greenhouse gases from source being measured, e.g. an individual or organisation.
  • CRC - Commission for Rural Communities. Independent body that promotes awareness of the social and economic needs of people working in rural areas.
  • DEFRA - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Government department responsible for policy and regulations on the environment, food and rural affairs.
  • EA - Environment Agency (EA). Purpose is to protect and improve the environment, and to promote sustainable development.
  • Equine - relating to horses.
  • FWAG - Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG). Independent provider of environmental and conservation advice to farmers.
  • LANTRA - Lantra: The Sector Skills Council for the Environmental and Land-based Sector.
  • Micro-business - company with fewer than ten employees.
  • NGO - non-governmental organisation. Sometimes funded by governments, but excludes government representatives from membership.
  • Production (Commercial) Horticulture - large-scale production and selling of plants for food or gardens.
  • RHS - Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). UK gardening charity that aims to advance horticulture and promote good gardening.
  • Sustainability - investment in a way of living that preserves natural ecosystems.
 
 
 
AGCAS
Written by Andrea Gregory, AGCAS
Date: 
August 2010
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