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Appendix C: Glossary
Appendix C: Glossary
Pages 371-382
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One important dimension of agricultural intensification is the length of fallow period (i.e., letting land lie uncultivated for a period) and whether the management approach uses ecological or technological means (FAO, 2009)
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These disciplines are generally housed in departments focused on conventional animal sciences, animal husbandry, food sciences, dairy husbandry, poultry husbandry, veterinary science, veterinary medicine, and agricultural economics. Animal welfare: How an animal is coping with the conditions in which it lives.
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Researchers and aquaculture producers are "farming" all kinds of freshwater and marine species of fish, shellfish, and plants. Aquaculture produces food fish, sport fish, bait fish, ornamental fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae, sea vegetables, and fish eggs (NOAA, 2014)
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. Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcing, or to persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land use.
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Growth promotants include ionophores, growth implants, and beta-agonists (Beef Cattle Research Council, 2013)
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The methods of industrial agriculture are technoscientific, economic, and political. They include innovation in agricultural machinery and farming methods, genetic technology, techniques for achieving economies of scale in production, the creation of new markets for consumption, the application of patent protection to genetic information, and global trade (FAO, 2009)
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It emphasizes the use of management practices in preference to the use of off-farm inputs, taking into account that regional conditions require locally adapted systems. This is accomplished by using, where possible, cultural, biological, and mechanical methods, as opposed to using synthetic materials, to fulfill any specific function within the system (FAO, 2009)
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. Sustainability: To create and maintain conditions, under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations (National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; Executive Order 13514 [2009]
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. Traditional agriculture: An indigenous form of farming, resulting from the coevolution of local social and environmental systems, that exhibits a high level of ecological rationale expressed through the intensive use of local knowledge and natural resources, including the management of agrobiodiversity in the form of diversified agricultural systems (FAO, 2009)
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2014. Animal Health Industry Supports FDA Antibiotic Judicious Use Guidelines.
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2011. A review of literature on food security, social capital and agricultural productivity in Nigeria.
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2014. National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS)
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