Agri-Culture

Glossary of Specialist Terms

Terms that appear in the glossary are italicized on their first mention in each chapter of the text.

Adat	Indigenous cultural knowledge and rules system of Indonesia and Malaysia
Agroecology	Ecological relationships in agricultural systems
Antimicrobial (also antibiotic)	Substance toxic to microbes and administered to humans and livestock
Apomixis	The production of exact clones of the mother plant through asexual reproduction
Autopoisis	Self-organizing and self-made character of living systems
Bioregionalism	Integration of human activities within ecological limits
Biotechnology	Molecular changes to living or non-living ...