March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
16h 10m
English
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Acronyms and Abbreviations
ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS
- ADB
- Asian Development Bank
- CBH
- Co-operative Bulk Handling (Australia)
- CBOT
- Chicago Board of Trade (USA)
- CME
- Chicago Mercantile Exchange (USA)
- CRED
- Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
- ECMWF
- European Centre of Midrange Weather Forecasting (UK)
- EM-DAT
- Emergency Events Database, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
- EU
- European Union
- FAO
- Food and Agriculture Organization
- FCIC
- Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (USA)
- GFMC
- Global Fire Monitoring Centre
- IFAD
- International Fund for Agricultural Development
- IFC
- International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group)
- IFPRI
- International Food Policy Research Institute
- ILRI
- International Livestock Research Institute
- IPCC
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
- NASS
- National Agricultural Statistics Service (USA)
- NCAR
- National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA)
- NCIS
- National Crop Insurance Services (USA)
- NOAA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
- OECD
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- OIE
- World Organisation for Animal Health
- PCS
- Property Claims Services (USA)
- RMA
- Risk Management Agency (USA)
- USDA
- United States Department of Agriculture
- USGS
- United States Geological Survey
- WMO
- World Meteorological Organization
- WTO
- World Trade Organization
CONCEPTS AND PRODUCTS
- AAL
- average annual loss
- AEP
- aggregate exceedance probability
- AET
- actual evapotranspiration
- ARIMA
- autoregressive ...
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