The terms used for Ask IFAS organization are selected with consideration of the terminology used in UF/IFAS publications and programs, as well as the terms recommended by the U.S. National Agricultural Library Thesaurus (NALT) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's AGROVOC thesaurus.&nbsp;

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Entities

Entidades

Components

Componentes

Agreements

Contratos de alquiler

Curricula

Data

Datos

An organization engaged in the production, distribution and/or sale of goods or services in order to satisfy customer requirements and make a profit.

Business Enterprises

Empresas de negocios 

Farms

Granjas 

The complex of climatic, soil and biotic factors that act upon an organism or ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival. [<a href="https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/26877">NALT</a>]

Environment

Ambiente

Finance

Finanzas

Data in a context which gives it meaning; any statement or estimate of fact or opinion, regardless of form or format ... includes data, text, spreadsheets, graphics, pictures, voice and video. [NALT]
The aggregation of data to make coherent observations about the world, meaningful data, or data arranged or interpreted in a way to provide meaning.[AGROVOC]

Information

Información

Regulations:&nbsp;A law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, esp. to regulate conduct.

Laws and Regulations

Leyes y regulaciones

Agricultural Trade

Mercadeo Agrícola y Comercio

Diet

Dietas y regímenes alimenticios

Institutions

Instituciones

A network is a collection of actors or nodes and the links or relationships between them.

Networks

Redes

Age Groups

Grupos por edades

A statement or other indication of policy or procedure by which to determine a course of action

Guidelines

Human-made Structures

Estructuras

Organizations

Organizaciones

A representation of the relationships that define a situation under study. A model may be a set of mathematical equations, a computer program, or any other type of representation, ranging from verbal statements to physical objects.

Models

The rules and organizing principles gleaned from aggregated data. The internalized or understood information that can be used to make decisions

Knowledge

A hypothetical construct of economic theory representing the place all potential buyers and sellers of all goods and services come together, express their desires and offer their wares, through bargaining establish a price structure and production schedule, and complete their transactions. In standard usage it refers to all locations where economic transactions occur treated as a single whole.&nbsp;
Source: Schwarz, Charles F.; Thor, Edward C.; Elsner, Gary H. 1976. Wildland planning glossary. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-13. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station via NALT
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