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Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures
The Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) is a WTO agreement, in force since 1995, that prohibits local content and trade-balancing requirements inconsistent with GATT 1994.
Agreement to elect Władysław (1610)
The Agreement to elect Władysław (Договор о призвании королевича Владислава) comprises two 1610 treaties inviting the Polish prince Władysław to take the Moscow throne under written limits on royal power.
Agreena
Agreena (Agreena ApS) is a Copenhagen climate fintech startup, founded in 2018, that pays farmers to adopt regenerative agriculture and sells verified soil carbon certificates.
agri.capital
agri.capital, later renamed AC Biogas, was a renewable-energy company that developed, owned, and operated biogas plants in Europe from the mid-2000s through the 2010s, and was taken over by Alinda Capital Partners in 2011.
Agribusiness
Agribusiness, also called agricultural business, is the integrated system of businesses supplying farm inputs and producing, processing, and distributing food, a concept originated by Ray Goldberg at Harvard.
Agricola (board game)
Agricola (board game), Uwe Rosenberg's 2007 Lookout Games worker placement farming game set around 1670; 14 rounds, harvest feeding, Occupation and Improvement cards; 2016 Revised Edition, Caverna comparison, Spiel des Jahres special award.
Agriconomie
Agriconomie is a French agricultural e-commerce company, founded in 2014, that sells fertilizers, seeds, and other farm inputs online to farmers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Belgium.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act is a 1933 United States federal law that raised farm prices by paying farmers to reduce production, a key New Deal measure.
Agricultural aircraft
An agricultural aircraft, often called a crop duster, is an aircraft that dispenses pesticides, fertilizers, or seeds over crops and forests, a practice known as aerial application.
Agricultural Bank of China
Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) is one of China's four large state-owned commercial banks, serving the rural economy; it listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 2010.
Agricultural biotechnology
Agricultural biotechnology, also called agri-biotech, applies biological systems and organisms to crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries, and agro-industry, spanning marker-assisted breeding, GMOs, and CRISPR genome editing, with GM crops grown commercially since the mid-1990s in 73 countries.
Agricultural cooperative
An agricultural cooperative, also called a farmers co-op, is a business owned and financed by farmers who are its customers, with profits returned based on use.
Agricultural Cooperativization Movement
The Agricultural Cooperativization Movement (农业合作化运动) was the Chinese Communist Party's campaign from 1949 to 1956 to turn peasant farming into cooperatives, completing agriculture's socialist transformation by 1956.
Agricultural economics
Agricultural economics, also known as agroeconomics, is the branch of applied economics that studies food and fiber production, distribution, and consumption, arising in the late 19th century.
Agricultural engineering
Agricultural engineering is the branch of engineering applying engineering principles and biology to agricultural systems, from machinery and structures to soil, water, and food processing.
Agricultural experience Park
Agricultural experience park (农事体验园): a venue for hands-on farming, picking, and farm education, from the 1.8-hectare IBCAS garden at China National Botanical Garden to large rural leisure-agriculture parks in China, Japan, and Korea.
Agricultural extension
Agricultural extension: nonformal advisory services transferring information, skills, and technologies to farmers; institutionalized by the 1914 Smith-Lever Act, now pluralistic and increasingly digital, with meta-analyses showing positive average impacts.
Agricultural insurance in India
Agricultural insurance in India, chiefly PMFBY (Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana) and RWBCIS since Kharif 2016, subsidizes crop insurance with farmer premiums of 1.5-5%, area-yield loss assessment, and over ₹2.06 lakh crore in claims paid since inception.
Agricultural land
Agricultural land, also called farmland, is land used for agriculture: arable land, permanent crops, and pastures, covering about a third of the world's land area.
Agricultural landscape
Agricultural landscape (Agrarlandschaft, 农业景观): a landscape system focused on food and raw material production, covering about 40% of Earth's land ecosystems, shaped by centuries of farming, threatened by simplification, and managed through frameworks, nature-based solutions, and EU CAP policy.
Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland (Södra Ölands odlingslandskap), Swedish UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape inscribed 2000 under criteria iv and v; 56,323 ha of villages, arable land, coastal lands, and Stora Alvaret limestone plain farmed for about 5,000 years.
Agricultural lime
Agricultural lime (aglime): ground calcitic or dolomitic limestone and similar calcium/magnesium carbonates, oxides, or hydroxides used to neutralize soil acidity and raise pH; quality measured by CCE and fineness (ECCE).
Agricultural machinery
Agricultural machinery, also known as farm machinery or farm equipment, is equipment for farming operations, from hand tools and animal-drawn implements to tractors and combine harvesters.
Agricultural management
Agricultural management, also called farm management, is the allocation and manipulation of land, labor, capital, and biological resources on farms under risk and uncertainty, assessed today through sustainability frameworks, precision agriculture tools, and evidence libraries.
Agricultural marketing
Agricultural marketing is the set of exchange, physical, and facilitating functions that move farm produce from field to consumer: grading, storage, transport, processing, trade, financing, and price discovery.
Agricultural planning
Agricultural planning allocates land, water, capital, and labor to farming activities from farm to national scale, using methods from allocation budgeting and linear programming to participatory modeling, trade-off analysis, and land capability classification.
Agricultural policy
Agricultural policy: government laws and programs for farming, food supply, farm incomes, trade, and rural areas. Key instruments are direct payments, price support, tariffs, quotas, and rural development; the EU's CAP (1962) is the leading example.
Agricultural practices
Agricultural practices are the methods used to grow crops and livestock, from tillage and irrigation to named systems like conservation agriculture, organic farming, and agroecology, whose measured environmental gains and adoption gaps define sustainable farming.
Agricultural produce market committee
An Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC, mandi) is a statutory state-level body in India regulating wholesale trade of notified agricultural produce in designated market yards, operating under state APMC Acts, levying fees, licensing traders, and increasingly integrating with the e-NAM electronic platform.
Agricultural product
Agricultural product: goods from crops and livestock, including processed derivatives. Defined differently by WTO (HS Chapters 1-24 minus fish, plus wool, cotton), FAO's FCL/CPC classifications, and FAOSTAT data for 245+ countries.