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GLOSSARY
GLOSSARY
Agroecology:Agroecological farming
systems are based on ecological inputs and
processes and the provision of ecosystem
services. Acroecology also is an
interdisciplinary, holistic scientific approach
towards agricultural ecosystems and a
social movement (www.arc2020.eu)
Brain Drain: the emigration of highly trained
or educated people from a given country or
region
Community-led local development (CLLD):
Participative methodology for management
of EU funds, based on public-private
partnerships in community-led local action
groups. Integrated and multi-sectoral local
development strategies shall take into
account local potential and needs; see
textbox page 50
Common good: the good of a community
(alternative see wiki_common_good_
(economics))
Cooperative (organisation): autonomous
association of persons united voluntarily to
meet their common economic, social and
cultural needs and aspirations through a
jointly-owned and democratically-
controlled enterprise (wiki)
Erasmus: Student exchange programme
(EuRopean Community Acton Scheme for
the Mobility of University Students)
Food justice: “Food justice is communities
exercising their right to grow, sell and eat
healthy food” (quoted from foodforward.org)
Food Sovereignty: Food sovereignty is the
right of peoples to heathy and culturally
appropriate food produced through
ecologically sound and sustainable
methods, and their right to define their own
food and agriculture systems. It puts those
who produce, distribute and consume food
at the heart of the food systems and
policies rather than the demands of
markets and corporations. (Nyéléni
declaration)
HACCP: Hazard Analysis and Critical Control
Points: systematic risk prevention and
management approach for food safety
(from biological, chemical or physical
hazards)
Polder: an area of low land that was once
under the sea but that has been separated
from it by dykes (= walls or channels built to
prevent water covering an area) (Cambridge
Dictionary)
Resilience: the capacity (of an ecosystem, a
social system or an individual) to recover
from perturbations (and to adapt to
changed or adverse conditions)
Social Solidarity Economy (SSE): SSE refers
to enterprises and organisations which
produce goods, services and knowledge
that meet the needs of the community they
serve, through the pursuit of specific social
and environmental objectives and the
fostering of solidarity (source: ILO)
Stewardship: an ethical concept that
embodies the responsible planning and
management of resources
Trademarking: attribute with a recognisable
sign or design which identifies products or
services of a particular source from others
Warft: artificial mounds or hills created to
provide safe ground during high tides or
storms
FORUM SYNERGIES'
VOCABULARY
Art session: see textbox page 141
European Rural Sustainability Gathering
(ERSG): see textbox page 20
Field visits / rural reality check: see
textbox page 96
Fishbowl session: see textbox page 110
FS Farmers’ Ecology programme: The
Farmers’ Ecology programme works on the
collection, transmission and promotion of
(traditional) local knowledge related to
agro-ecosystem management
FS Forestry programme: see textbox page 64
FS Scholarships: see textbox page 146
FS training sessions: see textbox page 50
Lifeshop: Forum Synergies’ Lifeshops are
specific workshops designed to share
personal visions and discover sustainable
lifestyle of local rural communities
Market of Initiatives: see textbox page 77
Open Space method: A participant-driven
method for organising a meeting, based on
self-organisation, bottom-up offer of topics
and with open outcome. Participants can
move freely between several proposed
discussions (the “Law of Two Feet”).
Resource centre: Forum Synergies’
Resource Centre on Sustainable Rural
Development compiles success stories,
organisations and documents related to
rural sustainability
Rural Actors for Health: see textbox page 75
Sustainable Development in Lake Areas: A
(completed) Forum Synergies project
focussing on participation of civil society in
the implementation of EU environmental
legislation
Sustainable Mystery Tour: see textbox
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