Glossary F

The Environmental Glossary. Letter F +++ Popular Articles: 'Feeder', 'Function', 'Fishery'

A family planning is a system of limiting family size and the Frequency of childbearing by the appropriate use of contraceptive techniques.

Famine is the widespread malnutrition and starvation in a particular area because of a shortage of food, usually caused by drought, war, flood, earthquake, or other catastrophic events that disrupt food production and distribution.

Deutsch: Bauernhof / Español: Granja / Português: Granja / Français: Ferme / Italiano: Fattoria
A farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes or an area of water that is devoted primarily to aquacultural processes, in order to produce and manage such commodities as fibres, grains, livestock, or fuel.

Deutsch: Agrarwirtschaft / Español: Granja / Português: Granja / Français: Ferme / Italiano: Fattoria
A farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes (farming) or an area of water that is devoted primarily to aquacultural processes, in order to produce and manage such commodities as fibres, grains, livestock, or fuel.

A Farrow to Finish Operation is a production system that contains all production phases, from breeding to Gestation to Farrowing to Nursery to grow-finishing to market.

A Farrowing is the period from birth to weaning of a pig.

Deutsch: Strahlregler / Italiano: Rompigetto

A faucet aerator (or tap aerator) is a device that can installed onto the tip of a modern indoor water faucet head, creating a non-splashing stream and possibly delivering a mixture of water and air.

Faucet aerators are often installed in order to:

Sometime the aerator is already included in the faucet. Then a Faucet aerator is a device that can be installed in a sink to reduce water use (Jensen, 1991).

Deutsch: Fauna / Español: Fauna / Português: Fauna / Français: Faune / Italiano: Fauna /

The fauna is the total animal population that inhabits an area.

A FDA is U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is involved in regulation of pesticides in the U.S., particularly enforcement of tolerances in food and feed products.

A Feasibility Study is an evaluation of the practicality or viability of an idea.

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