The cryosphere is those portions of Earth's surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and frozen ground (which includes permafrost).

The components of the Earth system that contain a substantial fraction of water in a frozen state, i.e. sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets.

It has been hypothesized that the rise of economic incentive approaches (so-called ‘market-based’ approaches) in environmental policy making, could lead to a change in values towards a commercialization of nature (i.e. people putting more weight on instrumental values and less on intrinsic values of nature in decision-making). This risks undermining intrinsic motivation or pro-nature values and mindsets.

Relating to, or affecting, more than one sector (distinct part of society, or of a nation's economy).

The movement of pollen between the flowers of two distinct plants.

The pattern of crops produced on a given piece of land, or sequence in which the crops are cultivated on pieces of land over a fixed period, and their interaction with farm resources and other farm enterprises.

See ‘Wild relative’.

Increasing yields, area of extent and/or environmental impacts of agricultural production.

Social-ecological systems are complex, integrated systems in which humans are part of nature.

Country supplying genetic resources collected from in-situ sources, including populations of both wild and domesticated species, or taken from ex-situ sources, which may or may not have originated in that country (CBD, 1992).