Glossary
Pesticide
According to the official definition used by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), a pesticide means any substance, or any mixture of substances consisting of chemical or biological ingredients, intended for repelling and combating pests, diseases and weeds as well as plant growth regulators. Pesticides can be classified as follows:
- Biocides (products for protecting humans and animals) e.g. cleaning agents and disinfectants
- Crop protection products (products for protecting plants) e.g. fungicides, which are fungal control agents
This definition also corresponds to the definitions of pesticides and crop protection products in European legislation (EFSA, EU Directives).
Terms from the glossary
- Abiotic / Biotic Stress
- Agroecology
- Analytics
- Bees
- Bio-dynamic agriculture
- Biocides
- Biodiversity
- Biologicals
- Biotechnology
- Carcinogenic
- Causality
- Chemophobia
- Cisgenic Plants
- Climate change
- Conventional agriculture
- Correlation
- CRISPR/Cas9
- Digital Agriculture
- Flower strips
- Food Loss
- Food security
- Food Waste
- Gene editing
- Genetic engineering
- Hazard
- Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHP)
- Insect deaths
- Integrated Pest Management
- Limit values
- Metabolites
- Molecular Pharming
- Mutation breeding
- Organic farming
- Organic pesticides
- Pesticide
- Plant breeding
- Plant protection products
- Poison cocktail
- Population growth
- Precautionary principle
- Precision Fermentation
- Regenerative agriculture
- Resilience in the food system
- Resource efficiency
- Risk
- Rural exodus
- Seed treatment, seed dressing
- Species diversity
- Sustainability
- Synthetic pesticides
- Taxonomy
- The Green Revolution
- Transgenic plants
- Urban Farming
- Water scarcity
- Weeds