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Do you speak "ecological benefits"?

Lex Icons™ are an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and machine-readable icons that describe how we create positive impacts to meet the globe’s greatest challenges.

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Do you speak "ecological benefits"?

Lex Icons™ are an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and machine-readable icons that describe how we create positive impacts to meet the globe’s greatest challenges.

Learn More

Born from an unprecedented global collaboration between hundreds of designers and agrifood system experts, the system that began as Foodicons™ has now evolved into the more comprehensive system of Lex Icons™, consisting of several thousands of machine-readable visual representations of foundational terms and concepts. Learn more here.

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Ecological Survey

Conducting comprehensive ecological surveys to assess the overall health and biodiversity of ecosystems, including the measurement of various abiotic and biotic factors.

Juli Panchani

India

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Ecological Benefits Monitoring

"Engaging and consulting with local communities, indigenous peoples, and other stakeholders affected by carbon market projects to ensure their meaningful participation in project planning, implementation, and benefit sharing. "

Juli Panchani

India

Customer Feedback

Air Quality Monitoring

Application of air quality models and simulation tools to estimate pollutant concentrations, predict dispersion patterns, and assess the impact of emissions on air quality.

Giulio Satriani

Italy

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Water Quality Monitoring

"This type of MRV involves the collection and analysis of water samples to assess various parameters that indicate water quality. These parameters may include chemical constituents (e.g., pH, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, heavy metals), biological indicators (e.g., presence of pathogens, aquatic biodiversity), and physical properties (e.g., temperature, turbidity). Monitoring water quality helps identify potential contaminants, evaluate compliance with water quality standards or regulations, and assess the effectiveness of pollution control measures. "

Juli Panchani

India

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Soil Moisture Monitoring

Measuring soil moisture content using sensors or probes to assess soil water availability, irrigation needs, and the potential for drought stress.

Juli Panchani

India

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New Growth Conservation

New growth refers to young forests that have recently regenerated after disturbance or harvesting.

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Customer Feedback

Payment Frequency - Improved

How frequently are project developers/ stakeholders compensated for impact.

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

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Air Quality Modeling

Application of air quality models and simulation tools to estimate pollutant concentrations, predict dispersion patterns, and assess the impact of emissions on air quality.

Giulio Satriani

Italy

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Air Quality Modeling

Benefit-sharing Mechanism

Developing and implementing mechanisms that ensure the fair and equitable distribution of benefits derived from EBF activities. This may include revenue-sharing arrangements, community benefit funds, or participation in decision-making processes.

Giulio Satriani

Italy

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Benefit-sharing Mechanism

Biodiversity Credits

Biodiversity credit refers to economic instruments to fund activities that drive positive impact and gains on biodiversity. Contrast to biodiversity offsets in which payments made to compensate biodiversity ecosystem damage, the biodiversity credit enable companies to support positive biodiversity projects and provide long term funding.

Giulio Satriani

Italy

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Biodiversity Credits

Blockchain-based Registry

Blockchain based registry is a log and account registry on what projects have developed credits, who has bought the credits, who retired the credit and according to what methodology that enhanced with blockchain technology to improves efficiency, trust and user experiences.

Giulio Satriani

Italy

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Blockchain-based Registry

Carbon Capture

Carbon capture refers to the process of capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions to mitigate climate change and reduce greenhouse gas concentrations.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Carbon Capture

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO0)

Entity structure that uses bottom up system with no central authority implementing smart contract. Members have access to own tokens and vote on initiatives of entity.

Nilufer Sen

Turkey

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO0)

Ecological Benefits Monitoring

Engaging and consulting with local communities, indigenous peoples, and other stakeholders affected by carbon market projects to ensure their meaningful participation in project planning, implementation, and benefit sharing.

Juli Panchani

USA

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Ecological Benefits Monitoring

Forest Carbon Monitoring

Monitoring and assessing changes in forest cover, carbon stocks, and associated emissions or removals in carbon forestry projects or REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) initiatives.

Juli Panchani

USA

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Forest Carbon Monitoring

GPS

Global Positioning Systems (GPS) is a receiver that collects satellite signals. In the context of EBF, this may refer to an MRV aspect of collecting and monitoring data.

Olya Batievskaya

Ukraine

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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GPS

Improved Forest Management

Improved forest management focuses on managing vegetation, restoring ecosystems, reducing hazards, and maintaining forest health in a way that results in increased carbon stocks within forests and/or reduces GHG emissions from forestry activities when compared to business-as-usual forestry practices.
Improved Forest Management

Olya Batievskaya

Ukraine

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Improved Forest Management

Improved Forest Management

Indigenous Stewardship

Indigenous stewardship refers to the traditional knowledge, practices, and systems of governance exercised by Indigenous communities in managing and caring for their lands, territories, and resources. It involves a holistic and sustainable approach that respects the interconnectedness between nature, culture, and community.
Indigenous Stewardship

Olya Batievskaya

Ukraine

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Indigenous Stewardship

Indigenous Stewardship

Leakage

Leakage, in the context of EBF, refers to the unintended consequences or negative effects that may occur as a result of implementing a specific action or project aimed at addressing an environmental issue. It refers to the displacement or shifting of negative impacts from one area or activity to another, often undermining the overall effectiveness of the intended intervention.
Leakage

Olya Batievskaya

Ukraine

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Leakage

Leakage

Mobile Monitoring

Mitigation refers to the actions taken to reduce or prevent the impact of a potential harm or threat (e.g. mitigating fires in forests, or mitigating climate change by reducing carbon emissions)
Mobile Monitoring

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Mobile Monitoring

Mobile Monitoring

NFT/Token

NFT/Token

Juli Panchani

USA

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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NFT/Token

NFT/Token

Outcomes-Based Assessment

Outcomes-based assessment is an approach used to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of interventions, programs, or policies by focusing on the outcomes achieved rather than on the practices. It involves assessing the extent to which desired outcomes, such as changes in condition, well-being, or behavior, have been achieved as a result of the intervention.
Outcomes-Based Assessment

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

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Outcomes-Based Assessment

Outcomes-Based Assessment

Permanence Risk Assessment

Permanence risk refers to the possibility of released or re-emitted carbon, such as through forest fires or decay of stored biomass, which would negate the intended emissions reductions or removals.
Permanence Risk Assessment

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Permanence Risk Assessment

Permanence Risk Assessment

Practice-Based Assessment

Practice-based assessment refers to the evaluation of a project based on specific practices or activities implemented within an organization, project, or initiative. Instead of focusing solely on broad outcomes or indicators, practice-based measurement emphasizes the assessment of specific actions, processes, or interventions to understand their effectiveness and impact.
Practice-Based Assessment

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Practice-Based Assessment

Practice-Based Assessment

Project Developer

A project developer refers to an individual or entity responsible for conceiving, planning, and overseeing the execution of a project from its inception to completion.
Project Developer

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Project Developer

Project Developer

Reforestation

Reforestation refers to the practice of planting forests where previously a forest had been cut down.

Mingyu Han

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Reforestation

Renewable Energy Credit (REC)

Renewable Energy Credit (REC) is a market based instrument focusing on renewable energy generation using megawatt hours as unit of measure sourced from electricity generators. REC can underlie claim use of renewable electricity generation and lower company or organization’s market based electricity emission

Mingyu Han

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Renewable Energy Credit (REC)

Shared Carbon Offset Projects

Neighboring entities collaborate on a joint carbon offset project where the carbon credits generated are shared between them. This could involve implementing emission reduction activities, such as renewable energy projects or methane capture initiatives, on both properties to collectively generate carbon offsets.

Mingyu Han

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Shared Carbon Offset Projects

Tokenized Credit

Carbon credit is tokenized as digital representation of real world carbon credit on blockchain through platforms such as Toucan, Nori or others. The paper certificate or some other sort of evidence is translated into an entry of public digital ledger

Juli Panchani

USA

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Tokenized Credit

Voluntary Market Credits

Voluntary carbon markets are self governed and not enforced or legally mandated in which companies, organizations or individual generating carbon offsets can issue and sell them to others to decrease their carbon emissions. This includes several markets such as American Carbon Registry (ACR); Climate Action Reserve (CAR) Registry (APX, Inc); Gold Standard Registry (APX, Inc); Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Registry (Verra); Climate, Community, & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS) Registry (Verra); Social Carbon Registry (Markit); Plan Vivo Registry (Markit)

Juli Panchani

USA

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Voluntary Market Credits

Water Quality Monitoring

This type of MRV involves the collection and analysis of water samples to assess various parameters that indicate water quality. These parameters may include chemical constituents (e.g., pH, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, heavy metals), biological indicators (e.g., presence of pathogens, aquatic biodiversity), and physical properties (e.g., temperature, turbidity). Monitoring water quality helps identify potential contaminants, evaluate compliance with water quality standards or regulations, and assess the effectiveness of pollution control measures.

Juli Panchani

USA

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Water Quality Monitoring

ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS FROM A TO Z

Permaculture

Data analysis is the process of applying statistical techniques to describe, illustrate, condense, recap, and evaluate data from a project.

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Permaculture

Permanence

Permanence, in the context of EBF, refers to the long-term durability or enduring nature of certain actions, practices, or initiatives. It emphasizes the goal of creating lasting positive impacts that can withstand the test of time and contribute to the preservation of the environment and its resources for future generations.

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Permanence

Permanence Risk Assessment

Permanence risk refers to the possibility of released or re-emitted carbon, such as through forest fires or decay of stored biomass, which would negate the intended emissions reductions or removals.
Permanence Risk Assessment

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Permanence Risk Assessment

Permanence Risk Assessment

Philanthropic Giving

The action of offering and promoting welfare for others through charitable acts or good works.
Philanthropic Giving

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Philanthropic Giving

Philanthropic Giving

Photochemical Modeling

Generally used in regulatory or policy assessments to simulate the impacts from all sources by estimating pollutant concentrations and deposition of both inert and chemically reactive pollutants over large spatial scales.
Photochemical Modeling

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Photochemical Modeling

Photochemical Modeling

Plastic Mitigation

Plastic reduction refers to efforts aimed at minimizing the production, consumption, and disposal of plastic materials to mitigate the negative environmental impacts associated with plastic pollution.
Plastic Mitigation

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Plastic Mitigation

Plastic Mitigation

Poaching Mitigation

Avoided poaching refers to the prevention or reduction of illegal hunting or capturing of wildlife, particularly for commercial purposes or exploitation. It involves implementing measures and strategies to deter poaching activities and protect vulnerable species from illegal hunting and trade.
Poaching Mitigation

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

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Poaching Mitigation

Poaching Mitigation

Pollinator Management

Pollinator Management regers to things such as strategic beehives, also known as managed or planned beehives. This is the intentional placement and management of habitats in specific locations for various purposes, such as maximizing production, crop pollination, or ecosystem health.
Pollinator Management

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Pollinator Management

Pollinator Management

Population Monitoring

Can refer to using transect surveys to monitor butterfly, count bird populations and other species and methods – This is to assess changes in their richness, diversity, and abundance.
Population Monitoring

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Population Monitoring

Population Monitoring

Poverty

A state of lacking sufficient financial resources to meet basic needs for a standard living; encompasses inadequate access to essentials like food (which manifests in hunger and malnutrition), shelter, education, and healthcare; a complex societal issue influenced by economic, social, and political factors; addressing poverty involves implementing policies and initiatives that promote economic opportunities, social equity, and overall well-being.

Emily Murphy

USA

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Poverty

Poverty (Reduced)

Measures implemented to offer relief from extreme financial hardship and associated detriments to quality of life and general wellbeing; ideally, aid will provide enduring economic, social, political benefits in addition to poverty alleviation.

Emily Murphy

USA

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Poverty (Reduced)

Practice-Based Assessment

Practice-based assessment refers to the evaluation of a project based on specific practices or activities implemented within an organization, project, or initiative. Instead of focusing solely on broad outcomes or indicators, practice-based measurement emphasizes the assessment of specific actions, processes, or interventions to understand their effectiveness and impact.
Practice-Based Assessment

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Practice-Based Assessment

Practice-Based Assessment

Privately Owned Land

Land owned by an individual or a private entity that chooses to participate in an EBF project voluntarily and leases or sells their land for the purpose of carbon sequestration or other ecological benefits.
Privately Owned Land

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Privately Owned Land

Privately Owned Land

Process-based Modelling

Process-based modeling applies a scientific understanding of how an ecosystem works and applies this knowledge to predict the likely outcomes of activities of a project in a specific location. It then uses data collection (activity monitoring) to verify the actual outcomes of the project.
Process-based Modelling

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Process-based Modelling

Process-based Modelling

Project Developer

A project developer refers to an individual or entity responsible for conceiving, planning, and overseeing the execution of a project from its inception to completion.
Project Developer

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Project Developer

Project Developer

Protecting Mycorrhizal Networks

Protecting mycorrhizal networks involves implementing practices and policies that safeguard the health and integrity of symbiotic associations between fungi and plant roots.
Protecting Mycorrhizal Networks

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Protecting Mycorrhizal Networks

Protecting Mycorrhizal Networks

Public Education

Sharing knowledge with the public and local stakeholders.
Public Education

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Public Education

Public Education

Rainwater Collection

The collection and storage of rain for reuse.
Rainwater Collection

Hendi Perkasa

Indonesia

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Rainwater Collection

Rainwater Collection

Receptor Modelling

Observational techniques which use the chemical and physical characteristics of gasses and particles measured at source and receptor to both identify the presence of and to quantify source contributions to receptor concentrations.
Receptor Modelling

Mingyu Han

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Receptor Modelling

Receptor Modelling

Reducing Surface Runoff

Reducing surface runoff refers to implementing measures to minimize the amount of water that flows over the land surface during precipitation events that may lead to flooding, erosion, etc.

Mingyu Han

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Reducing Surface Runoff

Reforestation

Reforestation refers to the practice of planting forests where previously a forest had been cut down.

Mingyu Han

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Reforestation

Regeneration

Regeneration refers to the process by which ecosystems restore and renew themselves after disturbance through the reestablishment of ecological functions, species composition, and habitat structures.

Mingyu Han

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Regeneration

Regenerative Grazing

Livestock management strategy that promotes healthy soils and grasslands; can increase water infiltration and reduce erosion of soil; can increase conservation of water resources on farms.

Lex Icons Community

USA

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Regenerative Grazing

Regulatory Compliance Reporting

Regulatory compliance reporting is an organization’s action to report its adherence to laws, regulations, guidelines, and specifications relevant to its business processes.

Mingyu Han

Lex Icons™ is an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe global food and agriculture.

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Regulatory Compliance Reporting

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