A distributed ledger is a consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple sites, countries, or institutions. There is no central administrator or centralized data storage.
Diversity
A range of people with various racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds and various lifestyles, experiences, and interests. Diversity refers to the traits and characteristics that make people unique.
Ecosystem Service Marketplace
Ecosystem services are the many and varied benefits that humans freely gain from the natural environment and from properly-functioning ecosystems such as air and water quality, habitat, esthetics and recreation. A marketplace quantifies and creates markets based on the change over time in those services.
Equality
Treating everyone the same and giving everyone access to the same opportunities.
Equity
Proportional representation (by race, class, gender, etc.) in opportunities. Equity refers to the fact that different people have varying needs of support and assistance and strives to achieve fairness in treatment and outcomes.
Ethnicity
Denotes groups that share a common identity- based ancestry, language, or culture.
Farm Hack
Farm Hack is a community of collaborators interested in developing and sharing open-source tools for resilient agriculture. Individuals and organizations, nonprofits and businesses alike are invited to participate in the platform for community-based sharing and collaborative research. Through an open source ethic, Farm Hack aims to retool farms for a sustainable future.
FarmOS
A free and open-source web-based farm management and record keeping system that also provides a platform for the creation of custom modules and integration across decision tools, observation tools and agricultural internet of things devices.
Field Methods Working Group
The field methods group bridges science with the available tools to create a versioned and flexible tiered approach to support the needs of farmers/ranchers, researchers, and markets.
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
Free and open source software is software that can be classified as both free software and open-source software. That is, anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software.