Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)

An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a comprehensive, internationally harmonized report created by a product manufacturer that documents the ways in which a product, throughout its lifecycle, affects the environment. This report quantifies environmental information on the life cycle of that product to enable comparisons between products fulfilling the same function.

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.

ex-ante power analysis

The calculations used to estimate the smallest sample size needed for an experiment or research question, given a required significance level, statistical power, and effect size. This ensures adequate sampling densities and that data collected has sufficient power to detect changes over time.

FAIR

Guidelines for ‘good data management,’ which improve the discovery and (re)use of scholarly data by humans and computers (e.g., machine learning, algorithms). These principles include:
– Findable: Data (or any digital object), metadata (i.e., information about that digital object), and infrastructure (e.g., data registered or indexed in a searchable resource) should be easy to find for both humans and computers
– Accessible: Once found, there should be clear means of accessing data, metadata, or infrastructure of interest
– Interoperable: Data should interoperate with applications or workflows for analysis, storage, and processing
– Reusable: Metadata and data should be well-described so that they can be (re)used, replicated, or combined in different settings.

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.

Fidelity

In the context of this narrative, we are referring to fidelity of observed greenhouse gas benefits over time. This refers to a system of measuring and analyzing the degree to which a MMRV protocols are implemented as intended.

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.