Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

Of or pertaining to laws, political programs or schemes related to agriculture.

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Genetic engineering

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The use of recombinant DNA or other specific molecular gene transfer or exchange techniques to add desirable traits to plants, animals, or other organisms, or to enhance biological processes. ...

Generic certificates

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Commodity certificates used by the CCC in the 1980s to meet payment obligations and simultaneously dispose of commodity inventories.

Generic advertising and promotion

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The promotion of a particular commodity without reference to a specific producer, brand name, or manufacturer. Because individual producers of nearly homogeneous agricultural commodities cannot ...

Generalised System of Preferences (GSP)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

First authorised by the Trade Act of 1974, GSP allows some 140 developing countries to ship more than 3,000 products to the United States duty-free. This helps developing countries to generate ...

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

An agreement originally negotiated in Geneva, Switzerland in 1947 to increase international trade by reducing tariffs and nontariff trade barriers. The agreement provides a code of conduct for ...

Gleaning

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Collecting unharvested crops from fields or obtaining unused agricultural products from farmers, processors, or retailers, usually for distribution to food banks and charitable feeding organizations.