# Agriculture Expert

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- CEFR: C2 (Proficient)
- Theme: Professional & Specialized
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Expert agriculture vocabulary for environmental farming science, including permaculture, carbon sequestration, regenerative agriculture and the mycorrhizal…

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* **permaculture**: A farming approach designed to work with natural ecosystems so land stays productive without depleting resources. — “The community farm follows **permaculture** principles.”
* **carbon sequestration**: The process of capturing and storing greenhouse gas, often in soil, trees or the ocean, to reduce its effect on climate. — “Restoring the forest increased **carbon sequestration** in the region.”
* **emissions trading**: A system that lets companies buy and sell permits to release a certain amount of greenhouse gas. — “**Emissions trading** gave factories a financial reason to pollute less.”
* **environmental impact assessment**: A formal study of how a proposed project would affect the local environment before it is approved. — “The dam could not proceed without an **environmental impact assessment**.”
* **conservation easement**: A legal agreement that permanently limits how a piece of land can be used, in order to protect it. — “The family placed the woodland under a **conservation easement**.”
* **overgrazing** /ˈoʊvərˌɡreɪzɪŋ/: Allowing too many animals to feed on land, damaging the grass and soil. — “**Overgrazing** left the hillside almost bare of grass.”
* **biofuel**: Fuel made from plants or organic waste, rather than fossil fuels. — “The farm grows crops specifically to produce **biofuel**.”
* **eutrophication**: Excess nutrients in water causing algae to grow and oxygen levels to drop. — “Fertiliser runoff caused **eutrophication** in the lake, killing many fish.”
* **afforestation**: Planting trees on land that had no forest before. — “The government launched an **afforestation** project on the old mining land.”
* **biopesticide**: A substance made from living organisms, such as bacteria or fungi, used to control crop pests. — “The farm switched to a **biopesticide** to avoid chemical residue on crops.”
* **regenerative agriculture**: Farming that improves soil and ecosystems rather than depleting them. — “**Regenerative agriculture** took four years to show in the yield figures.”
* **silvopasture**: Combining trees and grazing animals on the same land. — “**Silvopasture** gave shade, timber and the same stocking rate.”
* **mycorrhizal network**: The fungal threads linking plant roots underground. — “Ploughing destroys the **mycorrhizal network** faster than it rebuilds.”
* **nitrogen fixation**: The way certain plants capture nitrogen from the air. — “Clover does the **nitrogen fixation** that the fertiliser bill used to.”
* **leaching** /ˈlitʃɪŋ/: The washing of nutrients down through soil and out of reach. — “**Leaching** after a wet winter takes most of the autumn application.”
* **anaerobic digestion**: Breaking down waste without oxygen to make gas and fertiliser. — “**Anaerobic digestion** turned the slurry problem into an income.”
* **carbon offsetting**: Paying for emissions to be reduced somewhere else. — “**Carbon offsetting** is easier to sell than actually emitting less.”
* **payment for ecosystem services**: Paying landowners for the environmental benefits their land provides. — “**Payment for ecosystem services** finally valued the flooding the farm prevented.”
* **food miles**: The distance food travels from producer to consumer. — “**Food miles** turned out to matter less than how the food was grown.”
* **genetic erosion**: The loss of variety within crop or livestock species. — “**Genetic erosion** leaves a whole crop vulnerable to one disease.”
* **terroir**: The way soil, climate and place shape the character of a product. — “**Terroir** is the only word that captures why the same grape differs.”
* **closed-loop system**: A system where waste from one part feeds another. — “The whole farm ran as a **closed-loop system** with almost no inputs.”

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