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“The responsibility of [an] organization [government, business, or NGO] to account for its decisions and actions to those who have a legitimate interest in them and the processes and structures through which it meets this responsibility”.
 * Accountability**

//SOURCE//: (2008). //Sustainability: Glossary - Accountability// [online]. Vancouver 2010. Available from: http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/Sustainability/Glossary [Re-accessed: 06 March 2008].

“In agriculture, agribusiness is a generic term that refers to the various businesses involved in food production, including farming, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing, and retail sales. The term has two distinctly different connotations depending on context.
 * Agribusiness (aka “Corporate Farming)**

Within the agriculture industry, agribusiness is widely used simply as a convenient joining of agriculture and business, referring to the range of activities and disciplines encompassed by modern food production. There are academic degrees in and departments of agribusiness, agribusiness trade associations, agribusiness publications, and so forth, worldwide. Here, the term is only descriptive, and is synonymous in the broadest sense with food industry.

Among critics of large-scale, industrialized ,vertically integrated food production, the term agribusiness is used as a negative, synonymous with corporate farming. As such, it is often contrasted with family farm. “

//SOURCE//: (2008). //Agribusiness// [online]. Wikipedia. Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agribusiness [Re-accessed: 06 March 2008].