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A list of terms related to Bird flu.

Healthcare poses a complex challenge for developing countries, interweaving problems of science, health and development.

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FAO

See Food and Agriculture Organization.

Flu

Common name for influenza.

Flu

Common name for influenza.

Food and Agriculture Organization

United Nations agency concerned with food and agriculture, which aims to raise living standards and eliminate hunger by improving the production, processing, marketing, and distribution of food and agricultural products. www.fao.org

Food and Agriculture Organization

United Nations agency concerned with food and agriculture, which aims to raise living standards and eliminate hunger by improving the production, processing, marketing, and distribution of food and agricultural products. www.fao.org [link: http://www.fao.org]

Foreign direct investment

An investment by companies and organisations which results in the setting up or acquisition of production facilities in a foreign country (host country).

Framework conditions

National institutional and structural factors (e.g. legal, economic, financial, and educational) that set the rules and range of opportunities for innovation (OM).

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