 A hostile attack, towards an agricultural environment, including infrastructures and processes, in order to significantly damage national and international political interests.The terms "agroterrorism", along with "agroterror" and "agrosecurity", were coined by veterinarian pathologist Corrie Brown and writer Esmond Choueke in September 1999 as a means to spread the importance of this topic.The first public use of "agroterrorism" was in a report by Dr. Brown which was then reprinted in a front page article of the New York Times on Sept. 22, 1999 by reporter Judith Miller.