Outline of sustainable agriculture
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Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals, environmental health, economic profitability, and social and economic equity. These goals have been defined by a variety of philosophies, policies and practices, from the vision of farmers and consumers. Perspectives and approaches are very diverse, the following topics intend to help understanding what sustainable agriculture is.
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Branches of sustainable agriculture
- 3 Approaches in sustainable agriculture
- 4 Economic considerations
- 5 Farming and natural resources
- 6 Agricultural practices
- 7 Rural development
- 8 Food and food transformation
- 9 Economic, social and political context
- 10 Conventions, protocols, panels and summits
- 11 Index
- 12 See also
- 13 References
- 14 External links
Introduction[edit]
- Sustainability
- Resilience (ecology)
- Agroecology
- Alan Chadwick
- Biodynamic agriculture
- Ecoagriculture
- French intensive gardening
- Horticulture
- John D. Hamaker
- Lady Eve Balfour
- Organic farming
- Polyculture
- Rudolf Steiner
Branches of sustainable agriculture[edit]
- Sustainable farming
- Fisheries management – protecting fishery resources in an effort to maintain sustainable fisheries
- Sustainable forest management
- Sustainable gardening
Sustainable farming[edit]
Perennial foods[edit]
- Perennial vegetable
- Olericulture
- Asparagus
- Blitum bonus-henricus
- Breadfruit
- Cassava
- Crambe maritima
- Fruit
- Herb
- Sacred herbs
- Nut (fruit)
- Rhubarb
- Shrub
- Sium sisarum
- Sorrel
- Taro
- Achillea millefolium
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Sustainable forestry management[edit]
Sustainable landscaping[edit]
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- Calvert Vaux
- Central Park
- John Muir
- Sierra Club
- Aldo Leopold
- A Sand County Almanac
- Ecosystem
- Ecology
- Biodiversity
- Soil food web
- Land ethic
- Food miles
Approaches in sustainable agriculture[edit]
Hydroculture[edit]
Integrated pest control[edit]
- Apiaceae
- Asteraceae
- Beneficial insects
- Bee
- Bumblebee
- Biological pest control
- Beneficial weed
- Companion planting
- Chrysopidae
- Coccinellidae
- Hoverfly
- Ichneumonoidea
- Insectary plant
- Integrated pest management
- List of beneficial weeds
- List of companion plants
- List of pest-repelling plants
- Pastured poultry
- Pollinator
- Soldier beetle
- Tachinidae
- Trap crop
- Trichogramma
Permaculture[edit]
- Permaculture
- Bill Mollison
- David Holmgren
- Sepp Holzer
- Holzer Permaculture
- Berm
- Swale (landform)
- Hügelkultur
- P. A. Yeomans
- Keyline design
Regenerative agriculture[edit]
Sustainable development[edit]
- Agronomy
- Economic development
- Development economics
- Agricultural economics
- Community-supported agriculture
- Muhammad Yunus
- Grameen Bank
- Microcredit
- Microfinance
- Value chain
- Supply chain
Economic considerations[edit]
- Enterprise planning system
- Enterprise life cycle
- Enterprise modelling
- Micro-enterprise
- Action plan
- Economies of scale
- Conditional budgeting
- Supply and demand
- Elasticity (economics)
- Gross margin
- Opportunity cost
- Cash flow
- Risk
- Uncertainty
- Risk management
- Substitute good
- Social enterprise
- Socially optimal firm size
- Comparative advantage
- Competitive advantage
- Core competency
- Product differentiation
- Resource-based view
- Consumer behaviour
- Land grabbing
- Water grabbing
Farming and natural resources[edit]
- Water
- Land
- Energy
- Air
- Weather
- Vegetation, Plant, animal, List of domesticated plants, List of vegetables, List of herbs, List of fruit, List of domesticated animals, Cereal
- Biodiversity
Agricultural practices[edit]
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- Aquaponics
- Chillcuring
- Crop practices
- Crop rotation
- Fertilizer
- Grass (or Lawn)
- Sowing
- Tillage
- Raingauge
- Grazing management
- controlled burn
- shifting cultivation
- multiple cropping
- polyculture
- monoculture
- cash crop
- vermicomposting
- buffer zone
- relay cropping
- living mulch
- open pollination -pollination management
- Orchard
- primary succession
- secondary succession
- green manure
- Good Agricultural Practices
- Irrigation
- Drip irrigation
- Wood
- Garden
- herbicide
- Genetic engineering
Rural development[edit]
Food and food transformation[edit]
Economic, social and political context[edit]
- Ecological Economics
- patrimony
- Biosecurity
- Trade
- Bioregional democracy
- Environment
- land ethic
- Theoretical ecology
Individuals[edit]
- René Dumont
- Donella Meadows
- José Bové
- Masanobu Fukuoka
- Wes Jackson
- Bill Mollison
- Vandana Shiva
- Wendell Berry
- Willie Smits
Conventions, protocols, panels and summits[edit]
- Agenda 21
- NATURA 2000
- [[Biosafet* Willie Smits
y protocol]] - Montreal 2000
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Convention on Fishing and Conservation of Living Resources of the High Seas
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
- International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially As Waterfowl Habitat
- Earth Summit 2002 (World summit on Sustainable Development), Johannesburg 2002
- International Seabed Authority
- International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983
- Kyoto Protocol
- Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
- Oxfam
Index[edit]
See also[edit]
- Outline of agriculture
- Agrarianism
- Agriculture
- Arid-zone agriculture
- Agricultural engineering
- Agricultural science
- Agricultural science basic topics
- Agritourism
- agroecology
- allotment gardens
- Aquaponics
- Biodynamic agriculture
- Biogeography
- Collective farming
- ecology
- Agricultural cooperative
- Forest gardening
- intensive agriculture
- Mariculture
- Organic food
- Organic farming
- Organic gardening -Permaculture
- precision agriculture
- urban agriculture
- water-wise gardening
- Sustainability
- value of life
- Nature
- Culture
- Palm sugar
- Arenga pinnata
- Related lists
- urban economics
- list of ecology topics
- list of environment topics
- list of ethics topics
- list of economics topics
- List of organic gardening and farming topics
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
- Sustainable agriculture - the basics
- Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education
