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 General concepts
- 2.1 Sustainable landscape
- 2.2 Sustainable agriculture
- 2.3 Sustainable development
- 2.4 Willie Smits
- 2.5 Regenerative agriculture
- 2.6 Natural farming
- 2.7 Permaculture
- 2.8 Hydroculture
- 2.9 Renewable energy
- 2.10 Sustainable forestry
- 2.11 Perennial foods
- 2.12 Integrated pest control
- 2.13 Economic considerations
- 3 Farming and natural resources
- 4 Agricultural practices
- 5 Rural development
- 6 Food and food transformation
- 7 Economic, social and political context
- 8 Conventions, protocols, panels and summits
- 9 Index
- 10 Related lists
Introduction[edit]
General concepts[edit]
- 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
Sustainable landscape[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
Sustainable agriculture[edit]
- Agriculture
- Horticulture
- Agroecology
- Ecoagriculture
- Sustainable agriculture
- John D. Hamaker
- Rudolf Steiner
- Biodynamic agriculture
- Alan Chadwick
- Lady Eve Balfour
- French intensive gardening
- Polyculture
- Organic farming
Sustainable development[edit]
- Agronomy
- Economic development
- Development economics
- Agricultural economics
- Community-supported agriculture
- Muhammad Yunus
- Grameen Bank
- Microcredit
- Microfinance
- Value chain
- Supply chain
Willie Smits[edit]
Regenerative agriculture[edit]
Natural farming[edit]
Permaculture[edit]
- Permaculture
- Bill Mollison
- David Holmgren
- Sepp Holzer
- Holzer Permaculture
- Berm
- Swale (landform)
- Hügelkultur
- P. A. Yeomans
- Keyline design
Hydroculture[edit]
Renewable energy[edit]
Sustainable forestry[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
Integrated pest control[edit]
- Integrated pest management
- Biological pest control
- Pastured poultry
- Beneficial weed
- List of beneficial weeds
- Insectary plant
- Companion planting
- List of companion plants
- List of pest-repelling plants
- Apiaceae
- Asteraceae
- Beneficial insects
- Bee
- Bumblebee
- Pollinator
- Chrysopidae
- Coccinellidae
- Hoverfly
- Ichneumonoidea
- Soldier beetle
- Trichogramma
- Tachinidae
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
Conventions, protocols, panels and summits[edit]
- Agenda 21
- NATURA 2000
- Biosafety 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