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.
General terminology[edit | edit source]
- 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 - Sustainable development - sustainable consumption - sustainable use - productivism
- value of life - Life-style choice - Allotment (gardening) - living wall - eco-village - Autonomous building - Subsistence farming
- Nature - Natural capitalism - Natural medicine - Natural order - Natural resource - Natural selection - Environment - renewable resource - dynamic equilibrium
- Culture - cultural diversity - Cultural Resources Management - Ecotourism - Ecological Economics
Farming and natural resources[edit | edit source]
- Water - Aquaculture - Aquaponics - Aqueduct - Aquifer - Hydrology - Brackish water - Lake - Reservoir - Dam - River - Estuary - Drainage basin
- Land - Soil - Soil life - Soil salination - Soil science - Terra preta
- Energy - Biogas - Biomass
- Air - Climate - Climate change - Global climate change - Climate model - Microclimate - Arctic climate - Subarctic climate - Temperate climate - Climate of the Alps - Wind - Microclimate - Meteorology
- Weather - Weather forecasting - Wind - Extreme weather - Severe weather - Subtropical cyclone - Monsoon - Precipitation - Meteorology - Rain
- Vegetation, Plant, animal, List of domesticated plants, List of vegetables, List of herbs, List of fruit, List of domesticated animals, Cereal
- Biodiversity - Species - Artificial selection - Ecological selection - Kin selection - Natural selection - Trophic level - allelopathy - commensalism - compensating factor - genetic erosion - protocooperation - heterosis - xerophyte - niche diversity - Halotolerance
Agricultural practices[edit | edit source]
- 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 - primary succession - secondary succession - green manure - Good Agricultural Practices - Irrigation - Drip irrigation
- Wood - List of forests - Forestry - Deforestation - Reforestation - bushfire - wildfire - Woodland management - Driftwood - Logging - Pollarding - Coppicing
- Garden - List of gardens - List of organic gardening topics - Grass - Forest gardening - Gardening - wild garden - indoor garden - water-wise gardening - List of vegetables - Vegetable growing - Allotment (gardening) - edible schoolyard - indoor garden
- herbicide - pesticide - biocide - insecticide - Biological pest control - integrated pest management - List of companion plants - Push–pull technology
- Genetic engineering - Bioinformatics - Biostatistics - Biotechnology - GIS - synthetic variety
Rural development[edit | edit source]
- Planning - Regional planning - Zoning - Green Belt - hima - Rural community development - rural sustainability - landscape ecology - Land Utilization Type - Land use
Food and food transformation[edit | edit source]
- Food - conventional food - genetically modified food - organic food - local food - low carbon diet
- Food and agricultural policy - Biosafety - chronic toxicity - Slow Food - Ark of taste - food quality
- industrial ecology - heirloom plant
Economic, social and political context[edit | edit source]
- Ecological Economics
- patrimony - total quality management
- Biosecurity
- Trade - Safe trade - Equity - Smart growth - cost effectiveness-assessment - Life cycle assessment - Willingness-to-pay - cost-effectiveness - full cost accounting - utility - safe site
- Bioregional democracy - top-down approach
- Environment - Environmental organization - Environmental movement - Environmentalism - Radical environmentalism - Environmental agreements - Environmental law - International environmental law - Environmental finance - Environmental economics - Green - Green economist - Green economics - Ecology movement -
- land ethic
- Theoretical ecology - Ecological - Ecological niche - Ecological selection
Individuals[edit | edit source]
- René Dumont
- Donella Meadows
- José Bové
- Masanobu Fukuoka
- Marc Bonfils
- Wes Jackson
- Bill Mollison
- Vandana Shiva
- Wendell Berry
Conventions, protocols, panels and summits[edit | edit source]
- 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