List of sustainable agriculture topics
|
|
It 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 |
General terminology
- Agrarianism - Agriculture - Arid-zone agriculture - Agricultural engineering - Agricultural science - Agricultural Science basic topics - Agritourism - agroecology - Biodynamic Agriculture - Biogeography - Collective farming - ecology - farm co-op - Forest gardening - intensive agriculture - Mariculture - Organic - Organic farming - Organic gardening -Permaculture - precision agriculture - water-wise gardening
- value of life - Life-style choice - Allotment (gardening) - living wall - eco-village - Autonomous building
- Nature - Natural capitalism - Natural medicine - Natural order - Natural resource - Natural selection - Environment - renewable resource - dynamic equilibrium
Farming and Natural Resources
- Water - Aquaculture - Aqueduct - Aquifer - Hydrology - Brackish water - Lake - Reservoir - Dam - River - Estuary - watershed
- Land - soil - Soil life - Soil salination - Soil science
- 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
Biosphere
- Terra - Terra Australis - Terraforming - Earth - Earth immune system - Gaia hypothesis - Gaia theory (science) - Gaia philosophy
- bioregion - Ecosystem - Terrestrial ecoregion - Ecoregion - Ecozone - Biosphere - Biosphere 2 - Biosphere 3 - Biome - Rainforest
- Wetland - Fen - Marsh - Marsh gas - Swamp - Bog - Peat bog - Lagoon - Flood plain, Delta Works
- Forest - Tree - Cloud forest - Rainforest - Canopy - Woodland - Edge effect - Tree-line
Agricultural practices
- Crop practices - Crop rotation - Fertilizer - Grass (or Lawn) - Sowing - Tillage - Raingauge - Grazing management - controlled burn - shifting cultivation - multiple cropping - polyculture - monoculture - vermicomposting - buffer zone - relay cropping - living mulch - open pollination -pollination management - primary succession - secondary succession - green manure - Good Agricultural Practices - 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 farming - Allotment (gardening) - edible schoolyard - indoor garden
Rural development
- Planning - Regional planning - Zoning - Green Belt - hima - Rural community development - rural sustainability - landscape ecology - Land Utilization Type - Land use
Conservation and environmental issues
- Pollution - Acid rain - Pesticide - Carbon dioxide - Biodegradation - impact of global climate change on agriculture - Global climate change
- Soil erosion - overgrazing - deforestation - Soil remediation - Soils retrogression and degradation - Desertification
- Endangered species - Extinction - Extinction event - Primate extinction - Extinct birds - Small population size
Food and food transformation
- Food and agricultural policy - Biosafety - chronic toxicity - Slow Food - Ark of taste - food quality
Economic, Social & Political Context
- Trade - Safe trade - Equity - Smart growth - cost effectiveness-assessment - Life cycle assessment - Willingness-to-pay - cost-effectiveness - full cost accounting - utility - safe site
- Environment - Environmental organization - Environmental movement - Environmentalism - Radical environmentalism - Environmental agreements - Environmental law - International environmental law - Environmental finance - Environmental economics - Green - Green economist - Green economics - Ecofeminism - Ecology movement -
Individuals
- René Dumont
- Donella Meadows
- José Bové
- Masanobu Fukuoka
- Marc Bonfils
- Wes Jackson
- Bill Mollison
- Vandana Shiva
- Wendell Berry
Conventions, Protocols, Panels and Summits
- 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