List of sustainable agriculture topics

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 to help understanding what sustainable agriculture is.

Table of contents 1 General terminology 2 Farming and Natural Resources 3 Biosphere 4 Agricultural practices 5 Rural development 6 Conservation and environmental issues 7 Food and food transformation 8 Economic, Social & Political Context 8.1 Individuals 9 Conventions, Protocols, Panels and Summits

General terminology

• Agrarianism - Agriculture - Arid-zone agriculture - Agricultural engineering - Agricultural science - Agricultural Science basic topics - Agritourism - ecology - agroecology - Biogeography - Mariculture - Organic - Permaculture - Organic farming - Organic gardening - Collective farming - precision agriculture - Forest gardening - water-wise gardening - intensive agriculture - farm co-op[?]

• Sustainability - Sustainable development - sustainable consumption[?] - sustainable use[?] - productivism

• 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

• Culture - cultural diversity - Cultural Resources Management - Ecotourism

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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

• 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

• Biodiversity - Species - Artificial selection - Ecological selection - Kin selection - Natural selection - Trophic level - allelopathy[?] - commensalism - compensating factor[?] - genetic erosion[?] - protocooperation[?] - heterosis[?] - xerophyte[?] - niche diversity[?] - Halotolerance

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Biosphere

• Terra - Terra Australis - Terraforming - Earth - Earth immune system - Gaia - Gaia hypothesis - Gaia theory

• bioregion - Ecosystem - Terrestrial ecoregion - Ecoregion - Ecozone - Biosphere - Biosphere I - Biosphere II - Biosphere III - Biome - Rainforest

• Grassland - Prairie - Tundra - Landscape

• Wetland - Fen - Marsh - Marsh gas - Swamp - Bog[?] - Peat bog - Lagoon - Flood plain, Delta Works

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Agricultural practices

• Crop practices - Crop rotation - Fertilizer - Grass - Sowing - Tillage - Raingauge - Grazing management - prescribed burn - shifting cultivation - multiple cropping - polyculture[?] - monoculture - vermicomposting[?] - buffer zone[?] - relay cropping[?] - living mulch[?] - open pollination[?] - primary succession[?] - secondary succession[?] - green manure[?] - Good Agricultural Practices - Irrigation

• Wood - Forest - List of forests - Forestry - Deforestation - Reforestation - Cloud forest - Rainforest - Forest fire - Canopy - Woodland - Woodland management - Driftwood - Canopy - Tree - Logging - Pollarding - Coppicing - Edge effect - Timberline

• 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[?]

• herbicide - pesticide - biocide - insecticide - integrated pest management

• Genetic engineering - Bioinformatics - Biostatistics - Biotechnology - GIS - synthetic variety[?]

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

• Conservation - Conservation biology - Conservation ecology - Global 200 - Seedbank - Biopiracy

• 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

• Genetically modified organism

• Algal bloom -

• Endangered species - Extinction - Extinction event - Primate extinction - Extinct birds - Small population size

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Food and food transformation

• Food - conventional food[?] - genetically modified food - organic food

• Food and agricultural policy - Biosafety - chronic toxicity - Slow Food - Ark of taste - food quality

• industrial ecology

Economic, Social & Political Context

• 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 - Ecofeminism - Ecology movement -

• land ethic

• Theoretical ecology - Ecological - Ecological niche - Ecological selection

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Individuals

• René Dumont
• Donella Meadows
• José Bové
• Masanobu Fukuoka
• Marc Bonfils
• Wes Jackson[?]
• Bill Mollison
• Vandana Shiva

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)

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• Oxfam

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