The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sustainable agriculture:
Sustainable agriculture – applied science that integrates three main goals, environmental health, economic profitability, and social and economic equity. These goals have been defined by various philosophies, policies, and practices, from the vision of farmers and consumers. Perspectives and approaches are very diverse. The following topics intend to help understand sustainable agriculture.
Introduction
editBranches of sustainable agriculture
edit- Fisheries management – protecting fishery resources in an effort to maintain sustainable fisheries
- Sustainable farming
- Sustainable forest management
- Sustainable gardening
Sustainable farming
editPerennial foods
edit- Achillea millefolium
- Asparagus
- Blitum bonus-henricus
- Breadfruit
- Cassava
- Crambe maritima
- Fruit
- Herb
- Nut (fruit)
- Olericulture
- Perennial vegetable
- Rhubarb
- Sacred herbs
- Shrub
- Sium sisarum
- Sorrel
- Taro
Sustainable forestry management
editSustainable landscaping
editApproaches in sustainable agriculture
editHydroculture
editIntegrated pest control
edit- Apiaceae
- Asteraceae
- Bee
- Beneficial insects
- Beneficial weed
- Biological pest control
- Bumblebee
- Chrysopidae
- Coccinellidae
- Companion planting
- Hoverfly
- Ichneumonoidea
- Insectary plant
- Integrated pest management
- List of beneficial weeds
- List of companion plants
- List of pest-repelling plants
- Pastured poultry
- Pollinator
- Rotational Grazing
- Soldier beetle
- Tachinidae
- Trap crop
- Trichogramma
Permaculture
edit- Berm
- Bill Mollison
- David Holmgren
- Holzer Permaculture
- Hügelkultur
- Keyline design
- P. A. Yeomans
- Sepp Holzer
- Swale (landform)
Regenerative agriculture
editSustainable development
editEconomic considerations
edit- Action plan
- Cash flow
- Comparative advantage
- Competitive advantage
- Consumer behaviour
- Core competency
- Economies of scale
- Elasticity (economics)
- Enterprise life cycle
- Enterprise modelling
- Enterprise planning system
- Gross margin
- Land grabbing
- Micro-enterprise
- Opportunity cost
- Product differentiation
- Resource-based view
- Risk
- Risk management
- Social enterprise
- Socially optimal firm size
- Substitute good
- Supply and demand
- Uncertainty
- Water grabbing
Farming and natural resources
editSustainable agricultural practices
edit- Sustainable farming
- Aquaponics
- Buffer zone
- Cash crop
- Chillcuring
- Controlled burn
- Crop rotation
- Drip irrigation
- Fertilizer
- Good Agricultural Practices
- Grass (or Lawn)
- Grazing management
- Green manure
- Irrigation
- Living mulch
- Monoculture
- Multiple cropping
- Open pollination -Pollination management
- Orchard
- Polyculture
- Primary succession
- Raingauge
- Relay cropping
- Secondary succession
- Shifting cultivation
- Sowing
- Tillage
- Vermicomposting
Rural development
editFood and food transformation
editEconomic, social and political context
edit- Ecological Economics
- patrimony
- Biosecurity
- Trade
- Bioregional democracy
- Environment
- Land ethic
- Theoretical ecology
Individuals
editConventions, 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
Index
editSee 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