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 help understanding what sustainable agriculture is.
General terminology
- 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
Farming and natural resources
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Food and food transformation
- Food
- conventional food
- ethical eating
- genetically modified food
- organic food
- local food
- low carbon diet
- Food and agricultural policy
- industrial ecology
Economic, social and political context
- Ecological Economics
- patrimony
- Biosecurity
- Trade
- Safe trade
- Equity
- Smart growth
- cost effectiveness-assessment
- Life cycle assessment
- Willingness-to-pay
- cost-effectiveness
- Cost-benefit analysis
- full cost accounting
- utility
- safe site
- Bioregional democracy
- Environment
- land ethic
- Theoretical ecology
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
Index
- Category: Sustainable agriculture
Related lists
- urban economics
- list of ecology topics
- list of environment topics
- list of ethics topics
- list of economics topics
- List of organic gardening and farming topics
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