Outline of sustainable agriculture

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 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.

Introduction[]

Agroecology
Alan Chadwick
Biodynamic agriculture
Ecoagriculture
French intensive gardening
Horticulture
John D. Hamaker
Lady Eve Balfour
Organic farming
Polyculture
Resilience (ecology)
Rudolf Steiner
Sustainability

Branches of sustainable agriculture[]

Fisheries management – protecting fishery resources in an effort to maintain sustainable fisheries
Sustainable farming
Sustainable forest management
Sustainable gardening

Sustainable farming[]

Sustainable farming

Natural farming
Masanobu Fukuoka

Perennial foods[]

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[]

Sustainable forest management

Sustainable Landscaping[]

Sustainable landscaping

A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
Biodiversity
Calvert Vaux
Central Park
Ecology
Ecosystem
Food miles
Frederick Law Olmsted
John Muir
Land ethic
Sierra Club
Soil food web

Approaches in sustainable agriculture[]

Hydroculture[]

Hydroculture

Integrated pest control[]

Permaculture[]

Permaculture

Berm
Bill Mollison
David Holmgren
Holzer Permaculture
Hügelkultur
Keyline design
P. A. Yeomans
Sepp Holzer
Swale (landform)

Regenerative agriculture[]

Biointensive agriculture
Booker T. Whatley
J. I. Rodale
The Rodale Institute

Sustainable development[]

Economic considerations[]

Farming and natural resources[]

Water
- Aquaculture
- Aquaponics
- Aqueduct
- Aquifer
- Brackish water
- Dam
- Drainage basin
- Estuary
- Hydrology
- Lake
- Mariculture
- Reservoir
- River

Land
- Soil
- Soil life
- Soil salination
- Soil science
- Terra preta

Energy
- Biogas
- Biomass

Air
- Arctic climate
- Climate
- Climate change
- Climate model
- Climate of the Alps
- Global climate change
- Meteorology
- Microclimate
- Microclimate
- Subarctic climate
- Temperate climate
- Wind

Weather
- Extreme weather
- Meteorology
- Monsoon
- Precipitation
- Rain
- Severe weather
- Subtropical cyclone
- Weather forecasting
- Wind

Vegetation, Plant, animal, List of domesticated plants, List of vegetables, List of herbs, List of fruit, List of domesticated animals, Cereal

Biodiversity
- Allelopathy
- Artificial selection
- Commensalism
- Ecological selection
- Genetic erosion
- Halotolerance
- Heterosis
- Kin selection
- Natural selection
- Protocooperation
- Species
- Trophic level
- xerophyte

Sustainable agricultural practices[]

Genetic engineering
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Biotechnology
- GIS

Gardening
- Garden (list)
  - Edible schoolyard
  - Indoor garden
  - Wild garden
- Allotment (gardening)
- Forest gardening
- Grass
- Organic gardening
- Vegetable growing
  - List of vegetables
- Water-wise gardening

Herbicide
- Biocide
- Biological pest control
- Insecticide
- Integrated pest management
- List of companion plants
- Pesticide
- Push–pull technology

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

Wood
- List of forests
- Forestry
- Coppicing
- Deforestation
- Driftwood
- Logging
- Pollarding
- Reforestation
- Wildfire
- Woodland management

Rural development[]

Planning
- Regional planning
- Zoning
- Green Belt
- Hima
- Rural community development
- Landscape ecology
- Land use

Food and food transformation[]

Food
- Ethical eating
- 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[]

Ecological Economics
patrimony
- Total quality management
Biosecurity
Trade
- Safe trade
- Equity
- Smart growth
- Life cycle assessment
- Willingness-to-pay
- Cost-effectiveness
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Full cost accounting
- Utility
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 economist
- Green economics
- Ecology movement -
Land ethic
Theoretical ecology
- Ecological
- Ecological niche
- Ecological selection

Individuals[]

René Dumont
Donella Meadows
José Bové
Masanobu Fukuoka
Wes Jackson
Bill Mollison
Vandana Shiva
Wendell Berry
Willie Smits

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