List of sustainable agriculture topics

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

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

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

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

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

Individuals

Conventions, Protocols, Panels and Summits

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