List of sustainable agriculture topics
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It 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.

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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 hypothesis - Gaia theory (science) - Gaia philosophy

• bioregion - Ecosystem - Terrestrial ecoregion - Ecoregion - Ecozone - Biosphere - Biosphere 2 - Biosphere 3 - Biome - Rainforest

• Grassland - Grass - Prairie - Tundra - Landscape

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

• Forest - Tree - Cloud forest - Rainforest - Canopy - Woodland - Edge effect - Tree-line

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Agricultural practices

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

• Wood - List of forests - Forestry - Deforestation - Reforestation - Forest fire - Woodland management - Driftwood - Logging - Pollarding - Coppicing

• 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 -

• Pollinator decline

• 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 - local 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)
• Oxfam

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Related lists

• urban economics
• list of ecology topics
• list of environment topics
• list of ethics topics
• list of economics topics
• list of food topics
• List of organic gardening and farming topics

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