21. David Katz - Sustainable Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture Basic guidelines for future farming by David Katz . One of the articles in Living With The Land (IC 8) Winter 1984, Page 37 http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC08/Katz.htm

Sustainable Agriculture Basic guidelines for future farming by David Katz One of the articles in Living With The Land (IC#8) Winter 1984, Page 37 David Katz was a co-founder of the Farallones Institute, where he served as executive director and president during its formative years. Since then he has been active as an agricultural activist and a consultant on a wide variety of land-related activities. He now lives in Davis, CA, where he farms and edits Agricultural Access, a magazine/catalog on agricultural information and books. You can get a complimentary subscription by writing to him at 615 Merchant St., Vacaville, CA 95866. SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE is a system of farming based on the principle that agriculture is, first and foremost, a biological process. In practice, sustainable agriculture attempts to mimic the natural ecosystem as much as possible. In order to do so, it strives to build complexity, to cycle nutrients, and to maintain the primacy of the sun as the main source of energy driving the system. What are the principles that might guide agriculture along a sustainable pathway? I've looked at the myriad definitions and ideas presented by many thinkers on this subject, hence the following principles are a summation of the work of such writers as Wendell Berry, Gil Friend, Richard Merrill, R.D. Hodges, and many others, with my own additions, as well.

22. Digital Green: A Participatory Framework For Agricultural Extension A research project that uses participatory videos to promote sustainable agricultural practices in small and marginal farming communities. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/india/projects/digitalgreen/

Digital Green is hiring Please click here ... GREEN Foundation Overview The DG system provides structure to a traditional, informally-trained vocation. The system improves the efficiency of extension programs by delivering targeted content to a wider audience and enabling farmers to better manage their farming operations with reduced field support. The features of the Digital Green system include: Digital video database for farmers by farmers Participatory process for content production Dissemination structure for informal training Sequence for initiating new communities ... Network of hubs and spokes for scalable content production and peer-learning Digital Green borrows concepts and experiences from the Digital StudyHall (DSH) system. Launched in September 2006 by Microsoft Research India's Technology for Emerging Markets team, a live deployment of a prototype is currently in development with the GREEN Foundation in villages near the Karanataka and Tamil Nadu-state borders in India. We are actively compiling a repository of videos that includes testimonials of progressive farmers, field demonstrations led by agriscientists, interactions amongst farmers, and market-based opportunities. The library currently contains over 150 locally-produced videos in the Kannada language. These recordings are minimally-edited prior to screenings, which are shown to individuals on laptops, small groups using shared TV and DVD players, and communities through the village cable network. Unlike attempts to use traditional mass media to broadcast agricultural information, DG is local and relevant. Farmers are motivated to adopt a new practice when they see a fellow villager, living in similar circumstances, experience its benefits.

23. Sustainable Agriculture | Bayside Grange Sustainable Agriculture. The Bayside Grange participates in Sustainable Agricultural efforts by working with the Northcoast Growers Association and the Community Alliance for Family http://www.baysidegrange.org/sustainableagriculture

Skip to Navigation Bayside Grange Home Sustainable Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture The Bayside Grange participates in Sustainable Agricultural efforts by working with the Northcoast Growers Association and the Community Alliance for Family Farmers - Humboldt: We have planned and coordinated events together while the Grange continues to be a central meeting facility. Work in sustainability for us includes becoming more energy efficient, reducing our waste, composting, watershed protection, supporting family farmers, fostering farm tours, and ongoing plant sales. Programs we have hosted have focused on CEQA, Historic Preservation, Septic systems and Salmonids. Farm to School / Institution as well as "Buy Fresh - Buy Local are programs we support. We also support the efforts of our sister Bodega Bay Grange whose members include Commercial Fishermen and Women who consider themselves the "Farmers of the Sea". Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goalsenvironmental health, economic profitability, and social and economic equity. Sustainability rests on the principle that we must meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Therefore

24. TILTH PRODUCERS OF WASHINGTON A Chapter of Washington Tilth Association, fosters and promotes ecologically sound sustainable agriculture in the interest of environmental preservation, human health and social equity. http://www.tilthproducers.org/

Home About Event Calendar News ... List Serve ecologically sound / economically viable / socially equitable TILTH PRODUCERS OF WASHINGTON Home WELCOME TO TILTH PRODUCERS! Please note: The Finnriver Farm Walk is FULL. Driving directions are HERE We look forward to seeing you at the conference! Annual Conference info is here Nominate Board Members here Contribute to the Silent Auction here Tilth Producers of Washington, a chapter of Washington Tilth Association , is the premier organic farming and sustainable agriculture organization of Washington State. A membership organization of more than 600 Washington growers and businesses, Tilth Producers promotes ecologically sound, economically viable and socially equitable farming practices that improve the health of our communities and natural environment. Our Supporters Socialize Updates Young Farmer Mixer! Organic Cocktail Contest Winner! In the News Organic fruit farm chosen for tour Educational program planned at Okanogan farm Organic Valley Reports Strong Growth Washington Organic Week on Ag Radio SAVE THE DATE! Annual Conference SUPPORT US!

25. Sustainable Agriculture Meetup Groups - Sustainable Agriculture Meetups Helps groups of people with shared interests plan meetings and form offline clubs in local communities around the world about Sustainable Agriculture http://sustainable-agriculture.meetup.com/

26. Common Sense Environmental Fund Supporting Effective Strategies To Sustainable Agriculture. T he environmental costs incurred through modern, chemical intensive farming are no longer acceptable. http://csshome.com/sustainableagriculture.htm

27. National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition National alliance of farm, rural development and conservation groups. Provides information on the organization, its work, publications, getting involved and the blog. http://sustainableagriculturecoalition.org/

28. Earthwise Resources Development Australasia A demonstration site for sustainable agriculture. Details of the site, courses in permaculture, location. http://www.earthwise.org.au/

29. Sustainable Agriculture: Definitions And Terms (1999; Revised 2007; Updated Link Sustainable Agriculture Definitions and Terms (1999; revised 2007) updated links 6/9/08 http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/terms/srb9902.shtml

You are here: Home Publications Sustainable Agriculture: Definitions and Terms (1999 and 2007) Printer Friendly Page Special Reference Briefs Series no. SRB 99-02 September 1999 Slightly updated text and URLs, August 2007 Compiled by: Mary V. Gold Alternative Farming Systems Information Center National Agricultural Library Agricultural Research Service U.S. Department of Agriculture 10301 Baltimore Avenue Beltsville, MD 20705-2351 National Agricultural Library Cataloging Record: Gold, Mary V. Sustainable agriculture : definitions and terms. (Special reference briefs ; 99-02) NAL Call #: aS21.D27S64 no. 99-02. ISSN 1052-5368 On this Page... Table of Contents Introduction Sustainable Agriculture: The Basics Some Background A Sampling of Perspectives The Future of the Sustainable Agriculture Concept For Further Reading and Author Indices Contents Introduction Sustainable Agriculture: The Basics Some Background Ecological Concerns ... Intensive/Controlled Grazing Systems Related terms: Rotational Grazing, Management Intensive Grazing (MIG), High-Intensity Low-Frequency Grazing (HILF), Time-Controlled Grazing (TCG), Holistic Range Management, Grassfarming, Pasture-Based Farming, and Voisin Management Grazing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Local/Community Food System Local/Community Food System Related terms: Foodshed concept

30. Sustainable Agriculture // Current Discover, create, and post news about Sustainable Agriculture on Current and influence what airs on TV http://current.com/groups/sustainable-agriculture/

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31. Sustainable Agriculture Extension Program Iowa State University Provides information on events, research, education, links, funding sources, relevant to Iowa. http://extension.agron.iastate.edu/sustag/

text only search the site Calendar Publications ... Funding Sources The Extension Sustainable Agriculture Program supports sustainable agriculture in Iowa by: providing information about sustainable agriculture in Iowa, providing training in the philosophy and implementation of sustainable agriculture to Extension staff and other information providers, sponsoring programs on sustainable agriculture for farmers, agricultural professionals, and the public, and working with government, non-profit, and agriculture groups in the state and region on a variety of sustainable agriculture issues. What's New: SARE PDP Call for Preproposals The 2008 Call for Preproposals for the PDP Competitive Grants is now available on the NCR SARE web site at: http://www.sare.org/ncrsare/PDP/PDP_2008_CallforPreproposals.pdf Farmland numbers decline: Fewer farms exist in the U.S., as a result of consolidation and a movement of land to non-agricultural uses, USDA said Friday. U.S. farm operators are estimated at 2.08 million at the start of this year, a decline of 0.6 percent from a year ago. Some 930.9 million acres were in farmland, down 1.5 million from one year earlier. The decline in farm numbers pushed the average farm size up to 449 acres, an increase of three acres from the previous year. Farms with sales less than $100,000 - which account for about 83% of all U.S. farms - dropped 1.2% due to consolidation and rising incomes that moved some farmers and ranchers into the next sales bracket without adding land or boosting their businesses. Operations with sales of $100,000 or more rose 2.2%

32. European Intitaitive For Sustainable Development In Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture in Practice Awareness, innovation and thorough balance of ecology and economy Integrated Farming points the way for future agriculture http://www.sustainable-agriculture.org/news.php

News About EISA Integrated Farming Framework Members ... Demonstration Farms News Sustainable Agriculture in Practice Awareness, innovation and thorough balance of ecology and economy Integrated Farming points the way for future agriculture EISA (Brussels): The annual EISA Farmers Exchange, hosted by Odling i Balans, the Swedish association for the promotion of sustainable agriculture, took place in Southern Sweden this year. "The event gave excellent insights in modern, efficient, and environmentally friendly agriculture again", said Tony Worth, chairman of EISA. "The Farmers Exchange has taken us to Sweden, France, Luxemburg, the UK, Germany and Austria in past years - and even though we have not left Central Europe, it is amazing to see how agriculture needs to respect different regions, different climatic and growing conditions as well as diverse marketing opportunities. The flexibility of Integrated Farming to adapt practices according to site and situation is a clear "sustainability advantage" of this production system", Worth concluded: For Sven Norup, Chairman of Odling i Balans, there is one distinctive feature of Integrated Farming (IF): "Farmers who follow this holistic system do not just act according to the relevant legislation: It is the IF planning, management and evaluation approach which allows to go beyond legal requirements, to develop perspectives and to improve everyday practice continuously."

33. Ohio Department Of Agriculture | Sustainable Agriculture Welcome to the Ohio Department of Agriculture. Skip Navigation. Please Note You are viewing the nonstyled version of the Ohio Department of Agriculture site. http://www.agri.ohio.gov/divs/SustainableAg/SustainableAg.aspx

34. Welcome — Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network A grassroots, statewide advocacy organization for sustainable agriculture and family farms in Washington State. Mission, programs, links. http://www.wsffn.org/

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35. Agricultures Network Aims for poverty alleviation through the promotion of agro-ecological approaches. Includes a collection of links, book reviews, and other information. http://www.leisa.info/

home about us search dossiers ... customize Partner Log in:  Password:  Welcome / Bienvenido / Salam / Bienvenue / Bem-vindo / 欢迎 AgriCultures Network Success stories from small-scale farmers are often hard to find. They do exist, and there is much to be learnt from them. They can help improve productivity, generate income, and empower farmers. The AgriCultures Network produces magazines and other media to build knowledge and exchange information, and stimulates debate and concerted action among key stakeholders. In this way we promote sustainable family farming, stressing its capacity to address structural global problems such as hunger, poverty, environmental degradation and climate change. Farming Matters readers' survey 2010 The results of the documentation process carried out by the AgriCultures Network partners AME Foundation Debate: What does good water governance mean? Found online - what are we reading? Editions salam.leisa.info agridape.leisa.info india.leisa.info china.leisa.info agriculturas.leisa.info latinoamerica.leisa.info

36. Sustainable Agriculture: Introduction Rainforest Alliance Certified (TM) Empowering communities, protecting wildlife, conserving forests. http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/agriculture.cfm?id=main

37. Center For Integrated Agricultural Systems | a Sustainable Agriculture Research A sustainable agriculture research center at the University of Wisconsin. Details of research, local involvement. http://www.cias.wisc.edu/

Contact Donate Publications What We Do ... School for Beginning Market Growers Offered in January Posted November 2010 The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers, a three-day workshop for people interested in starting a fresh market vegetable farm, will be offered January 14-16 on the UW-Madison campus. Continue Reading... Farm to School Projects at CIAS For over 20 years, the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, or CIAS, has been a leader in sustainable agriculture research and outreach at UW-Madison. We’ve been working on farm to school since 2002. Our current efforts include: [...more] The Driftless Region Food and Farm Project The Driftless Region Food and Farm Project is a coalition of farmers, consumers, institutions, agencies and organizations. Together, they aspire to meet the growing demand for local food by scaling up the production, aggregation, processing, distribution and marketing of food in the Driftless Region of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. [...more] Tiers of the Food System: A New Way of Thinking About Local and Regional Food From farmers’ markets to supermarkets, there is a spectrum of relationships between consumers and the businesses that grow, process, distribute and market their food. Small-scale, local food production is often contrasted with the anonymity of global, industrial food production, resulting in a black and white portrayal of local and global food systems. In reality, the food system is far more complex than local versus global and artisanal versus industrial.

38. Welcome To The Frontpage By the grace of Alex Funk and Funk Designs, Dancing Green, Inc., a 501(c)(3) taxexempt non-profit, is using the Sustainable Agriculture domain name to expand sustainability http://www.sustainableagriculture.org/

"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed."    ~Mohandas K. Gandhi "Respecting the whole of creation" Home Main Menu Welcome Home Permaculture Design DGI Education Contact Us ... About Us Resources Global Warming What's Eating Your Worms? Earth Healing with Bamboo Key Concepts Permanent Agriculture Criteria for Sustainability Relocalization of Society Latest News Xylemorphing-Open Sunpit Bioshelter Earth Healing with Bamboo Permaculture Is Process as Sustaining Relationships ... Life Is Process Popular Earth Healing with Bamboo DGI Mission/Name Courses 2010 Permaculture Design ... Permanent Agriculture Welcome to the Frontpage Sustainable Agriculture and Dancing Green Written by Dawn Shiner Wednesday, 10 June 2009 01:52 Permaculture Design Life Skills presentations, workshops, courses  Dancing Green, Inc. Integrative Facilitation a GaiaMARC degree pathway Degrees of Freedom GAIA UNIVERSITY Welcome to Sustainable Agriculture ~for the respectful integration of humans and agriculture~ Sustaining soil sustains culture.

39. Sustainet - Home Cooperates with projects and organisations in Africa, Latin America and Asia that focus on sustainable agriculture and their wide-scale application. http://www.sustainet.org/

Sustainable Agriculture Information Network Deutsch English Home Projekt Grundlagen Ergebnisse Infothek ... Kontakt Sustainet – Ein Kooperationsvorhaben zur Welthungerbekämpfung durch nachhaltige Landwirtschaft Die Zahl der hungernden Menschen wird derzeit auf 850 Millionen geschätzt. Weltweit gesammelte Erfahrungen zeigen, dass die nachhaltige Landwirtschaft einen signifikanten Beitrag zur Hungerbekämpfung in der Welt leisten kann. Besonders für Kleinbauern in den Ländern des Südens stellt sie eine realistische Möglichkeit zur Ertragssteigerung dar. Doch trotz ihres hohen Potenzials konnten sich oft auch erfolgreiche Modelle der nachhaltigen Landwirtschaft bisher nicht großflächig verbreiten. Der Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung hat das Problem aufgegriffen und im Rahmen des Aktionsprogramms der Bundesregierung das Kooperationsvorhaben Sustainet - Sustainable Agriculture Information Network initiiert. Finanziert vom Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) und unterstützt vom Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV)

40. Substainable Agriculture-Sci Tracer Bullet-Lib Of Congress Sustainable Agriculture Science Tracer Bullets - Research Finding Aids from the Library of Congress, Science Reference Services. http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/sustainable-agtb.html

The Library of Congress Researchers Home Tracer Bullets Find in Science Tracer Bullets Science Reference Pages Researchers Web Pages All Library of Congress Pages Close-up of tomatoes at a food market. From the USDA Web site at http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/94cs3821.htm Sustainable Agriculture Tracer Bullet 03-2 Scope Introductions to the Topic Subject Headings Basic Texts ... Selected Internet Resources SCOPE TOP OF PAGE INTRODUCTIONS TO THE TOPIC Altieri, Miguel. Sustainable agriculture. In Encyclopedia of agricultural science , v. 4. Charles J. Arntzen and Ellen M. Ritter, eds. San Diego, Academic Press, c1994. p. 239-247. Gardner, John C., Keith Jamtgaard, and Frederick Kirschemann. What is sustainable agriculture? In Planting the future . Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1995. p. 45-65. Klinkenborg, Verlyn. A farming revolution: sustainable agriculture. National geographic , v. 188, Dec. 1995: 60-88.

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