"Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current or future generations to meet their needs."
Focuses on the development of environmentally sound agricultural practices that promote resource conservation and biodiversity.
Agroecology: This is the study of the relationship between agricultural ecosystems and their environments.
Soil health: This involves maintaining soil health by using sustainable practices such as crop rotation and cover crops to prevent soil erosion and preserve nutrients.
Conservation agriculture: This is a farming system that focuses on conserving soil, water, and biodiversity while producing high yields of crops.
Sustainable crop management: This includes practices such as crop rotation, intercropping, and integrated pest management to maintain healthy crops without the use of synthetic chemicals.
Organic farming: This is a method of farming that uses only natural inputs and avoids the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers.
Livestock management: This involves using sustainable practices to manage livestock, such as rotational grazing and avoiding overgrazing.
Energy efficiency in agriculture: This involves using renewable energy sources and improving the energy efficiency of agricultural systems.
Water management: This involves using sustainable practices to manage water resources and maintain healthy aquatic ecosystems.
Sustainable forestry: This involves using sustainable practices to manage forests and maintain healthy forest ecosystems.
Food security: This involves ensuring that everyone has access to sufficient and nutritious food.
Rural development: This involves creating sustainable and resilient rural communities through economic development and improved infrastructure.
Agricultural policy: This involves creating policies that support sustainable agriculture and promote environmental stewardship.
Climate change adaptation: This involves preparing agricultural systems for the effects of climate change and developing strategies to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases caused by agriculture.
Agribusiness entrepreneurship: This involves developing sustainable businesses that support rural communities and promote sustainable agriculture.
Agricultural finance: This involves managing financial resources to support sustainable agriculture and rural development.
Permaculture: A design system that integrates ecological principles with a human system to create a sustainable and resilient ecosystem.
Agroforestry: A land use management system that combines trees or shrubs with crops and/or livestock in a mutually beneficial way.
Organic farming: An agricultural method that avoids the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and genetically modified organisms.
Biodynamic farming: A holistic agricultural method that views the farm as a living organism and uses preparations made from plants, animal manure, and minerals to enhance the soil.
No-till farming: An agricultural method that minimizes soil disturbance, which reduces erosion and improves soil health.
Conservation agriculture: An approach that involves minimal soil disturbance, crop rotation, and crop residue management to enhance soil health and reduce erosion.
Integrated pest management (IPM): A method that uses a combination of biological, mechanical, and chemical controls to manage pests and diseases.
Regenerative agriculture: A holistic approach that aims to regenerate degraded soils and ecosystems by promoting biodiversity, enhancing ecosystem services, and reducing the use of synthetic inputs.
Holistic management: A framework that applies holistic thinking to land management and seeks to balance environmental, social, and economic objectives.
Urban agriculture: The practice of growing food in urban areas using a variety of methods, such as container gardening, community gardens, and rooftop gardens.
"Developing sustainable food systems contributes to the sustainability of the human population."
"Agriculture has an enormous environmental footprint, playing a significant role in causing climate change, water scarcity, water pollution, land degradation, deforestation and other processes."
"Food systems are responsible for one third of the anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions."
"Sustainable agriculture consists of environment friendly methods of farming that allow the production of crops or livestock without damage to human or natural systems."
"Elements of sustainable agriculture can include permaculture, agroforestry, mixed farming, multiple cropping, and crop rotation."
"Besides sustainable farming practices, dietary shifts to sustainable diets are an intertwined way to substantially reduce environmental impacts."
"Numerous sustainability standards and certification systems exist, including organic certification, Rainforest Alliance, Fair Trade, UTZ Certified, GlobalGAP, Bird Friendly, and the Common Code for the Coffee Community (4C)."
"Agriculture plays a significant role in water scarcity and water pollution."
"Agriculture plays a significant role in land degradation."
"Sustainable agriculture provides a potential solution to enable agricultural systems to feed a growing population within the changing environmental conditions."
"It can be based on an understanding of ecosystem services."
"It involves preventing adverse effects to soil, water, biodiversity, surrounding or downstream resources."
"It is simultaneously causing environmental changes and being impacted by these changes."
"When developing agriculture within sustainable food systems, it is important to develop flexible business process and farming practices."
"Agriculture has an enormous environmental footprint."
"Sustainable agriculture consists of environment friendly methods of farming that allow the production of crops or livestock without damage to human or natural systems, thereby preventing deforestation."
"There are many methods to increase the sustainability of agriculture."
"Sustainable agriculture involves preventing adverse effects...to those working or living on the farm or in neighboring areas."
"Sustainable agriculture consists of environment friendly methods of farming that allow the production of crops or livestock without damage to...biodiversity."