The study of the ethical considerations involved in sustainable agriculture, including fair labor practices, community engagement, and animal welfare.
Environmental Impact: Understanding the environmental costs and benefits of sustainable agriculture practices.
Animal Welfare: Understanding the ethical considerations around animal welfare in sustainable agriculture practices.
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs): Understanding the ethical considerations around the use of GMOs in sustainable agriculture practices.
Soil Health: Understanding the ethics around sustainable soil management practices including crop rotation, cover cropping, and sustainable farm management.
Water Use: Understanding the equitable and ethical concerns around water usage in sustainable agriculture practices.
Food Waste: Understanding the ethical concerns around food waste and how sustainable agriculture practices can help reduce it.
Pesticide Use: Understanding the ethical considerations around pesticide use in sustainable agricultural practices and alternatives to conventional pesticides.
Labor and Social Justice: Understanding the social and ethical considerations around fair labor practices and social justice in sustainable agriculture practices.
Food Access: Understanding the ethical considerations around food access and availability in sustainable agriculture practices.
Community Involvement: Understanding the ethical considerations around the involvement of local communities in sustainable agriculture practices.
Environmental sustainability: Sustainable agriculture aims to provide food and other agricultural products while conserving natural resources, improving the quality of the soil, air, and water, and minimizing environmental degradation.
Animal welfare: Many sustainable agriculture practices emphasize humane treatment of animals, providing ample space for animals to move, and avoiding the use of hormones and antibiotics.
Social justice: Sustainable agriculture aims to promote social justice by ensuring that farmers and workers are treated fairly, that consumers have access to healthy, sustainably produced food, and that vulnerable communities are not disadvantaged by environmental degradation or other agricultural practices.
Economic viability: Sustainable agriculture aims to promote the economic viability of small-scale farmers and other stakeholders by providing access to fair prices, stable markets, and supportive policies.
Cultural preservation: Sustainable agriculture seeks to preserve traditional agricultural practices and knowledge, promote local food systems and healthy food cultures, and foster a sense of community through shared agricultural practices and traditions.
Carbon capture: Sustainable agriculture also includes practices that can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as planting cover crops, reducing tillage, and restoring perennial vegetation.