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 help understanding what sustainable agriculture is.

General Agriculture

Farming and natural resources

  • Water · Aquaculture · Aquaponics · Aqueduct · Aquifer · Hydrology · Brackish water · Lake · Reservoir · Dam · River · Estuary · Drainage basin
  • Land · Soil · Soil life · Soil salination · Soil science · Terra preta
  • Energy · Biogas · Biomass
  • Air · Climate · Climate change · Global climate change · Climate model · Microclimate · Arctic climate · Subarctic climate · Temperate climate · Climate of the Alps · Wind · 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, Cereal
  • Biodiversity · Species · Artificial selection · Ecological selection · Kin selection · Natural selection · Trophic level · allelopathy · commensalism · compensating factor · genetic erosion · protocooperation · heterosis · xerophyte · niche diversity · Halotolerance

Agricultural practices

Detroit development

  • Planning · Regional planning · Zoning · Green Belt · hima · Rural community development · rural sustainability · landscape ecology · Land Utilization Type · Land use

Food and food transformation

Economic, social and political context

  • Ecological Economics
  • 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 · Ecology movement ·
  • land ethic
  • Theoretical ecology · Ecological · Ecological niche · Ecological selection

Individuals

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
  • Urban economics
  • List of ecology topics
  • List of environment topics
  • List of ethics topics
  • List of economics topics
  • List of organic gardening and farming topics
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