Farming that can keep farming: meeting present food needs without spending down the soil, water, diversity and climate the next harvest depends on. The idea gathers older practices, rotation, cover crops, agroforestry, integrated pest management, under one modern banner, and its tension with maximum present yield is the central argument of contemporary agriculture. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin YearNo single coiner is attested. Wes Jackson's New Roots for Agriculture (1980) is among the earliest prominent uses of the phrase in print; the term spread through US policy and research circles across the 1980s. Classification
Concept ClassAgricultural Transformation, Technology and Extension 1 Connections
Associated With
Agroecology, Disciplines Agroecology supplies much of sustainable agriculture's scientific basis.
Source Sustainable Agriculture (Wikipedia)
INRAE, Institutions INRAE, formed in 2020 by merging France's national agronomic research institute with its environmental and agricultural engineering research institute, states the sustainable transition of agriculture and food systems as a central strategic mission.
A named movement within the broader sustainable-agriculture family of goals
Source Organic Farming (Wikipedia)
Permaculture, Practices Permaculture's three stated ethics (earth care, people care, fair share) are a sustainability program
Source Permaculture (Wikipedia)
American farmer and writer whose essays are a foundational voice for sustainable agriculture.
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Monoculture, Concepts Sustainable agriculture literature standardly argues against large-scale monoculture's soil, water and biodiversity costs.
Source Sustainable Agriculture (Wikipedia)
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Farming that can keep farming: meeting present food needs without spending down the soil, water, diversity and climate the next harvest depends on.
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