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Sustainable Agriculture
Also Known As Sustainable farming
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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. 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.
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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. Cross-Tradition Connections
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Agroecology, Disciplines Agroecology supplies much of sustainable agriculture's scientific basis.
A named movement within the broader sustainable-agriculture family of goals
Permaculture, Practices Permaculture's three stated ethics (earth care, people care, fair share) are a sustainability program
Critiqued Here
Monoculture, Concepts Sustainable agriculture literature standardly argues against large-scale monoculture's soil, water and biodiversity costs.
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