Topic guides

Sustainable agriculture

These databases provide information on the economic, environmental, and social aspects of sustainable agriculture: agriculture that is capable of maintaining its productivity and usefulness to society indefinitely.

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Try searching these terms as descriptors in these databases. (Not all databases allow subject or descriptor searching, but when it is possible, you will get a more refined list of results.)

• Agricultural ecology
• Agricultural land
• Agrobiodiversity
• Agroecology
• Agroforestry
• Alternative agriculture
• Alternative farming
• Animal ecology
• Best management practices (bmps)
• Biodiversity
• Biointensive gardening
• Biological control
• Biological control agents
• Biological indicators
• Biologically integrated farming systems
• Carbon sequestration
• Carrying capacity
• Community supported agriculture (csa)
• Conservation
• Conservation buffers
• Conservation tillage
• Controlled grazing
• Dendroecology
• Eco-agriculture
• Ecological farming
• Ecosystems
• Environmental indicators
• Externalities
• Externalities (economic)
• Farmland preservation
• Food chains
• Food cooperatives
• Food webs
• Foodways {food symbolism and traditions}
• Good agricultural practices (gap)
• Grassland management
• Grasslands
• Grazing intensity
• Grazing systems
• Humus
• Integrated pest management
• Land use and sustainability
• Life cycle and (environmental assessment or environmental impact)
• Life cycle assessment
• Low input agriculture
• Market gardens
• Microenvironments
• Natural foods
• Natural grasslands
• Nutrient balance
• Nutrient content
• Nutrient management
• Organic farming
• Organic fertilizers
• Organic foods
• Organic production
• Pastures
• Permaculture
• Permanent grasslands
• Plant communities
• Plant ecology
• Precision agriculture
• Precision farming
• Resource management
• Restoration ecology
• Rotational grazing
• Soil
• Soil air
• Soil bacteria
• Soil biology
• Soil organic matter
• Suburban agriculture
• Sustainability
• Sustainable agriculture
• Sustainable development
• Sustainable tourism
• Urban agriculture
• Weed control