Co-development Of Ecological Agriculture And Environmental Ethics the definitions and descriptions of alternative/ecological/sustainable agriculture,(alternative agriculture of value issues in agriculture in general. http://www.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/envjust/papers/allpapers/lindholm/home.htm
Extractions: Co-development of Ecological Agriculture and Environmental Ethics Solveig Lindholm, B.D., lecturer, PhD Student Dept. of Crop Production Science in co-operation with Dept. of Theology Division of Ecological Agriculture Division of Ethics Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences University of Uppsala P.O. Box 7043 Sweden S-750 07 Uppsala Sweden Phone +46-18 67 14 38, Fax +46-18 67 29 06, E-mail: Solveig Lindholm@vo.slu.se The predominant agricultural system may suitably be called industrial agriculture, since it is an integrated part of the industrial society governed by "techno-scientific" thinking. This system has in a number of well-known ways had a negative impact on the well-being of humans and animals as well as the natural environment as a whole. These effects can be seen as ethical issues, but it has been difficult to manifest this perspective, since the industrial system is closely connected to a positivist paradigm which bans ethical issues from its agenda. The ideal of this paradigm is objectivity and value neutrality to the point of depriving value issues of meaning.
BIOSPHERE - Flora - Fauna - Biodiversity - Soils - Agriculture agriculture general. Center - USDA · alternative Agricultural Research and CommercializationCorporation - USDA · alternative agriculture sites John http://www.usra.edu/esse/ford/ESS205/g300www/g300wwwbios.html
It's Worth Paying More : The Benefits Of Alternative Agriculture proactive role in addressing alternative farming research and LISA, Low Input SustainableAgriculture) states, The food safety and the environment in general. http://www.eap.mcgill.ca/MagRack/JPR/JPR_13.htm
Extractions: [http://eap.mcgill.ca/MagRack/JPR/jpr_head.htm] It's Worth Paying More: The Benefits of Alternative Agriculture By Gwen Bane Statement 'The exposure consumers receive from pesticide residues is tiny compared with the doses used in rodent studies.... These residues are usually hundreds of thousands times longer than the maximum tolerated doses used in rodent tests for carcinogenicity. " Response. Moving towards a more sustainable agriculture system, one that does not depend on inputs of synthetic chemicals, provides many different ecological, health, and social benefits. Supporting sustainable agriculture is a way for food consumers to increase the quality of life, not just a means of reducing cancer risks. Ed. The statue of the health and wealth of our rural communities, our far ms. , our farm workers, our consumers, our naturel resources, and our planes has spurred many farmers to seek alternatives to the conventional methods of food production. Inherent in this process of seeking alternatives is a call for change, not only in how we produce our food but how we perceive farming, the farm economy, and the farm community. In a nine year case study of alternative farming practices clone by the World Resources Institute, the Rodale Research Center, Purdue University, and the University of Nebraska, it was reported that organic farming rotations are superior to conventional, chemical intensive, corn and corn-soybean production. Alternative agricultural practices cut production costs by 25 percent, eliminated inorganic fertilizer and pesticide use, reduced soil erosion, and increased yields after the transition from conventional systems had been completed.2 "Well-managed alternative farming systems nearly always use less synthetic chemicals pesticides, fertilizers, and antibiotics .... Reduced use of these inputs lowers production costs and lessens agriculture's potential for adverse environmental and health affects...," according to an assessment by the National Research Council.3
Extractions: General These links from the Farmer's Guide to the Internet include the following categories: Hot Agricultural and Farming Sites General Agricultural Sites Market and Price Information Sites Agricultural Companies Online Agricultural Organizations Online Agricultural Magazines Online Alternative Agricultural Sites Farm Management and Marketing Sites Farm Bill Sites Forestry Information Other Farmers Online General Newsgroup Information Rural and Farming Mailing Lists
CommunityFood.com Resources - Sustainable Agriculture/General whole range of issues alternative agriculture, energy policy a sustainable food andagriculture system that only voluntary membership general farm organization http://www.communityfood.com/dir-cache/Sustainable_Agriculture/General/more3.htm
Farm Books: Agriculture, General/Rural Living Used Farming Books Agricultural, general/Rural Living. in Farm, Land and Food Policies,agriculture Project, Conference on alternative State and http://www.users.mis.net/~gwill/fb-aggen.htm
Extractions: Agriculture Yearbook, 1924 , USDA, 1252 pages. Special articles on highways and transportation, farm credit, hay, poultry, weather and agriculture, plus a large section on agricultural statistics. (7) $20.00. Another Revolution in U.S. Farming , by Lyle P. Schertz and Others, USDA, Agricultural Economic Report # 441, 1979, 445 pages, paperback. About how fewer and larger farms are dominating agriculture. (10) $10.00. Arator: Being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Political: In Sixty-Four Numbers , by John Taylor, 1977 edition of original 1818 edition, with introduction by M. E. Bradford, 394 pages, paperback. Classical literary essays on agriculture. (9) $10.00. Eat Your Heart Out , by Jim Hightower, Vintage Books, 1975, 356 pages, paperback. This book is about how food profiteers victimize the consumer. An enlightened view of food politics in the '70s. (5) $6.00. Economics: Applications to Agriculture and Agribusiness , by Roy, Corty, and Sullivan, The Interstate, 1971, 455 pages. Agricultural economics textbook. (10) $6.00. Empty Breadbasket?, The Cornucopia Project
Extractions: In a normal capitalistic system it would work this way. The farmer has two cows. He sells one cow and buys a bull.His herd multiplies, and his economy grows. The end picture is that he sell his herd and retires on the income. However, in light of the Enron Venture Capitalism Style , Farm Agriculture would work this way. The Texas Farmer has two cows. He sells three of them to his publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by his brother-in-law at the bank. Then he executes a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that he now gets all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company. The Cayman Island company is secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to the farmer's original listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. This is how a company
Small Farms & Alternative Agriculture lots of resources; Farming Alternatives Program at Internet information resourcesand agricultural experts as Access this website for general information on the http://www.cce.cornell.edu/clinton/ag/small-farms.html
Extractions: About Our Programs Ag Calendar Ag Staff Newsletters General Ag Information Contacts General Resources Public Education Ag Topics Production Business Management Environmental Protection Ag Development ... Small Farms Website - Cornell Alternative Farming Systems Information Center - USDA ATTRA - Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas - lots of resources Farming Alternatives Program at Cornell University Agriculture Network Information Center - The Center, part of USDA's National agricultural Library, includes directories of agriculture-related Internet information resources and agricultural experts as well as an on-line reference service. USDA National Commission on Small Farms - Access this website for general information on the commission as well as A Time to Act: A Report of the USDA National Commission on Small farms (January 1998). The Commission's report, which includes 8 policy goals and 146 recommendations, can be downloaded and printed. The Small Farm Resource - This organization disseminates information useful to people with small farms or rural property. Much of the information comes from small farmers.
Extractions: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: A POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE TO INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE John Ikerd University of Missouri Such forecasts may be right, but a lot of well-informed, educated people see a very different future a "post-industrial" future for agriculture and the U.S. economy in general. They see a future in which "thinking," not just by the intellectually-gifted, highly-educated, and highly-paid few, but by people in general is the key to success. The human mind will be the source of progress for individuals, families, farms, businesses, communities, and nations. "High-think" rather "high-tech" will be "buzz word" of the 21st century. A "post-industrial" paradigm for agriculture implies a future very different from the typical "high-tech" vision of continued agricultural industrialization. The "high-tech" future of agriculture assumes that trends of the past one-hundred years will continue. The biological and electronic tools are different but the objectives are still the same: to specialize, mechanize, separate, sequence, and control all processes of production to make farms work like factories and fields and feed lots run like assembly lines. There were logical economic and social motives for industrializing U.S. agriculture during the twentieth century. And there are reasons to think the industrialization of agriculture might continue. But, there are also logical reasons to question further industrialization and to believe that the future will be very different from the past. An alternative paradigm for U.S. agriculture, a new paradigm arising under the conceptual umbrella of sustainable agriculture, represents a logical, realistic, positive alternative to industrial agriculture.
Alternative Agriculture am 800 am - Overview of alternative agriculture Jerome Koneski also has extensiveexperience in general and production agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. http://www.saskherbspice.org/AlternativeAgriculturebrochure.htm
Extractions: Agenda January 15 7:00 a.m. 9 a.m. Registration - Room One Joint Sessions - Room One 7:15 a.m. - 7:30 a.m. - Welcome - opening 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. - Overview of alternative agriculture Jerome Koneski, Biioriginal Food And Science Corp 8:00 a.m. - 8:25 a.m. - Herb, spice and natural health products - Connie Kehler, SHSA 8:25 a.m. - 8:40 a.m. - Organic Arnold Taylor, SK Organic Directorate 8:40 a.m. - 8:55 a.m. - Emu Jim Shirley, Canada Emu 8:55 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. - Wild rice Bill Plunz , Chair, Wild Rice Council 9:10 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. - Non timber forest products Gerry Ivanochko , Saskatchewan Agriculture, Food
Extractions: Alternative Agriculture: A History from the Black Death to the Present Day. By Joan Thirsk. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 355. $47.50.) Thirsk insists that the factors leading to the crises of slumping demand and overproduction have differed considerably in the four periods she surveys. The Black Death and the pestilences that followed it over the next century and a half caused the first of the crises that she identifies: slumping demand. The last, that of the 1970s, came about, in part, from the successes of modern technological farming: overproduction. However different the causes, the reactions and consequences were analogous, and sometimes uncannily so. Even the same crops, like rapeseed, show up in her four different phases of alternative agriculture. Certain ideologies, like vegetarianism (the late Middle Ages excepted), and faddish beliefs, like those in herbal medicine, are seen as routine accompaniments to the emergence of alternative agriculture in the English context.
Title Ostrich Series-info Alternative Agriculture Series, Number insight into the needs of the birds and some general information about to supportthe research for and production of the alternative agriculture Series were http://netvet.wustl.edu/species/birds/ostrich.txt
AgNIC - Other Resources Agricultural Engineering. alternative agriculture. Animals. Beef. general References.Landscape Design and Maintenance. Nursery Production. Pest Management. TOP. Ohio http://www.msue.msu.edu/iac/agnic/lgrntlst/agnmain.html
Extractions: The links in this section are provided as a convenience to AgNIC users. The sites are primarily Land Grant University Extension Services and Agricultural Experiment Stations. The sites have not received in depth review and may, or may not meet AgNIC selection criteria. The sites are organized by subject and host state. Within each subject there may be several additional sub groups. You can view the list of subject groups and subgroups before making a selection. Click on the AgNIC logo to return to the AgNIC home page or use your browser's back button to return to the previous page. The data base that supports this listing is maintained by Michigan State University Extension. This version of the list was generated on 12/12/02
New Alternative Agriculture Center for nine nominees to the alternative Agricultural Research and by the Secretary ofAgriculture (Edward Madigan is to be responsible for general supervision and http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/NewCropsNews/92-2-1/aarc.html
Extractions: index for this volume New Crops News ... NewCROPS home page New Crops News, Spring 1992, vol. 2 no. 1 Subtitle G of Title XVI, Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization (AARC), is designed to help expedite industrial products from agricultural materials to the marketplace. It encompasses research, development, and other activities to advance new products or processes into the marketplace for non-feed, non-food, nontraditional forest or fiber products. Success would help diversify agricultural markets, foster rural economic development, provide environmentally friendly products, reduce imports, encourage private-public cooperation, and increase return on investment of taxpayer dollars. A new entity is to be created within USDA to administer the AARC subtitle. Regional Centers (no bricks and mortar) at host institutions will assist in implementing the programs on a regional basis after $5 million are appropriated. (At present only $4.5 million have been appropriated). The USDA has been soliciting recommendations for nine nominees to the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Board. The Board will be appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture (Edward Madigan) and is to be responsible for general supervision and policy control of AARC. For more information consult Mark Dungan, Office of the Secretary, room 200A, USDA, Washington DC 20250.
Extractions: We had 5 day Permaculture Design Course in Hasera Farm Phataleket, Kabhre, 40 km east of Kathmandu. It's at 1450m. altitude with a beautiful Himalayan view. Pictured are Thai and Nepali participants, Facilitators, and farm staff at Hasera Farm. Sun Rise Farm 1. Sun Rise Farm located in a suburb of Kathmandu, is one of 9 model farms in the Permaculture group and has three purposes: model farm, Sustainable Agriculture training and Resource center for information and local seeds. 2. This vegetable and herbs mix garden wasn't plow 6 years. In order to avoid weed, vegetables are planted close together. They use local resources as much as possible and don't bring materials from outside. Appropriate Agriculture Alternative 4. We discuss about organic product marketing. Neither Thailand nor Nepal have a national certification system. However, Thailand is preparing one and has already introduced "Northern region Organic Standard Certification Association". 5. There is liquid manure, mix cropping, a pond, a small green house and Agroforestry in a 1ha farm. They organise Sustainable Agriculture training and direct selling by farms and local women.
Mbox-17: Alternative Agriculture News, 1/97 1996, a bibliography, is available from alternative Farming Systems A committee of20 state attorneys general has written to agriculture Secretary Dan http://www.sare.org/sanet-mg/archives/html-home/17-html/0234.html
Mbox-46: Alternative Agriculture News July 2000 Wallace Institute for alternative agriculture) 9200 Edmonston Rd Ste 117 GreenbeltMD 207701551 E-mail wallacecenter@winrock.org (for general inquiries) Phone http://www.sare.org/sanet-mg/archives/html-home/46-html/0077.html
AGMA Diploma of agriculture general RUA 5 0198 Certificate III / IV in agriculture orCompleted Units of costs and benefits of alternative strategies alternative http://www.agmacollege.com/programs/diploma_agriculture.html
Extractions: Home Programs About AGMA Faculty ... International Programs Secure Online Enrolments SPECIAL PROMOTION Certificate I or II in Agriculture from $110.00 Visit Our FAST TRACK Programs Certificate I or II in Agriculture from $110.00 Rural Enterprise Management Program Veterinary Nursing Courses in April 2004 Discussion Group Diploma of Agriculture - General [RUA 5 0198] Description The Diploma Agriculture offers farming skills that will enhance the participants employment prospects in the Rural and allied industries, integrating into a Advanced Diploma in Agriculture. Credits are transferable to other Agricultural Courses. The outcome of training at this level will enable students to demonstrate understanding of a broad knowledge base incorporating theoretical concept. What do I need to apply?
Alternative Agriculture Links Cattle Breeds (Oklahoma State University). Chicken, general. SmallScale AgricultureAlternative - Poultry (USDA); Small Poultry Flocks (Texas A M University); http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/alternatives/alternativelinks.html
Extractions: Alternative Agricultural Enterprises The documents in this index contain information needed to help you make a decision about alternative agricultural enterprises structure and equipment requirements, capital investment, production system details, and management and marketing strategies. Documents were prepared by personnel from land grant universities, federal agencies, and private foundations. Search the documents alphabetically The Missouri Alternatives Center, http://agebb.missouri.edu/mac/ provided the original list of Web-based documents upon which this browsable index was built. We would like to thank Debi Kelly and the MAC for their contributions to this Web site. Be sure to visit the MAC Web site to get the latest information about alternative agricultural enterprises. A B C D ... W A Working Trees for Agriculture (USDA National Agroforestry Center) Working Trees for Communities (USDA National Agroforestry Center) Working Trees for Livestock (USDA National Agroforestry Center) Working Trees for Wildlife (USDA National Agroforestry Center)
OUP USA: Alternative Agriculture: Joan Thirsk alternative agriculture. A History From the Black Death to the Present Day. JoanThirsk. 0198208138, paper, 384 pages. Also In Stock hardback. Apr 2000 In Stock. http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/British/?ci=019820813
