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22. OECD Observer: Farming Systems For Sustainable Agriculture Other farming practices and systems are acting to reduce risks of flooding and providewildlife habitat and landscape amenity benefits. The challenge is clear. http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/508/Farming_systems_for_susta

June 6, 2004 All Articles HOME Front page Leaders Databank News ... Back issues SECTIONS Economy - General - Business Society ... - Energy HOT TOPICS 2004 Environment Spotlight 2004 Education Spotlight Ageing Biotechnology ... 2003 Employment Ministerial Spotlight COUNTRIES OECD - All countries - Australia - Czech Republic ... World Back issues Recent articles Browse articles by date SUBSCRIBE About us ... Links index Farming systems for sustainable agriculture By Wilfrid Legg and Gérard Viatte Directorate for Agriculture Published on: July 13, 2001 Agriculture is in the spotlight. Almost every day there are reports in the press concerning food-related health and environment scares. Outbreaks of foot and mouth disease are the latest crisis in Europe, quickly following “mad cow” disease and protests over the alleged impact of genetically modified crops on food safety and the environment. Everywhere farmers are criticised for causing damage to the environment: letting their pesticides and livestock waste spill into the environment and their fertilisers run off into streams and groundwater; causing obnoxious odours; harming the welfare of animals; removing ancient stone walls and hedges; and allowing their soils to erode and destroying wildlife habitats. Farmers retort that they are the “stewards of the countryside”, providing landscapes and green spaces that benefit urban dwellers and tourists, and controlling the flow of water to avoid floods and droughts. It is clearly not in farmers’ interest to destroy the resources on which their livelihoods depend, but they face a dilemma. On the one hand consumers demand cheap all-year-round food of consistent quality, while at the same time calling for food produced in environmentally and animal friendly ways, which can be more costly.

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CURRENT ONGOING PROJECTS Project 2 Project Title: The Center for Environmental Farming Systems Agency: Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Ongoing Effort Project Description: Conservation Tillage—Conservation tillage, or “no-till” farming, has become increasingly popular as a way to reduce soil erosion, increase organic matter, and enhance soil physical properties. A long-term experiment, begun in 1996, includes many major crops in the rotation (corn, soybeans, cotton, peanuts, and wheat). Scientists are monitoring yield and economics, soil quality, nutrients and pesticides in ground water and runoff, and the effect on wildlife. Integrated Farming Systems—Long-term cropping systems that integrate the broad range of factors involved in agricultural systems are the focus of this unit. The USDA has funded the establishment of the start-up phase of a comprehensive long-term, large-scale experiment. Data collection and analyses will cover: comprehensive soil and water quality, pests and predators (weeds, insects, and disease), crop factors (viability, on/off farm impact, community) and energy issues. Systems to be compared include a successional ecosystem, plantation forestry/wood lot, integrated crop/animal production system, organic production system, and a cash-grain cropping system. Special attention will be paid to how most effectively and economically the transition can be made to these alternative systems.

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Search for: Current Category Everything What's new Top Searches Statistics Science News ... Home Current location: Agriculture Practices and Systems > Dryland Farming Agrodiversity as a means of sustaining small scale dryland farming systems in Tanzania. Describes the benefits of using diverse and sustainable farming methods in the region (PDF f http://www.unu.edu/africa/papers/agrodiv-tanzania.pdf detailed information Rating: [5.00] Votes: [1170] Direct seeding - the natural solution for revegetating arid lands Describing the advantages and use of direct seeding for revegetating arid lands. http://www.eden-foundation.org/project/aridland.html detailed information Rating: [5.00] Votes: [645] Dryland Agricultural Institute Includes research, staff, programs, and contact information. http://www.wtamu.edu/research/dryland/ detailed information Rating: [5.00] Votes: [2431] Dryland Farming in Palestine Online book describing the crops, practices and history of cultivation in the area, with statistics. http://www.arij.org/pub/dryland/

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What is Sustainable Agriculture? Publications on Sustainable Agriculture Searchable Sites and Databases Organizations and People Educational Resources and Institutions Related Systems and Practices Event Calendars Help About this service This is an official Agriculture Network Information Center Web Site. What is Sustainable Agriculture? Some terms defy definition. "Sustainable agriculture" has become one of them. In such a quickly changing world, can anything be sustainable? What do we want to sustain? How can we implement such a nebulous goal? Is it too late? With the contradictions and questions have come a hard look at our present food production system and thoughtful evaluations of its future. If nothing else, the term "sustainable agriculture" has provided "talking points," a sense of direction, and an urgency, that has sparked much excitement and innovative thinking in the agricultural world. The word "sustain," from the Latin sustinere (sus-, from below and tenere, to hold), to keep in existence or maintain, implies long-term support or permanence. As it pertains to agriculture, sustainable describes farming systems that are "capable of maintaining their productivity and usefulness to society indefinitely. Such systems... must be resource-conserving, socially supportive, commercially competitive, and environmentally sound." [John Ikerd, as quoted by Richard Duesterhaus in "Sustainability's Promise," Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Jan.-Feb. 1990) 45(1): p.4. NAL Call # 56.8 J822]

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32. Science, Agriculture, Practices And Systems: Reduced Tillage Farming Nitrate in Water Resources with Modern farming systems Account of research showinglower rates of nitrate leaching from soil with reduced tilling practices. http://www.combose.com/Science/Agriculture/Practices_and_Systems/Reduced_Tillage

Top Science Agriculture Practices and Systems ... Alberta Reduced Tillage Linkages - Sustainable cropping and direct seeding information, for Alberta. Site is sponsored by agribusiness companies. NoTill.com - Brief information and a collection of links about the practice. No-Till Farmer Newsletter Online - Providing the world's no-tillage farmers with ideas, inventions, techniques and industry news. No-Tillage Farming for Sustainable Land Management - Detailed FAO account of how soil erosion and other problems have been alleviated in Brazil. Reducing Nitrate in Water Resources with Modern Farming Systems - Account of research showing lower rates of nitrate leaching from soil with reduced tilling practices. Rolf Derpsch - Information about reduced tillage and no tillage practices, links to publications. Steep III - Information on conservation tillage practices in the Pacific Northwest. This name includes a group of practices that are also known as, or include, the following; conservation tillage; no-till farming; high-residue farming. It is based on minimal or no cultivation, and sowing directly into the ground after the removal of the previous crop. It often involves increased use of herbicides to control weed growth. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.

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Science Directory - Products and Services Home Search Add a Site Modify a Site ... Links SEARCH ADVANCED SEARCH RANDOM LINK Find this: CUSTOM LINKS Yoursite Another Area Somewhere else Home ... Precision Farming : Products and Services Ag Leader Technology - This site showcases dedicated precision agriculture products. Agri-Tech Solutions - A dealer of Trimble, Ag Leader, Star Pal, and Ranger GPS products. Agri-Vision - Provides color digital infrared imagery that is georeferenced and delivered within 24 hours via a secure web site. AGRONAV - Precision systems for autonomous vehicle steering and implement control for farming applications. Bio-Geo-Recon - Remote sensing services for the agriculture, forestry, and environmental communities. John Deere - Ag Management Solutions Work made easy with precision farming by John Deere - John Deere provides various precision agriculture equipment and services. This site contains product information, tools, manuals, and troubleshooting tips. Merrell Precision Agriculture - An online store that sells GPS receivers, controllers, yield monitors, software, handheld computers, and other products and services. Nielsen Communications - Provides electronic technology and precision agricultural products to farmers, and agri-business companies in the midwest.

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Science Directory - Education Home Search Add a Site Modify a Site ... Links SEARCH ADVANCED SEARCH RANDOM LINK Find this: CUSTOM LINKS Yoursite Another Area Somewhere else Home ... Precision Farming : Education K-State Agricultural Research Center - Notes on work on precision farming, site and boundary verification, soil sampling, variable rate applications, yield monitoring, and electrical conductivity studies. K-State Precision Agriculture - The purpose of this web site is to display the Research and Education precision agriculture activities that are occurring at Kansas State University. Koen Maertens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuve - Home page of agriculture engineering researcher. Includes overview of his recent publications in precision farming, yield mapping and related modeling, and automation of agricultural machinery. Laboratory for Agro Machinery and Processing - Thorough introduction to precision farming, including current research and applications. Missouri Precision Agriculture Center - University of Missouri research, teaching, and outreach efforts in site-specific crop management. Site includes, a newsletter, directory of Missouri businesses providing precision agriculture services, publications, current research, and related information. New Zealand Centre for Precision Agriculture - NZCPA is a precision agricultural department within Massey University. Provides commercial mapping services and undergraduate and postgraduate research and teaching opportunities.

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37. Resources For Life Centered Agriculture: YES! A Journal Of Positive Futures of lowcost, resource- conserving, and environmentally sound farming systems. theloss of productive farmland and to promote sustainable farming practices. http://www.futurenet.org/14foodforlife/resourcesforagriculture.html

home subscribe discussion guides events and links ... about us Food for Life ~ Summer 2000 Resources for life-centered agriculture Table of Contents Resource Guide Index Organizations, ideas, books, and Web sites on life sustaining gardening, agriculture, and food advocacy groups Ecology Action Ecology Action researches and educates about bio-intensive gardening. Publishes How to Grow More Vegetables, by John Jeavons, Ten Speed Press, 1995. Contact: 5798 Ridgewood Rd., Willits, CA 95490 tel: 707/459-0150 fax: 707/459-5409 web: www.growbiointensive.org GRACE Factory Farm Project GRACE helps communities keep out factory farms or close existing ones down. Grace also provides news, testimony, and guest speakers on related issues. Contact: 15 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010 tel: 212/726-9161 web: www.factoryfarm.org Henry A. Wallace Center for Agricultural and Environmental Policy at Winrock International A research and education organization established to encourage and facilitate the adoption of low-cost, resource- conserving, and environmentally sound farming systems.

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Organic apples win productivity and taste trials August 10, 2001 A study in the journal Nature counters arguments that organic farming systems are less efficient and produce lower yields than conventional farming systems. Conducted by researchers at Washington State University from 1994 to 1999, the study compared organic, integrated and conventional apple orchards and found that while all three systems gave similar apple yields, the organic system had the greatest environmental sustainability, profitability and energy efficiency. In the study, the organic system did not use synthetic pesticides or fertilizers and relied on compost, mulch, pheromone-mating disruption (PMD), Bacillus thuringiensis and thinning fruit by hand. By contrast, the conventional system used synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, PMD and chemical fruit thinner; the integrated farming system used compost, synthetic fertilizers, mulch and herbicides. Cumulative yields were comparable and there were no observable differences in physiological disorders or pest and disease damage across the three apple production systems. However, the study found that the organic apple system had the highest soil quality, profitability, energy efficiency and taste appeal. The organic apple system also had the least adverse environmental impact. Although sustainability is a difficult concept to measure, the researchers included both ecological and economic factors in their analysis. They noted that to be sustainable a farm must produce adequate high-quality yields, be profitable, protect the environment, conserve resources and be socially responsible in the long term. Specifically, the indicators of sustainability used in the study were soil quality, horticultural performance, orchard profitability, environmental quality and energy efficiency.

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ALTERING INDIGENOUS FARMING PRACTICES IN NORTH WESTERN HIMALAYAS G.S. Singh and K.S. Rao* N-289, Sector-8, R.K. Puram, New Delhi 110022 *G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, Kosi-Katarmal, Almora 263643 Contents Next Agrobiodiversity is the most potential option for sustainability of the agriculture production system (Swift et al., 1994). Since millennia, ancient agriculture practices have, by and large, made significant contribution in maintaining the high genetic resources involving the locally available plant and animal resources. However, modern farming application as the consequence of ‘Green Revolution’ has resulted the farmer’s dependency on market oriented resources leading to genetic erosion. This study analysed the pivotal factors which are responsible for maintaining the hill farming diversity and also discussed the possible reasons faltering such practices in relation to current environmental milieu in western Himalaya. Traditional agrobiodiversity practices As many as seventeen crops are being cultivated (Singh et al.

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