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Sustainable agriculture on the web
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Title: Sustainable agriculture on the web
WWW Sources of Sustainable Agriculture Information
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Inclusion on this list does not imply endorsement of content.
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- Center for Sustainable
Agricultural Systems, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Site includes
Integrated Farm Information Sheets on topics including:- Relay and
Double Cropping Soybean/wheat Production Systems; Contour Strip
Intercropping; To Graze or Not to Graze?; Composting Livestock Wastes
on the Integrated Farm and Cover Crops.
- Sustainable Agriculture
Research and Education Program, University of California-Davis.
Includes updates on Conferences, Workshops, and Courses relating
to Sustainable Agriculture.
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The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture is located at Iowa
State University and has three primary objectives:
- to identify and reduce negative impacts of agriculture on natural
resources and rural communities
- to develop profitable farming systems that conserve natural resources
- to work with ISU Extension and other groups to inform the public of
new research findings
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Canada's Green Plan Sustainable Agriculture Initiative and
Measuring Agri-environmental Sustainability with Indicators,
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
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SAGE Garden - Sustainable Agricultural Gardening Ecology at Clemson
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Sustainable Agriculture and Ecological Agriculture, Swedish
Agricultural University. This site maintains collections of relevant
e-mail messages and periodicals from ListServes grouped by subject.
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Green & Growing Environmental Education Project
From the Ground Up began as a teachers' lesson guide on food,
agriculture, and sustainable development. This on-line version is
divided into five lessons; The History of Agriculture and a Description
of Sustainable Development; Soil; Agriculture and Chemicals; The Real
Cost of Food; and Everything's Connected.
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Sustainable Agriculture and Integrated Pest Management
Chapter in 1996 North Carolina Peanut Production Guide prepared
by the Center for IPM, North Carolina State University.
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Sustainable Practices for Vegetable Production in the South by
Dr. Mary M. Peet, North Carolina State University. Although written for
the Southern United States, this on-line book gives a large amount of
general information on sustainable agriculture, e.g. soil management,
cover crops and living mulches, and conservation tillage.
- The Vetiver Network disseminating
information on the use of Vetiver grass (Vetivaria zizanioides, V.
nigratana, V. nemoralis) for soil and water conservation,
for embankment stabilization, and for pollution control.
- An organic farmers
homepage! with lots of links to useful information.
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Yahoo! - Science:Agriculture:Sustainable Agriculture Allows searches
restricted to the Sustainable Agriculture category of this WWW database.
It also lists useful WWW links.
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