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Re: permaculture vs. sustainable ag
> Can anyone tell me the difference between permaculture and sustainable
> agriculture. Thanks, Jack
The following two links address this question pretty well:
Towards a Sustainable Agriculture
http://www.ru.org/artagri.html
Introduction to Permaculture: Concepts and Resources
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/perma.html
More summaries can be found in the following collection
of "introduction to sustainable ag" web links at:
http://www.attra.org/rel.html
What is Sustainable Agriculture?
Exploring Sustainability in Agriculture
Defining and Implementing Sustainable Agriculture
Towards a Sustainable Agriculture
Future Horizons: Recent Literature in Sustainable Agriculture
Tracing the Evolution of Organic/Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture: Definitions and Terms
An Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture
Essentially, they are similar in that they are based on goals and
philosophy and not a particular set of production practices per se.
Certainly the two intermix and intermingle back and forth all day
long. But conceptually and how they are approached in
practice, I would say they are quite distinct.
One diagram I like very much, can be found at the Ecological
Agriculture Projects website in the article from the list above,
"An Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture."
http://eap.mcgill.ca/Publications/EAP16.htm
This diagram characterizes School of Thought in Agriculture
on a scale of permanence from Low Sustainability to High
Sustainability.
Steve Diver
steved@attra.org
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