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announcing ag. assessment document
Dear Saneters:
A 49-page document on assessment methods in agriculture is available as an
Adobe Acrobat file at the URL cited below. The document has chapters on
crop-specific, field-level, and whole farm assessment methods, as well as
environmental impact assessment for pesticides, implementation of
assessment tools in certification and labeling programs, and applications
in forestry. I thank my coauthor Luanne Lohr, Dept. of Agricultural &
Applied Economics, Univ. of Georgia, for her contributions to the text, for
making the document available on the web, and for editing and organizing
the material.
Given below are: the full citation, web access information, abstract,
request for corrections, updates, and new listings, and hard copy
availability info.
CITATION:
SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT IN AGRICULTURE:
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCE LIST OF METHODS
John VICKERY(a) and Luanne LOHR(b)
Faculty Series 97-05, July 1997
49 pages; Adobe Acrobat PDF 174K bytes
a) b)
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy University of Georgia
2105 First Avenue S. Dept. of Agricultural &
Applied Economics
Minneapolis, MN 55404 301 Conner Hall
Athens, GA 30602
jvickery@iapt.org llohr@agecon.uga.edu
WEB ACCESS INFORMATION:
Retrieve the FULL TEXT in Adobe Acrobat format at
http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/uga/fs9705.pdf
The URL for the Research in Agricultural Economics homepage from which you
can access other faculty papers from many universities is:
http://agecon.lib.umn.edu
ABSTRACT:
Sustainability assessment is fundamental to improving the long-term
viability of agricultural systems. A variety of assessment tools have been
developed for the practitioner to evaluate sustainability at multiple
levels, from field to farm. This report is a compilation of annotated
references on assessment methods from published and unpublished sources.
Each section contains a methodological description, a list of published
sources, and a list of relevant programs and contacts. While not
exhaustive, the report presents a range of tools and applications that are
currently in use
or are in testing for future use.
REQUEST FOR CORRECTIONS, UPDATES, AND NEW LISTINGS
The document represents an ongoing project. It is frequently updated.
Readers are encouraged to submit comments, citations for unlisted or new
documents or projects, and corrections or updated information for currently
listed items. The most current, but unedited version, is available as an
Email attachment (Word, 189KB) from John Vickery. The table of contents
can be sent separately as a Word or text file. This version includes some
citations for nonagricultural applications such as golf courses and
institutional and corporate lands.
The marketing section (use of assessment methods as criteria to certify
envirodifferentiated products) is very short and will receive little
additional updating. It will be subsumed by another document that will be
available at a later date. For this new document, we are compiling
information on labeling programs and projects. If you have information on
a labeling initiative or would like more information on IATP's interests
and efforts on the use of environmental, social, and local/regional
criteria for the differentiation of agricultural products, please contact
Bill Vorley, Director, Environment & Agriculture, Institute for Agriculture
and Trade Policy at bvorley@iatp.org.
HARD COPY
We encourage readers to avail of the electronic versions, but hard copies
are available
by sending a written request via Email or regular mail to:
Dr. Luanne Lohr
Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
llohr@agecon.uga.edu
Thank you.
Cordially,
John Vickery
John Vickery, Program Associate
Environment & Agriculture
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy
2105 1st Ave., S.
Minneapolis, MN 55404-2505
612-870-3430; FAX -4846
jvickery@iatp.org
http://www.iatp.org/iatp