Dear Eteri,
your question is depend on which region you want developing sustainable agriculture and have you time for that (high density of population, hunger and so on, quick social development and changing of surrounding etc.). At U.S. Department of Agriculture and connected departments you can find a very good summary of it. About sustainable agriculture take place a lot conferences and workshops worldwide also 2016. This is the best way to share experiences and you can compare the conditions, under which the developments grow.
Literature: Altieri, Miguel A. (1995) Agroecology: The science of sustainable agriculture. Westview Press, Boulder, CO.
Best wishes
Michael Lersow
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Dear Eteri,
your question is depend on which region you want developing sustainable agriculture and have you time for that (high density of population, hunger and so on, quick social development and changing of surrounding etc.). At U.S. Department of Agriculture and connected departments you can find a very good summary of it. About sustainable agriculture take place a lot conferences and workshops worldwide also 2016. This is the best way to share experiences and you can compare the conditions, under which the developments grow.
Literature: Altieri, Miguel A. (1995) Agroecology: The science of sustainable agriculture. Westview Press, Boulder, CO.
Best wishes
Michael Lersow
Dear Colleagues, thank you very much. These articles are very important for me.
Dear Eteri here are some great academic articles and book on that topic:
I hope it helps!
Allen, Patricia, and Hilary Melcarek. 2009. “Organic Agriculture and Food Security: Saving the Environment, Feeding the World?” in Organic Agriculture: The Ecological System. ed. Charles Francis, 235-252. American Society of Agronomy.
Carolan, Michael. 2013. Reclaiming Food Security, London and New York: Routledge.
Carolan, Michael. 2011. The Real Cost of Cheap Food. London: Earthscan.
Biel, Robert. 2014. Visioning a sustainable energy future: The case of urban food-growing. Theory, Culture & Society. 31 (5): 181-212.
De Schutter, Olivier. 2014. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter: Final report: The transformative potential of the right to food. New York: UN General Assembly.
De Schutter, Olivier. 2009. “The right to food: Fighting for adequate food in a global crisis.” Harvard Intrenational Review, 38(2): 38-42.
FAO, IFAD and WFP. 2015. The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015. Meeting the 2015 international hunger targets: taking stock of uneven progress. Rome: FAO.
Foley, Jonathan A., Navin Ramankutty, Kate A. Brauman, Emily S. Cassidy, James S. Gerber, Matt Johnston, Nathaniel D. Mueller et al. 2011. “Solutions for a cultivated planet”, Nature, 478: 337-342.
Freibauer, Annette, Erik Mathijs, Gianluca Brunori, Zoya Damianova, Elie Faroult, Joan Girona i Gomis, Lance OBrien, and Sébastien Treyer. 2011. “Sustainable food consumption and production in a resource-constrained world.” The 3rd SCAR (European Commission–Standing Committee on Agricultural Research) Foresight Exercise.
Garnett, Tara. 2013. “Food sustainability: problems, perspectives and solutions.” Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 72 (01): 29-39.
George, Susan. 2010. Whose Crisis, Whose Future? Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Godfray, H. Charles J., John R. Beddington, Ian R. Crute, Lawrence Haddad, David Lawrence, James F. Muir, Jules Pretty, Sherman Robinson, Sandy M. Thomas, and Camilla Toulmin. 2010. “Food security: The challenge of feeding 9 billion people.” Science 327: 812-818.
Lang, Tim, and David Barling. 2012. “Food security and food sustainability: reformulating the debate”. The Geographical Journal, 178(4): 313-326.
Lobao, Linda, and Curtis W. Stofferahn. 2008. “The community effects of industrialized farming: Social science research and challenges to corporate farming laws,” Agriculture and Human Values, 25(2): 219–40.
McMichael, Philip and Mindi Schneider .2011. “Food security politics and the Millenium Development Goals.” Third World Quarterly, 32(1): 119-139.
SAC. 2012. Power in Agriculture: A Vital Report on the Future of Farming. Oxford Farming Conference.
Shiva, Vandana. 2008. Soil not oil: climate change, peak oil and food insecurity. London: Zed Books.
Ziegler, Jean. 2011. Destruction massive: Géopolitique de la faim, Paris: Seuil.
White, Courtney. 2014. Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country, White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing.
A lot of writings on sustainability are more rhetorical than empirical and methodological. The meaning of sustainability, its indicators, methods of measurement and actual operation is a debatable issue and still needs investigation. Recently UN adopted Sustainable Development Goals are supplemented by a large number of criteria and indicators, many of which are not adequately defined for operation. Those related to agricultural sustainability fall in the same category, so there is room for methodological contribution in the area.
The attached two papers suggested and applied some concepts for measurement of agricultural sustainability. The concepts can be applied at any level from plot to sector level. There are other references in the papers
The third paper illustrates how to use community based indicators of sustainability.
Hope these are useful
Please see:
http://asi.ucdavis.edu/programs/sarep/about/what-is-sustainable-agriculture
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=625&menu=1515
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=30&menu=1515
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=889&menu=1515
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=2205&menu=1515
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=327&menu=124
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=316&menu=124
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=15&menu=1572
Dear Colleagues, thank you very much. I appreciate your suggestions.
ANYONE WHO CAN HELP ME WITH INFORMATION ON PLANT HEALTH CLINIC AND HOW COMMUNICATION CAN BE USED TO IMPROVE HOW INFORMATION FLOW FROM PLANT TO THE DOCTORS VIA THE PLANT DOCTORS
You can Read Our Book Published By Elseiver in 2015 Entitled "Sustainable Agricultural Development in Medetirranian Countries"
Editors Michel Bettei et al
Dear Eteri,
I suggest you this book:
Envisioning a Future without Food Waste and Food Poverty: Societal Challenges, http://www.ehu.eus/en/web/envisioningconference
Have nice day
Dear Eteri,
Find enclose my approach to developing countries. I hope it can helps. Any question do not hesitate to write,
http://www.eumed.net/rev/delos/19/sostenibilidad-agroforestal.html
Agrarian Research for Sustainable Development: International Study Cases. Publisher: Academic Press Publishing. University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca. Place: Cluj Napoca Year: 2014. ISBN: 978-973-744-364-9
Regards,
Beatriz Urbano
I would suggest that you download the following dissertation from the Wageningen University website. The dissertation deals exhaustively with issues of sustainability.
Tessema W.K. (2012) Marketing’s contribution to the sustainability of
pastoralism: Evidence from Ethiopia. Dissertation, Wageningen
University, the Netherlands. ISBN: 978-94-6173-314-6
I would suggest that you download the following dissertation from the Wageningen University website. The dissertation deals exhaustively with issues of sustainability.
Tessema W.K. (2012) Marketing’s contribution to the sustainability of
pastoralism: Evidence from Ethiopia. Dissertation, Wageningen
University, the Netherlands. ISBN: 978-94-6173-314-6
I would suggest that you download the following dissertation from the Wageningen University website. The dissertation deals exhaustively with issues of sustainability.
Tessema W.K. (2012) Marketing’s contribution to the sustainability of
pastoralism: Evidence from Ethiopia. Dissertation, Wageningen
University, the Netherlands. ISBN: 978-94-6173-314-6
I would suggest that you download the following dissertation from the Wageningen University website. The dissertation deals exhaustively with issues of sustainability.
Tessema W.K. (2012) Marketing’s contribution to the sustainability of
pastoralism: Evidence from Ethiopia. Dissertation, Wageningen
University, the Netherlands. ISBN: 978-94-6173-314-6
I would suggest that you download the following dissertation from the Wageningen University website. The dissertation deals exhaustively with issues of sustainability.
Tessema W.K. (2012) Marketing’s contribution to the sustainability of
pastoralism: Evidence from Ethiopia. Dissertation, Wageningen
University, the Netherlands. ISBN: 978-94-6173-314-6.
kind regards,
Belay
I would suggest that you download the following dissertation from the Wageningen University website. The dissertation deals exhaustively with issues of sustainability.
Tessema W.K. (2012) Marketing’s contribution to the sustainability of
pastoralism: Evidence from Ethiopia. Dissertation, Wageningen
University, the Netherlands. ISBN: 978-94-6173-314-6.
kind regards,
Belay
I would suggest that you download the following dissertation from the Wageningen University website. The dissertation deals exhaustively with issues of sustainability.
Tessema W.K. (2012) Marketing’s contribution to the sustainability of
pastoralism: Evidence from Ethiopia. Dissertation, Wageningen
University, the Netherlands. ISBN: 978-94-6173-314-6.
kind regards,
Belay
Dear professor! I think this link is useful for you.
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
Dear Colleagues, thank you very much for such interesting information.
Dear Eteri, I have written some articles about this subject, most of all in Portuguese. Here are two in englis: The importance of Socioenvironmental Certification in Agrichains and International mapping of certified organic chains. You can find them in my profile here at Research gate. I suggest to look for articles written by my colleagues prof. Jose Eli da Veiga http://www.zeeli.pro.br/ and prof Priscila Borin de Oliveira Claro.
My best wishes
Sam
Maybe you can find some responses in the attached studies
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