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What
is Sustainable Agriculture?
Sustainable
agriculture refers to an agricultural production and distribution
system that:
- Achieves the integration of natural
biological cycles and controls
- Protects and renews soil fertility
and the natural resource base
- Optimizes the management and use
of on-farm resources
- Reduces the use of nonrenewable
resources and purchased production inputs
- Provides an adequate and dependable
farm income
- Promotes opportunity in family farming
and farm communities
- Minimizes adverse impacts on health,
safety, wildlife, water quality and the environment
Sustainable
Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program
SARE
works to increase knowledge about -- and help farmers and ranchers
adopt -- practices that are economically viable, environmentally
sound and socially responsible. To advance such knowledge nationwide,
SARE administers a competitive grants program first funded by Congress
in 1988.
Access our brand new publication:
Sustainable Agriculture in Idaho
Highlighting Seventeen Years of Progress Connecting Social,
Environmental, and Economic Agricultural Issues
Research and Development
Professional Development
Program
Farmer and Rancher Grants
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