Organic Business for Sustainability
What is Sustainability of Agriculture in 21 century? Does it really affect to the post-pandemic industy?
There is the article interested for the definition and value of sustainable agriculture. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library (NAL) holds a vast archive of historical documentation covering all aspects of agriculture. This bibliography focuses on works and authors selected from the Library collection that pertain to sustainability in agriculture.
It was compiled in the hope of increasing recognition of and access to knowledge that might help address today’s challenges to a sustainable agriculture. This publication builds on an original 1988 bibliography authored by former Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC) coordinator, Jane Potter Gates.
Driving any business project for sustainable agriculture is a less complicated endeavor than defining it. People from all walks of life understand that there are practical steps that can be taken to protect the ecological and human resources that a viable food production system relies on.
Organic farming holds a special place under the sustainable agriculture umbrella. The U.S. Department of Agriculture now defines standards for organic practices and for food labeled as “organic.” The commercial impacts of this phenomenon have added new issues to the sustainability discussion.
The farmers, researchers, social thinkers, educators, historians, policy makers, artists and everyday citizens represented here analyzed and proposed remedies for problems of their own eras. Some of them were “movers and shakers;” others remained obscure, to be discovered by later generations. Most researched and wrote on the edges of the “conventional wisdom” of their day. Many of them studied history themselves, looking backward for information and direction.
Challenges to a sustainable, global food system that will carry us through the coming years and into the next century are daunting. However, we have access to a storehouse of tools with which to work: a diverse agricultural knowledgebase; interdisciplinary research and expertise; cutting-edge technology applications; and a global communication system with which to share information.