WWW Sources of Sustainable Agriculture Information

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•    The WWW Virtual Library: Sustainable Agriculture
• The World Sustainable Agriculture Association
• An Interactive Sustainable Agriculture Poster from Alberta, Canada.
• Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Site includes Integrated Farm Information Sheets on topics including:- Relay and Double Cropping Soybean/wheat Production Systems; Contour Strip Intercropping; To Graze or Not to Graze?; Composting Livestock Wastes on the Integrated Farm and Cover Crops.
• Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP), University of California-Davis.
  Includes updates on Conferences, Workshops, and Courses relating to Sustainable Agriculture.
• Sustainable Farming Connection. If you're looking for ways to increase profits from your farm while building healthy soil and protecting the environment, this is the right place for you.
• Ecological Agricultural Projects at McGill University. Mission to facilitate the establishment of food systems world-wide that are nutritionally sound, socially just, humane, economically viable and environmentally sustainable.
• The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture is located at Iowa State University and has three primary objectives:
  • to identify and reduce negative impacts of agriculture on natural resources and rural communities
  • to develop profitable farming systems that conserve natural resources
  • to work with ISU Extension and other groups to inform the public of new research findings
• The Sustainable Agriculture Network is the communications and outreach arm of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program. SARE is a US Department of Agriculture-funded initiative that sponsors competitive grants for sustainable agriculture research and education in the United States. SAN is dedicated to the exchange of scientific and practical information on sustainable agriculture systems using a variety of printed and electronic communications tools.
• National Environment Strategy for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 
• Green & Growing Environmental Education Project
  From the Ground Up began as a teachers' lesson guide on food, agriculture, and sustainable development. This on-line version is divided into five lessons; The History of Agriculture and a Description of Sustainable Development; Soil; Agriculture and Chemicals; The Real Cost of Food; and Everything's Connected.
• Sustainable Practices for Vegetable Production in the South by Dr. Mary M. Peet, North Carolina State University. Although written for the Southern United States, this on-line book gives a large amount of general information on sustainable agriculture, e.g. soil management, cover crops and living mulches, and conservation tillage.
• The Vetiver Network disseminating information on the use of Vetiver grass (Vetivaria zizanioides, V. nigratana, V. nemoralis) for soil and water conservation, for embankment stabilization, and for pollution control.
• An Organic Farmer's Homepage! with lots of links to useful information.
• Yahoo! - Science:Agriculture:Sustainable Agriculture Allows searches restricted to the Sustainable Agriculture category of this WWW database. It also lists useful WWW links.

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