Thanks to a complex international system of production, processing, shipping, and marketing, people today can eat a vast selection of out-of-season and out-of-region fruits and vegetables year round. In addition, modern farming practices have provided...

Because of concerns over pesticides and nitrates in ground-water, soil erosion, pesticide residues in food, pest resistance to pesticides, and the rising costs of purchased inputs needed for conventional agriculture, many farmers have begun to adopt...

Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals: environmental stewardship, farm profitability, and prosperous farming communities. These goals have been defined by a variety of disciplines and may be looked at from the vantage point of the farmer...

Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Agricultural Education is an interesting theme for this first issue of 2008. When you first read the theme and begin to analyze its meaning you may think there are two separate concepts we are trying to deal with, but as you...

The 25th anniversary of the coining of the term green revolution was in 1993. William Gadd of the U.S. Department of Agriculture coined the term in 1968 to symbolize the quantum jump in wheat production and productivity achieved in India and Pakistan during...

Americans feel better about buying food produced in the United States than overseas and believe food grown locally is healthier than food shipped from across the country, a new survey shows.The poll released last week by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State...

Zimbabwe is likely to win approval to head a key U.N. body charged with promoting economic progress and environmental protection despite protests from some Western countries and human rights organizations.The 53-member Commission on Sustainable Development is scheduled to vote Friday on its new chair, U.N....

Sustainable agriculture can only be attained through efficient land use, increased productivity and yield, research and planning.