Sustainable Agriculture

Identifies resources about sustainable food systems and practices.

Provides technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, extension agents, educators, and others involved in sustainable agriculture.

Gives an overview of sustainable agriculture as part of an online multimedia course developed by scientists and researchers.

Provides materials on efforts to ensure access to healthy food and to promote agriculture through research, education, and communication.

Identifies what it means to produce food sustainably and ways to transition to a sustainable food future.

Lists USDA efforts to support sustainability arising from The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (RIO+20).

Gives information about efforts to advance agricultural innovation to promotes profitability, stewardship of the land, air and water, and quality of life for farmers, ranchers, and their communities.

 Describes USDA projects and publications documenting multi-disciplinary research to understand fundamental agro-ecological processes underlying sustainable systems.

Organizes USDA research on technologies and strategies needed to help farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural practitioners manage their resources. Includes projects on water availability and watershed management, climate change, soils, and emissions, biorefining, agricultural and industrial byproducts, pasture, forage and rangeland systems, and agricultural system competitiveness and sustainability.

 Displays data and reports on policies, trade, research, and standards affecting sustainable practices.