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Alternative Agriculture Systems
Permaculture
Alternative Agricultural Practices
Sustainability and Agriculture
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What sustainable agriculture avoids and excludes the use of fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators, and livestock food additives?
What is organic farming
100
What sustainable agriculture is concerned with designing ecological human habitat and food production systems?
What is permaculture
100
What is conservative tillage and what are some of the benefits that follow this practice?
What is protection from soil erosion, less soil disturbance, better soil structure
100
According to the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Program, what are the three pillars of sustainability?
What is to make a profit over the long term; stewardship for land and water; and quality of life for farmers and communities
200
What sustainable agriculture was developed in Japan in the 1930s that parallels organic farming in many ways but includes special emphasis on soil health through composts rather than organic fertilizers when possible.
What is nature farming
200
What are two of the tweleve principles of Permaculture?
What is observe and interact, use and value biodiversity, etc...
200
What are some frequent indicators of sustainable practices, such as those that appear in Steve Diver‘s article?
What is environmentally-friendly, economically viable, socially acceptable, and others
200
Name some of the most important aspects of organic agricultural practices
What is crop rotation, organic waste, green manure, cover crops, legumes, and biological pest control
300
What sustainable agriculture parallels organic farming in many ways but places greater emphasis on the integration of animals to create a closed nutrient cycle and on the effect of crop planting dates in relation to the calendar?
What is Biodynamic Farming
300
Name some key ideas related to an ecologically friendly society found in permaculture farming.
Refer to Evan
300
What are three functions of a cover crop in an agroecosystem?
What is nitrogen-fixation, reduced erosion, biodiversity preservation, green manure, and food.
300
What is the sustainable/alternative type of agriculture called (described by Steve Diver) that lays most emphasis on the use of compost and the maintenance of soil health and local nutrient cycles?
What is nature farming
400
What kind of sustainable agriculture uses diagnostic instruments to monitor plant and soil conditions and allows some selected chemical fertilizers?
What is Biological
400
Who coined the term permaculture farming and where were they located?
Who is Bill Mollison in Australian
400
What does the term holistic management mean, in relation to the holistic approach and integrated management system mentioned in the Sustainable Agriculture Extension Program?
Open Ended
400
What are some of the best practices in sustainable agriculture according to the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Program?
What is ecologically friendly societies, ecological control over weeds and pests, conservation tillage, cover crops, nutrient management, energy production on the croft, and a holistic approach
500
What sustainable agriculture was under the direction of Robert Rosedale in the late 1970s and 80s and builds on nature's own inherent capacity to cope with pests, enhance soil fertility and increase productivity?
What is regenerative farming
500
Explain what the author Steve Diver means when he describes permaculture as a design philosophy rather than a set of practices.
Refer to Evan
500
Discuss how biodiversity is an integral part of sustainable agriculture.
What is e.g. variety of crops to sell; ecological health; system resilience; open-ended
500
Name three general elements of the world view that alternative models of agriculture hold (in comparison to industrial agriculture).
What is decentralization, independence, community, harmony with landscape, diversity, restraint