Growing interest in sustainable agriculture has generated a wealth of educational materials on the many social, environmental, and agronomic topics related to this expanding field.

In creating this online resource, we’ve reviewed hundreds of resources—textbooks, popular books, web sites, videos, PowerPoint presentations, and more—to identify the highest-quality and most relevant materials on sustainable agriculture available. Whether you’re teaching a 2-hour community gardening workshop on irrigation or a semester-long college course on the social and environmental impacts of agriculture, this resource will help you locate the best materials to meet your instructional needs.

We’ve also developed a catalogue description and outline for a comprehensive course on sustainable agriculture, appropriate for the community college, state college, or university level). The Course Outline includes topics in social and environmental sciences; plant, soil, crop, and animal sciences; pest management; natural resource management; the adoption of sustainable agriculture; and the growth and development of sustainable agriculture and the organic food industry.

This Farmers' Agribusiness training course has been developed to help both farmers and farmer organisations. Its intention is to provide access to additional skills and knowledge that will allow farmers to move from a 'farm' to a 'firm'. Module 2 looks at sustainable agriculture. This lesson provides a definition of sustainable agriculture, discusses the impacts of various agriculture practices and sustainability practices.

Aquaculture is the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a re-circulating system. Growing Power uses Tilapia and Yellow Perch to fertilize a variety of crops and herbs using aquaponics. Currently, we have three Tilapia systems and six Yellow Perch aquaponics systems in our greenhouses at our urban farm in Milwaukee.

This booklet contains several activities that can be used by students to become more aware of how plants, animals, and humans interact within ecosystems, and how one influences the other. The activities can be used singly with other projects, but completion of all activities should give students an understanding of how ecosystems work and how all aspects of an ecosystem are interrelated.

This BioBulletin Web site takes a close look at chocolate and why yields from cacao plants around the world are falling. The site includes text, videos, photographs, and interviews with key scientists.

The Perspectives of Agricultural Extension aims at providing AICM students with an understanding of the perspectives of agricultural extension. Specifically, the module aims to: Enable student understanding of agricultural extension perspectives in the current changing scenario of agriculturet; Enhance students' understanding of Information and Communication Technology and Management within the existing agricultural extension system and the changes that need to be considered; Produce graduates who understand the importance of agricultural information communication management and are self-sufficient in applying it in their agricultural extension practice; Produce graduates who will strengthen the capacity of the extension system in the area of Information and Communication Management (ICM) so as to provide services in technology diffusion and uptake.The course module is divided into thirteen topics in total. Each topic in the module consists of an introduction, objectives, outcomes and summary. Assessment activities in the form of assignments, field work, cases studies and reflections are also found under all the topics except topic five. These activities will help you in your attempt to learn, critically analyse and understand the contents of the topics. Each topic in the module consists of an introduction, objectives, outcomes and summary. Assessment activities in the form of assignments, field work, cases studies and reflections are also found under all the topics except topic five. These activities will help you in your attempt to learn, critically analyse and understand the contents of the topics.

This book explores six strategies for eliminating the gap between consumption and renewable production.