1. Sustainable development Today, the concept of sustainability significantly affects our life and economic activities. In 1987, the Bruntland Commission stated: “Humanity has the possibility of making development sustainable, i.e. ensuring that the needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (World Commission for environment and ...

Sustainable agriculture has lately made significant inroads into US agricultural policy discourse. An examination of the “life cycle” of the Fund for Rural America, a component of the 1996 farm bill, provides an example of the complex and contested ways in which the goals of sustainable agriculture are advocated, negotiated, and implemented at the level of national policy, in the context of the...

Malaysia aims to transform its current agricultural practices to modern, innovative and sustainable levels. There are many issues highlighted to improve the sustainability of agricultural practices. However, this is not an easy task because there are several problems that the society and farmers will face, especially in enhancing their lifestyles as well as their ecosystems. Introducing Informa...

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This title has been given to a three year project in which researchers from France, Spain, Latvia, Denmark and the Netherlands worked together to explore the role of farmers' networking and institutional strategies in the dissemination of sustainable agriculture. The general aim of the project was to analyse the barriers to the implementation of environmentally sound practices in European agric...