Alternative agriculture (Topical Term)
- Earlier heading: Agriculture Appropriate technology
- Agriculture, Alternative
- Alternative agricultural systems
- Alternative farming systems
- Broader heading: Agricultural systems
- Broader heading: Appropriate technology
- Sustainable agriculture
Alternative agriculture, 1989 (Committee on the Role of Alternative Farming Methods in Modern Production Agriculture, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council; alternative farming systems) p. 27 (Alternative agriculture is any system of food or fiber production that systematically pursues the following goals: More thorough incorporation of natural processes ...; Reduction in the use of off-farm inputs with ... potential to harm the environment ...; Greater productive use of the biological and genetic potential of plant and animal species; Improvement ... to ensure long-term sustainability ...; and Profitable and efficient production ...)
LC data base, 2/9/90 (alternative agricultural systems, alternative methods of agriculture, alternative agriculture systems, alternative agriculture, alternative/appropriate technologies in agriculture)
Letter from F. Pohl, Mann Library, 3/27/90, and phone call to J. Maclean, NAL, 4/5/90 (related heading: Sustainable agriculture)
Web. 3; Random House; Black's agric. dict.; Biol. & agr. index: v. 42, v. 74, no. 11