Agriculture

The USDA's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program's Ten Years of SARE profiles people and projects from the last decade of its work. The site includes 10 subject areas--from crop production to natural resource protection--and offers examples of successful projects from around the nation.

Exploring Sustainability in Agriculture offers a brief overview of sustainable agriculture and features a number of profiles of farmers pursuing it.

The American Farmland Trust reports that states nationwide are making significant advances in protecting agricultural land from sprawl. At a recent conference, the group announced that Purchase of Agricultural Easements (PACE) programs have protected 23 percent more farmland than in the previous year.

Community Development

The Sonoran Institute's website includes a number of case studies focused on collaborative and community-based approaches to environmental and economic sustainability.

National Rural Development Partnership "success stories" and "works in progress" from across the nation are indexed in this electronic archive.

Countryside Exchange, a project of the Glynwood Center, has helped more than 80 communities evaluate their assets and look for funding to support improving or developing those assets, Countryside Exchange assembles a team of professionals who work with a local organizing committee to make recommendations for how the community should proceed.

Last updated: June 21, 2004

Back to Top