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• Seed saving
  In [[agriculture]] and [[gardening]], '''seed saving''' is the practice of saving seeds from *[[sustainable agriculture]]
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• Urban agriculture
  '''Urban (or peri-urban) agriculture''' is the practice of [[agriculture]] (including crops, [[livestock]], [[fishery|fisheries]], and [[forestry]] ...it promotes energy-saving [[local food]] production, urban and peri-urban agriculture are [[sustainability]] practices.
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• Agroecology
  ...es to the design, development, and management of [[Sustainable agriculture|sustainable agricultural systems]]. Agroecology is the science of sustainable agriculture; the methods of agroecology have as their goal achieving sustainability of
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• International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
  ...nd [[sustainable use]] of the world's plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, as well as the fair and equitable [[benefit sharing]] arising from its use ...ng from the commercial utilization of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture covered by the MLS.
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• List of organic gardening and farming topics
  ...xclusively within the domain of organic growing, but apply to all types of agriculture and gardening. Others, such as the list of animals, insects, and microorgan ==[[Agriculture|Crops]]==
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• Companion planting
  '''Companion planting''' in gardening and agriculture is planting of different crops in close physical proximity. It is a form of ...e inclusion of squash with these two plants completes the [[Three Sisters (agriculture)|Three Sisters]] technique, pioneered by [[Indigenous peoples of the Americ
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• Local food
  ...[[local economy|local economies]] and may be [[ecology|ecologically]] more sustainable. ...s' market]]s, [[cooperative|food cooperative]]s and [[community-supported agriculture]] plans.
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• Permaculture
  ...a design system which utilizes a [[systems thinking]] approach to create [[sustainable]] human [[Habitat (ecology)|habitat]]s by analyzing and duplicating [[natur ...]," as well as community design. It seeks the creation of productive and [[sustainable]] ways of living by integrating [[ecology]], [[landscape]], [[organic garde
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• Plant breeding
  ...f/CGIARGEF2002final.pdf Agriculture and the environment, partnership for a sustainable future].</ref>. ttp://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/publications/pubfile.asp?ID_PUB=47The Origins of Agriculture and Crop Domestication - The Harlan Symposium]''
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• Agriculture
  '''Agriculture''' (a term which encompasses '''farming''' and '''[[ranching]]''') is the p ...[[livestock]]. Agriculture is also short for the study of the practice of agriculture&mdash;more formally known as [[agricultural science]].
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• Sustainability
  ..." Thus energy saving compact florescent light bulbs can be considered more sustainable than incandescent ones, and so forth. ...rwegian Prime Minister [[Gro Harlem Brundtland]]. The Commission defined [[sustainable development]] as development that "meets the needs of the present without c
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• Pollinator decline
  As [[agriculture|plantings]] have grown larger, the need for concentrated pollinators at [[f ...their energy requirements for the migration. In some areas development or agriculture has disrupted and broken up these traditional corridors, and the pollinator
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• Guerrilla gardening
  ...e industrial food web but it does not offer enough to create a healthy and sustainable food system. In the event energy costs will be so high that stores will cea *[[Community Supported Agriculture]]
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• Brazil nut
  * {{IUCN2006|assessors=Americas Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Costa Rica, November 1996)|year=1998|id=32986|title=Be [[Category:Tropical agriculture]]
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• Green roof
  In Egypt, soil-less agriculture is used to grow plants on the roofs of buildings. No soil is put directly o *[[Sustainable city]]
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• Conservation ethic
  ...of resources between all users, current and future (a first approach to [[sustainable development]]) by avoiding despoiling. However, he does not take into accou *[[International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture]]
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• Rice
  ...y [[human]]s in their global diets.<ref>Smith, Bruce D. ''The Emergence of Agriculture''. Scientific American Library, A Division of HPHLP, New York, 1998.</ref> ...vity, although rice can also be grown on dry land (including on [[Terrace (agriculture)|terraced hillsides]]) with the help of chemical weed controls.
  47 KB (7,007 words) - 07:21, 14 July 2007
• Landscape architecture
  ...management, [[forestry]], nature [[conservation ethic|conservation]] and [[agriculture]]. *[[Sustainable landscape architecture]]
  15 KB (2,138 words) - 14:57, 9 April 2007
• Allotment
  ..., R.J. and D.L. Iaquinta 2006. Urban Homegardens and Allotment Gardens for Sustainable Livelihoods: Management Strategies and Institutional Environments. In: Kuma ...S., and Drescher, A., 2003. Allotment Gardens for Philippine Cities. Urban Agriculture Magazine, 11, 29-31. [http://www.ruaf.org/node/358]</ref> Meanwhile, with t
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• Houseplant
  ...ing to the replacement of peat by [[coir]] ([[coconut]] fibre), which is a sustainable resource. A nutrient rich compost can usually be bought wherever potted pla ...html Potting Mixes for Certified Organic Production], National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
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