Listed are various terms synonymous with sustainability. Use different terms when searching databases, and catalogs. From Virginia Tech’s Sustainability Research Guide.
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Movements
Agrarian
Agrarianism
Agricultural ecology
Agricultural land
Agri-environmental indicator
Agrobiodiversity
Agroecology
Agroecosystems
Agroforestry
Agroforestry systems
Agropastoral systems
Alternative agriculture
Alternative farming
Animal ecology
Appropriate technology
Arthropoda as biological pest control agents
Bacterial diversity
Best management practices (pollution prevention)
Bio-control
Biodiversity
Biodynamic farming or agriculture
Biofertilizers
Biointensive gardening
Biointensive integrated pest management
Biological control
Biological control agents
Biological diversity
Biological farming or agriculture
Biological indicators
Biological pest control agents
Biologically integrated farming systems
Bonemeal
Bufferstrips
Carbon footprint (CF)
Carbon sequestration
Carrying capacity
Community food system
Community gardens
Community life
Community-based agriculture
Community-based economics
Community-supported agriculture (CSA)
Compost
Conservation
Conservation buffers
Conservation tillage
Controlled grazing
Crops — ecology
Dendroecology
Direct agricultural markets
Eco-agriculture
Ecological farming
Ecological farming or agriculture
Ecological footprint (ef)
Ecosystems
Environmental indicators
Externalities
Externalities (economic)
Family farms
Farmers markets
Farmers’ markets
Farmland preservation
Farmland protection
Field crops — ecology
Food chains
Food circle
Food consumption
Food cooperatives (co-ops)
Food miles
Food patriotism
Food policy
Food security
Food supply
Food webs
Foodshed
Foodways (food symbolism and traditions)
Garden ecology
Good agricultural practices (gap)
Grass farming or agriculture
Grass-based farming or agriculture
Grassland management
Grasslands
Grazing intensity
Grazing systems
Green manuring
Green politics
High-intensity, low-frequency grazing (hilf)
Holistic management (HM)
Holistic range management
Holistic resource management (hrm)
Human ecology
Humus
Integrated agricultural systems
Integrated pest management
Intensive grazing
Kyusei nature farming or agriculture
Land use and sustainability
Life cycle and (environmental assessment or environmental impact)