Jeff Krautkraemer

Economics Of Scarcity: State Of The Debate. Jeffrey A. Krautkraemer. March 2002, Revised October 2002, May 2003.

Jill Landsberg

James, C.D., J. Landsberg and S.R. Morton. 1999. Provision of watering points in the Australian arid zone: a review of effects on biota. J. Arid Environments 41: 87-121.

Landsberg, J., C.D. James, J. Maconochie, A.O. Nicholls, J. Stol and R. Tynan. 2002. Scale-related effects of grazing on native plant communities in an arid rangeland region of South Australia. J. Appl. Ecol. 39: 427-44.

Landsberg, J., T. O’Connor and D. Freudenberger. 1999. The impacts of livestock grazing on biodiversity in natural systems. Pages 753-777 in: Nutritional Ecology of Herbivores - Proceedings of the Vth International Symposium on the Nutrition of Herbivores (Eds: H-J Jung & GC Fahey), Publ by the Amer. Soc. Animal Sci., Savoy, Illinois

Pete Smith

Smith, P. and D.S. Powlson. 2003. Sustainability of soil management practices – a global perspective. In: Soil Biological Fertility - A Key To Sustainable Land Use In Agriculture. (ed. L.K. Abbott & D.V. Murphy), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands (in press).

Smith, P. 2003. Soils as carbon sinks - the global context. Soil Use and Management (in press).

Smith, P. 2003. Carbon sequestration in croplands: the potential in Europe and the global context. European Journal of Agronomy (in press).

Smith, P., David Powlson, Jo U. Smith, Pete Falloon and Kevin Coleman. 2000. Meeting Europe's climate change commitments: Quantitative estimates of the potential for carbon mitigation by agriculture. Global Change Biology (2000) 6:525-539

Cornelia Flora

Flora, C.B. 1995. Social Capital and Sustainability: Agriculture and Communities in the Great Plains and the Corn Belt. Research in Rural Sociology and Development: A Research Annual. 6: 227-246.

Daniel Hillel

Out of the Earth: Civilization & the Life of the Soil. University of California Press, 1992.

Rivers of Eden: The Struggle for Water & the Quest for Peace in the Middle East. Oxford University Press, 1994.

Joan Gussow

Consultation Document To Guide Development Of A World Health Organization Global Strategy For Diet, Physical Activity And Health. World Health Organization, January 2003.

Charles Francis

Focus on Learning - Becoming an Agroecologist. Draft Discussion Paper for Mikkeli Workshop and SOCRATES Group, 13 September 2003. Prepared by Geir Lieblein, Tor Arvid Breland, Charles Francis, Edvin Østergaard.

Francis, C., G. Lieblein , S. Gliessman , T.A. Breland, N. Creamer , R. Harwood , L. Salomonsson , J. Helenius , D. Rickerl , R. Salvador , M. Wiedenhoeft, S. Simmons, P. Allen, M. Altieri , C. Flora , and R. Poincelot. 2003. Agroecology: The Ecology of Food Systems. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, Volume 22(3):99-119, 2003.

Useful References on Sustainable Agriculture

John Reganold

Reganold, J. P., L. F. Elliott & Y. L. Unger. 1987. Long-term effects of organic and conventional farming on soil erosion. Nature. 330:370-372.

Reganold, J. P., A. S. Palmer, J. C. Lockhart, & A. N. Macgregor. 1993. Soil quality and financial performance of biodynamic and conventional farms in New Zealand. Science. 260:344-349.

Reganold, J. P., J. D. Glover, P. K. Andrews, & H. R. Hinman. 2001. Sustainability of three apple production systems. Nature. 410:926-930.

William Horwath

Clark, M. S., H. Ferris, K. Klonsky, W.T. Lanini, A.H.C. vanBruggen, & F.G. Zalom. 1998. Agronomic, economic, and environmental comparison of pest management in conventional and alternative tomato and corn systems in northern California. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 68:51-71.

Clark, S., K. Klonsky, P. Livingston, and S. Temple. 1999. Crop-yield and economic comparisons of organic, low-input, and conventional farming systems in California's Sacramento Valley. American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 14: 109-121.

Feenstra. 2002. Creating space for sustainable food systems: Lessons from the field. Agriculture and Human Values 19:99-106.

Poudel, D.D., H. Ferris, K. Klonsky, W.R. Horwath, K.M. Scow, A.H.C. van Bruggen, W.T. Lanini, J.P. Mitchell, S.R. Temple. 2001. The Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems Project in California's Sacramento Valley. Outlook on Agriculture 30(2): 109-116.

Poudel, D.D., W.R. Horwath, J.P. Mitchell, and S.R. Temple. 2001. Impacts of cropping systems on soil nitrogen storage and loss. Agricultural Systems 68:253-268.

Swezey and Broome 2000. Growth predicted in biologically integrated and organic farming systems. California Agriculture 54 (4), July-August 2000: 26-35.