The Science of Sustainable Agriculture: Measuring the Immeasurable

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Natural Resource Scarcity and Sustainable Agriculture

Jeffrey Krautkraemer, Professor, Department of Economics, Washington State University, Pullman

The Science of Sustainable Agriculture in a Context of Disciplinary and Private Knowledge

William Lacy, Vice Provost, University Outreach & International Programs, and Professor, Department of Human and Community Development, University of California Davis

Managing Rangelands to Conserve Biodiversity

Jill Landsberg, Theme Leader, Tropical Savannas Cooperative Research Centre, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia

Intensive Cereal Production Systems for Global Food Security and Protection of Natural Resources

Kenneth Cassman, Professor and Chair, Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, University of Nebraska Lincoln

Sustainable Soil Management to Help Mitigate Climate Change: Opportunities and Limitations

Pete Smith, Reader, Soils and Global Change, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Globalization and Its Impact on California Agriculture

William Friedland, Professor Emeritus, Community Studies and Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz

How Do We Know the Impact of Sustainable Agriculture on Quality of Life?

Cornelia Butler Flora, Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Sociology and Director of the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Iowa State University

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Land and Water Management in Arid Regions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Daniel Hillel, Center for Environmental Studies, Israel, and Professor Emeritus of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Strategies for Sustainability in Agriculture: A European Perspective

Floor Brouwer, Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI), The Hague, Netherlands

Why You Should Eat Food and Other Nutritional Heresies

Joan Dye Gussow, Professor Emeritus of Nutrition and Education, Columbia University

Measuring Sustainability: Learning by Doing

Simon Bell, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems, Center for Complexity and Change, Technology Faculty, The Open University, United Kingdom

Developing a Curriculum for a Sustainable Agriculture: Educating the Researchers and Farmers of the Future

Charles Francis, Professor of Agronomy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Civic Agriculture and Food Citizenship: Sustaining Local Food Systems in a Globalizing Environment

Thomas A. Lyson, Liberty Hyde Baily Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University

Unfolding a Sustainable Agriculture for the 21st Century: Some Challenges for Education and Extension

Fred Kirschemann, Director, Leopold Center, Iowa State University

Agricultural Production and Climate Changes

Cynthia Rosenzweig, Research Scientiest, National Aeronautic and Space Administration, Goddard Institute for Space Studies

The Science Behind Organic and Biodynamic Farming

John Reganold, Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman

Economic Policies to Encourage Sustainable Agriculture - Some Examples from Irrigated Crop Production

Richard Howitt, Professor, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California, Davis

Past, Present, and Future of Sustainable Agriculture at UC Davis

William Horwath, Associate Professor of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis

Intensive Agriculture and the New Malthus: A Perspective from India

Glenn Davis Stone, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis.