What is Sustainable Agriculture?




The following organizations work to support the sustainability of our food supply.
  • American Farmland Trust - American Farmland Trust is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1980 to protect our nation's farmland. AFT works to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment.
  • America's Second Harvest - America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization. Through a network of over 200 food banks and food-rescue programs, they distribute food to 26 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of whom are children.
  • Beyond Pesticides - Beyond Pesticides is a non-profit membership organization that was formed to serve as a national network committed to pesticide safety and the adoption of alternative pest management strategies which reduce or eliminate a dependency on toxic chemicals.
  • Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food System - The mission of the CASFS is to research, develop, and advance sustainable food and agricultural systems that are environmentally sound, economically viable, socially responsible, nonexploitative, and that serve as a foundation for future generations.
  • Chefs Collaborative - The Chefs Collaborative is a national network of more than 1000 members of the food community who promote sustainable cuisine by celebrating the joys of local, seasonal and artisanal ingredients.
  • Ecology Action Centre - The Ecology Action Centre has been an active advocate, protecting the environment since 1972. It focuses on Marine, Wilderness, Transportation, and Environment & Development Issues, with a connection to the School Ground Naturalization project.

  • Ecotrust's Food and Farms Program - Ecotrust's Food and Farms program is focused on creating a vibrant, healthy, values-based regional food economy where access, quality, resource stewardship and local control are the norm, not the exception. They do this through several local and regional projects.

  • Edible Schoolyard - The mission of the Edible Schoolyard is to create and sustain an organic garden which is integrated into the school's curriculum and lunch program. It involves the students in all aspects of farming the garden and preparing, serving and eating the food.
  • Environmental Defense Fund - Environmental Defense is a not-for-profit environmental advocacy group with four main goals: Stabilizing the Earth's climate, safeguarding the world's oceans, protecting human health, and defending and restoring biodiversity.
  • Environmental News Network - Since 1993, the Environmental News Network has been working to educate the world about environmental issues facing our Earth. They offer timely environmental news, live chats, daily feature stories, forums for debate, audio, video and more.
  • Environmental Working Group - The EWGis a leading content provider for public interest groups and concerned citizens who are campaigning to protect the environment. EWG's staff of 18 researchers, computer experts and writers produce hundreds of headline-making reports each year.
  • The Food Alliance - Food Alliance is a non-profit organization that promotes sustainable agriculture by recognizing and rewarding farmers who produce food in environmentally friendly and socially responsible ways, and educating consumers and others in the food system about the benefits of sustainable agriculture. Food Alliance operates the most comprehensive third-party certification program in North America for sustainably produced food.
  • Hillsboro Farmers Market - The Farmers Markets goals include bringing fresh, quality, Oregon-grown products to consumers, and providing growers and producers of Oregon-grown products with alternative marketing opportuniities and direct interface with the public.
  • National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture - The NCSA is dedicated to educating the public on the importance of a sustainable food and agriculture system that is economically viable, environmentally sound, socially just, and humane.
  • National Gardening Association - The nonprofit National Gardening Association, established in 1972, has two goals: helping gardeners and helping people through gardening.
  • National Resources Defense Counsel - NRDC uses law, science, and member support nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.
  • Organic Farming Research Foundation - The OFRF sponsors research into organic farming practices, disseminates research results to organic farmers and growers interested organic production systems, and educates the public and decision-makers about organic farming issues.
  • Organic Trade Association - The Organic Trade Association (OTA) is a membership-based business association representing organic growers, shippers, processors, certifiers, farmer associations, brokers, manufacturers, consultants, distributors and retailers in North America.
  • Pesticide Action Network - PANNA (Pesticide Action Network North America), as one of five PAN Regional Centers worldwide, works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.
  • Salmon Safe.org - Salmon Safe is a nonprofit organization working to restore our agricultural and urban water sheds.
  • Seaweb - SeaWeb is a project designed to raise awareness of the world ocean and the life within it. We believe that as more people begin to appreciate the earth as a water planet, they will take actions to conserve the ocean and the web of life it supports.
  • Seed Savers Exchange - Seed Savers Exchange works to save "heirloom" (handed-down) garden seeds from extinction. SSE's 8,000 members grow and distribute heirloom varieties of vegetables, fruits, and grains.
  • Share Our Strength - SOS is one of the nation's leading anti-hunger, anti-poverty organizations. They mobilize thousands of people in the culinary industry to host dinners, teach cooking and nutrition classes to low-income families and serve as anti-hunger advocates.
  • SOLV .org - Solv is a nonprofit organization that brings together government agencies, businesses, and individual volunteers in programs and projects to enhance the livability of Oregon.
  • Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education - SARE works to increase knowledge about -- and help farmers and ranchers adopt -- practices that are economically viable, environmentally sound and socially responsible, using a competitive grants program first funded by Congress in 1988.
  • Sustainable Farming Connection - This website -- conceived and managed by former staff members of The New Farm magazine -- helps farmers tame costs, add value to what they sell and keeps them informed of the latest news from the sustainable farming community.
  • Transfair USA - A non-profit certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States.
  • World Hunger Year - WHY is a leader in using grassroots solutions to fight hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world.
  • World Resources Institute - World Resources Institute provides information, ideas, and solutions in an effort to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth's environment for current and future generations.
  • Worldwatch Institute - Worldwatch is a non profit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems.

 
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