Browse through our extensive collection of resources on sustainable agriculture.
A Brief Overview of the History and Philosophy of Organic Agriculture
This publication outlines the origins of organic agriculture, highlighting the concepts that define it as a distinct and sustainable approach to farming.
Closer to Home: Healthier Food, Farms and Families in Oklahoma
The Closer to Home report looks at Oklahoma’ food system from farm to table, asking how we can make our fields and tables healthier.
Ecologically-Based Communities
How Is My Food Grown? Food Labeling for Sustainable Agriculture
Summarizes U.S. food labeling laws; discusses economics of food labeling; analyzes labeling of organic and genetically modified foods, with a comparison of those cases between the United States and the European Union.
Organic Foods: What Do We Need to Know About Them?
Brief summary of issues in organic food and farming from a customer’s point of view: definition, benefits, GMOs, pesticides, regulatory agencies, labeling, shopping
Seeds of Change: Food and Agriculture Policy for Oklahoma’s Future
This document contains policy recommendations covering environmental issues, fair markets and contracts, marketing, education and research, and rural development. Also: guiding principles, mission and values of the Kerr Center. For state and national use.
Sustainable vs. Industrial Agriculture: How They Compare
Ten Years of Change: SARE 10th Anniversary
The Next Green Revolution: Essential Steps to a Healthy, Sustainable Agriculture
Provides Instructors a Useful Framework for Teaching the Essential Points of Sustainable Agriculture. Use as a Supplemental Text for Courses in Agriculture, the Environmental Sciences, and Rural Sociology.
The Ogallala Aquifer
This paper critically examines the impacts of the increasing use of the Ogallala-with specific focus on the situation in the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle regions, and the possibility of adopting sustainable development practices to curb the increasing aquifer water depletion and deterioration.
