Developing and Extending Sustainable Agriculture A New Social Contract

• About the Editors
  
• Contributors
  
• Foreword (James Ian Gray and Fred L. Poston)
  
• Preface
  
• Chapter 1. Overview of the Educational Social Contract: Building a Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (Ray P. Poincelot, Charles A. Francis, and George W. Bird)
  
• Introduction
  
• Evolving Role of Extension
  
• Industrial Agriculture and Family Farming
  
• Building an Appropriate Information Foundation
  
• Mainstream Activities in Sustainable Agriculture
  
• Closing the Loop: Educating the Consumer
  
• Renewing the Contract
  
• Chapter 2. Integrated Pest Management, Ecoliteracy, and Unexpected Consequences (George W. Bird and Michael J. Brewer)
  
• Introduction
  
• Nature of IPM
  
• Monitoring and Evaluation
  
• State IPM Program Coordinator Observations
  
• Management Strategies and Tactics
  
• IPM Program Implementation
  
• IPM Program Resiliency
  
• IPM Tactics for Resiliency
  
• Multiple Benefits of IPM Tactics
  
• Economics of IPM
  
• Ecoliteracy
  
• Law of Unexpected Consequences
  
• Chapter 3. Soil Management in Sustainable Production Systems (Kent McVay)
  
• Soil Development in Modern History
  
• Reasons and Goals
  
• Use of Cover Crops
  
• Cropping Systems That Mimic a Natural Environment
  
• Maintaining a Living Soil
  
• Earthworms
  
• Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhizae
  
• Soil Management and Soil Quality
  
• Enhancing Environmental Quality and Productivity
  
• Chapter 4. Managed Grazing in Sustainable Farming Systems (Terry Gompert)
  
• Introduction
  
• Why Promote Managed Grazing?
  
• What Do We Graze?
  
• What Ecological Principles Do We Consider?
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 5. Whole-Farm Planning and Implementing Sustainable Agriculture (Rhonda R. Janke)
  
• Background
  
• Identifying and Filling the Gaps
  
• Literature Review and Testing the Tools
  
• Putting Together a Tool for Kansas
  
• Testing, Implementation, and Outreach
  
• Other Forms of Whole-Farm Planning
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 6. Economic Analysis and Multiple Impact Valuation Strategies (John Ikerd)
  
• Introduction
  
• Comparisons of Alternative Farming Practices, Methods, and Enterprises
  
• Comparisons of Alternative Farming Systems
  
• Community, Regional, and National Impacts
  
• Whole-Farm Case Studies
  
• Decision Support Methodology
  
• Issues of Sustainability
  
• Chapter 7. Transformation in the Heartland: Emergence of Sustainable Agriculture in Iowa (Jerry DeWitt and Charles A. Francis)
  
• Introduction
  
• Background for Change
  
• Key Early Innovations
  
• Major Initiatives and Projects in Sustainable Agriculture
  
• Current and Ongoing Projects
  
• Lessons Learned in the Iowa Experience
  
• Conclusions and Potentials for Future Iowa Agriculture
  
• Chapter 8. Regional Training Workshops for Sustainable Agriculture (Heidi Carter, Charles A. Francis, and Richard Olson)
  
• Introduction
  
• Focus on Planning
  
• Choice of Workshop Themes
  
• Annual Themes for Workshops
  
• Materials and Learning Methods
  
• Participatory Learning Methods
  
• Evaluation
  
• Lessons Learned and Recommendations
  
• Conclusions and Future Dimensions
  
• Chapter 9. Regionalization of a Research and Education Competitive Grants Program (Steven S. Waller, Elbert C. Dickey, and Charles A. Francis)
  
• Rationale for a Regional Program
  
• North Central Region Administration and Planning
  
• Organizational Structure for Regional Research and Education
  
• Strategic Planning
  
• Grant Making Process
  
• Communications Specialist
  
• Speakers Bureau
  
• Producer Grant Program
  
• Producer Grant Coordinator
  
• Diversity Enhancement Grants
  
• Targeted Areas of Research and Education
  
• Graduate Student Support
  
• Training and Education in Sustainable Agriculture
  
• State Sustainable Agriculture Conferences
  
• Evaluation of Regional SARE Programs
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 10. Expanding Visions of Sustainable Agriculture (Lorna Michael Butler and Cornelia Butler Flora)
  
• Introduction
  
• Agriculture As a Multifunctional Activity
  
• The Sustainable Agriculturist
  
• A New Social Movement in the Heartland
  
• New Institutional Models
  
• Changes at the Farm Level
  
• New Models at the Community Level
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 11. Creating Viable Living Linkages Between Farms and Communities (Michele Schoeneberger, Gary Bentrup, Charles A. Francis, and Richard Straight)
  
• Unique Rural/Urban Interfaces
  
• Problems Facing Our Working Lands
  
• Ecobelts: Connecting the Working Lands
  
• Ecobelt Principles
  
• Creating People Linkages to Create Working Landscape Linkages
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 12. Testing Ideas and Transferring Capacity Through Farmer Research: The Iowa Model (Rick Exner and Richard Thompson)
  
• Introduction
  
• Matching the Design to the Question: Profiles of Farmer-Researchers
  
• Replicating the Experience
  
• Chapter 13. Impacts of Private Foundations on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems (Oran B. Hesterman)
  
• Introduction
  
• Sustainable Agriculture Funding, 1988-2002
  
• Loss of Funders: Impact on the Nonprofit Community
  
• Funding Types
  
• Impacts of Private Foundation Funding
  
• What Have We Learned?
  
• Case Examples of Sustainable Agriculture Projects
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 14. Motivation Theory and Research in Sustainable Agriculture (Shirley K. Trout, Charles A. Francis, and John E. Barbuto Jr.)
  
• Introduction
  
• Motivation Theories
  
• Motivation and Sustainable Agriculture
  
• Tools of the Motivation Trade
  
• Motivation in Practice
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 15. Future Potential for Organic Farming: A Question of Ethics and Productivity (Frederick Kirschenmann and George W. Bird)
  
• Introduction
  
• Emergence of Organic Agriculture
  
• Challenges Facing Agriculture in the Twenty-First Century
  
• A New Paradigm for Agriculture
  
• The Evolution of an Ecological Conscience
  
• Chapter 16. Future Multifunctional Rural Landscapes and Communities (Charles A. Francis)
  
• Introduction
  
• Building a Foundation
  
• SARE Results in Cooperative Extension Programs
  
• Future Farming Practices and Farm Evaluation
  
• Future Outreach Programs for Viable Rural Communities and Landscapes
  
• Future Priorities for Cooperative Extension
  
• Conclusions
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

Biography

Charles A. Francis, George Bird, Raymond Poincelot