Resistance to Sustainable Agriculture

One of the main resistances to sustainable agriculture is the cost. It costs money for farmers to change over to sustainable ways of farming, including equipment, various crops, and a person's way of life. To change over to sustainable farming involves more regulation including erosion control and organic crop production. Another resistance are farmers attitudes towards changing their farming practices that have been in their families for years. It's tough to convince and old time farmer to change over to a new type of farming. It's especially hard to explain the long term benefits of sustainable agriculture. To solve this, the idea of sustainability must be presented to people of resistance in a straight-forward an honest manner. If it doesn't stick to the old timers, perhaps the younger generations can get on board.

Lastly, sustainable agriculture can jeopardize the availability of year round produce and other goods. Sustainability coincides with "natural" and it's not "natural": to have fresh oranges in Pullman in January. Perhaps with the development of hydroponics, out of season crops can be grown locally. This will then benefit not only consumers, but the farmers in the long run.

References That Help to Understand World Hunger and Sustainablity

This is covering three different topics that relate to world hunger which including fair-trade and sustainable agriculture.. 15 references:

http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=1271

Gives a good basic understanding of world hunger, not only the United State's role, but also in a global context. In which the United States plays a much bigger role in world hunger then we give credit.

http://www.freedomfromhunger.org/info/

Talks about world hunger, and hows it relates to early childhood. Under the age of five, nearly 11,000,000 children are severely malnourished.

http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/

Gives a great graph to show the world hunger problem and gives numbers on a year by year number.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7669152.stm

Gives insight on one country, India, which is one of the most stricken countries of world hunger in the world, again gives a great picture and graphs for people to look at.

http://www.oneworldhunger.org/

This page is a world relief organization to help eliminate hunger, on a global spectrum and has good interaction tools so that you can get a better understanding of what is going on.

http://foodforlifeglobal.blogspot.com/

Is a blog about world hunger. The writer is amazing and is very detailed and has very good insight on the very touchy subject of world hunger.

http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html

This website displays facts and figures about world hunger. It's a great website because it also tries to curb the problem.

http://www.sustainabletable.org/intro/whatis/

Great website for those who don't know what sustainability is and how its beneficial for the world as a whole. Good informational website.

http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/agriculture.cfm?id=main&CFID=2935500&CFTOKEN=92194129

Nice visuals and pictures. A great website for information and how sustainable agriculture may help to save the rainforest.

http://csanr.wsu.edu/

A great website showing what this community is striving for in sustainability. Especially in local and global contexts.

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateG&page=PACA

A website with various resources on fair trade. A good place to go to go and see fair trade regulations.

http://attra.ncat.org/

More information on sustainable agriculture. Various viewpoints and information accessed here.

http://www.fairtradefederation.org/

Here is a quote from the front page that explains it quite well, "The Fair Trade Federation (FTF) is the trade association that strengthens and promotes North American organizations fully committed to fair trade."

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

Fair trade website that promotes the practice. Great because this website is from the United Kingdom.

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/61/fair-trade

A great informational blog type website. Fair trade is explained and promoted here.