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Agroecology Issue Team |
Research team created in 1990 by the Leopold Center to study riparian buffer systems; operates the national Bear Creek Watershed demonstration |
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Agricultural Systems
Initiative |
A 2004 research and extension initiative within the
ISU College of Agriculture that focuses on
improvement of Iowa's soil and water resources |
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Beginning Farmer Center |
Education, programs and services for beginning
farmers and for farm transitions |
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College of Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture
Resources |
Web page list of ISU resources for learning,
discovery and practice of sustainable agriculture
|
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Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture
|
Interdisciplinary M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in
sustainable agriculture |
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Heenah Mayah Student Organic Farm
|
Student-led learning center and working farm |
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Henry A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable
Agriculture |
Established in 1997 to promote the philosophical and
practical ideas of Henry A. Wallace |
| Hoop Group |
Leopold Center research initiative created in 1998 to study hooped structures for swine production; work continues for swine and other uses |
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Organic ag laboratory |
Research and extension activities, operated jointly
by the departments of horticulture and agronomy |
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Sustainable Ag Colloquium |
Weekly programs during the school semester on
various sustainable agriculture topics |
|
Pork Niche Market Working Group |
University/business/producer collaborative for
development of highly differentiated pork value
chains |
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Regional Food Systems Working Group |
University/business/producer collaborative to
increase investment of economically sustainable,
community-based, and environmentally and socially
responsible regional food enterprises |
|
Sustainable Agriculture Extension
|
Provides information, training and programs
supporting sustainable agriculture |
|
Value Chain Partnerships for a Sustainable Agriculture |
Food systems collaborative funded by the Henry A.
Wallace Center at Winrock International and administered by the Leopold
Center |
|
Ag Stewardship Center |
Facility on the campus of Dordt College designed to
provide hands-on experience for students to become
servant-leaders in agriculture |
|
Center for Prairie Studies |
Located at Grinnell College,
this interdisciplinary program seeks to increase
awareness, appreciation, and understanding of the
North American Prairie |
|
Iowa Food Policy Council |
Created in May 2000 by
Iowa Governor Vilsack to address issues concerning
Iowa's food system; located at the Agricultural Law
Center at Drake University |
|
Iowa Network for Community Agriculture
|
Promotes relationships
among people who are developing sustainable, local
food sources that are safe and healthy for people,
all creatures and the land |
|
Practical Farmers of Iowa |
Promotes farming
systems that are profitable, ecologically sound, and
good for families and communities; located in Ames,
Iowa |
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Sustainable & Entrepreneurial Agriculture Program
at Marshalltown Community College
|
A two-year degree program that
offers practical knowledge and hands-on experience
in local food production, environmental stewardship
and small business planning |
|
UNI Local Food Project |
Strengthens the local
food economy by linking
institutional food
buyers to nearby farms
and processors in
northeast Iowa
|
|
Women, Food
and Agriculture Network |
Linking and amplifying women's voices
on issues of food systems,
sustainable communities, and environmental integrity
|
Whiterock Conservancy
|
This contiguous, 4,300-acre
track of conservation and recreation land near Coon
Rapids, Iowa is designed as an economically diverse
and sustainable rural landscape. |
|
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
(SARE) |
USDA initiative
first funded in 1988 that sponsors competitive
grants for sustainable agriculture research and
education in a regional process |
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Sustainable Agriculture Network
|
Communications
and outreach arm of the SARE program |
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North Central Region SARE |
Based in
Lincoln, Nebraska |
|
Northeast Region SARE |
Based in
Burlington, Vermont |
|
Southern Region SARE |
Based in
Griffin, Georgia |
|
Western Region SARE |
Based in Logan,
Utah |
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Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
|
Located at the
National Agricultural Library |
|
National Organic Program |
Operated by the
USDA |
|
Small Farms@USDA |
Web-based guide
to resources, benefits and services offered by the
USDA for small farmers |
|
Natural Resources
Conservation Service |
USDA program
that implements conservation programs and activities
to improve natural resources and the environment |
|
Natural
Resources Conservation Service - Iowa office |
State
conservationist is in Des Moines |
|
National Center for Appropriate Technology
|
Operates
publicly-funded projects that promote self-reliance
through wise use of appropriate technology, and a
partner in the AATRA National Sustainable
Agriculture Information Service |
|
ATTRA National Sustainable Agriculture Information
Service |
Provides information
and other technical assistance to farmers, ranchers,
Extension agents, educators and others involved in
sustainable agriculture in the United States
|
|
Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) |
Established in
1994 by North Carolina State University, North
Carolina A&T State University and the North Carolina
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. |
|
Center for Rural Affairs |
Coordinated research and information efforts to enhance the quality of life of rural residents of the Northern Plains, located in
Lyons, Nebraska
|
|
Healthy Farmer, Healthy Profits |
Links to labor-saving and efficient tools for small
farmers. |
|
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
Promotes resilient
family farms, rural communities and ecosystems
around the world through research and education,
science and technology and advocacy; located in
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
|
Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
|
Encourages the
development of sustainable food and farming systems;
located in Poteau, Oklahoma |
|
Land Stewardship Project |
Fosters an ethic of
stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable
agriculture and to develop sustainable communities;
located in Minnesota |
|
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
|
Cultivates the
ecological, social, economic, and spiritual vitality
of food and farming systems through education,
research, policy and market development; located in
East Troy, Wisconsin |
|
Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service
(MOSES) |
Sponsor of the Upper
Midwest Organic Farming Conference and Organic
University; located in Spring Valley, Wisconsin |
|
Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group |
A coalition of
individuals and farm, food, rural, religious and
conservation groups organized in 1988 |
|
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture |
Grassroots alliance that promotes federal
agricultural policies promote federal agriculture
policies that support sound environmental
stewardship and agriculture based economic
development that is good for farm and ranch families
and their communities |
|
Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society
|
Promoting agriculture and food systems that build
healthy land, people, communities and quality of
life; located in Steinauer, Nebraska |
|
Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society |
Grassroots educational
organization committed to the development of a
sustainable society through the promotion of
ecologically and socially sound food production and
distribution systems in the Northern Plains; located
in Fullerton, North Dakota |
|
Organic Farming Research Foundation
|
Sponsors research that
will lead to the improvement and widespread adoption
of organic farming practices; located in Santa Cruz,
California |
|
Pennsylvania
Association for Sustainable Agriculture |
Promoting
profitable farms which produce healthy food for all
people while respecting the natural environment |
|
The Land Institute |
Develops an
agricultural system with the ecological stability of
the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that
from annual crops; located in Salina, Kansas
|
|
The Land Connection |
Founded in 2001 in Evanston, Illinois, this
nonprofit preserves farmland from development,
offers farmer training and connects consumers with
locally grown produce through its Farm Direct
program |
|
Winrock International/Wallace Center |
Research, training, policy analysis and institutional development to improve agricultural productivity, sustainability and income in developing countries |
