found: Alternative agriculture, 1989(Committee on the Role of Alternative Farming Methods in Modern Production Agriculture, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council; alternative farming systems) p. 27 (Alternative agriculture is any system of food or fiber production that systematically pursues the following goals: More thorough incorporation of natural processes ...; Reduction in the use of off-farm inputs with ... potential to harm the environment ...; Greater productive use of the biological and genetic potential of plant and animal species; Improvement ... to ensure long-term sustainability ...; and Profitable and efficient production ...)
found: LC data base, 2/9/90(alternative agricultural systems, alternative methods of agriculture, alternative agriculture systems, alternative agriculture, alternative/appropriate technologies in agriculture)
found: Letter from F. Pohl, Mann Library, 3/27/90, and phone call to J. Maclean, NAL, 4/5/90(related heading: Sustainable agriculture)
notfound: Web. 3;Random House;Black's agric. dict.;Biol. & agr. index: v. 42, v. 74, no. 11