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  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Sustainable Agriculture and Common Asset Stewardship Success Stories
  • Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:20:26 -0600


Sustainable Agriculture and Common Asset Stewardship Success Stories

Redefining Progress Media Release

CONTACT: Craig Cheslog
(510) 444-3041 x305
communications AT redefiningprogress.org
www.RedefiningProgress.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Tuesday, October 15, 2002

REDEFINING PROGRESS RELEASES REPORT OUTLINING
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND COMMON ASSET STEWARDSHIP
SUCCESS STORIES

OAKLAND, Calif.--Redefining Progress today released
a report, Sustainable Agriculture and Common Assets:
Stewardship Success Stories, which profiles farmers
who are utilizing sustainable agriculture practices.
These practices provide benefits to farmers and their
communities while also protecting natural common assets
now and into the future.

The report is available for download in pdf format
at http://actionnetwork.org/ct/DpzEMRs1EcF_/sustainag.


The report defines three common assets--natural floodplains,
native pollinators, and the atmosphere--and describes
their links to agricultural practices that help maintain
their health. Linking common assets and sustainable
agriculture creates a conceptual and policy framework
to expand the farmer's "bottom line" by accounting
for currently ignored social and environmental costs
and benefits.

Preserving our common assets can be financially beneficial
to both farmers and society. The report outlines success
stories where farmers practice sustainable agriculture
in ways that preserve a common asset, which in turn
provides greater benefits to nature, the local community,
and the farmers themselves.

The report makes five recommendations for improving
the health of natural common assets and the sustainability
of agriculture. Policymakers at multiple levels of
government, educators, researchers, farmers, and nongovernmental
organizations have important roles to play in this
process. The recommendations include:

1. Research and recognize the value of natural common
assets to farmers--as well as urban and rural communities--and
compensate management practices that improve the health
of these assets.

2. Improve the role of agriculture in the education
system at all levels (university, high school, and
elementary school) and better incorporate sustainable
agriculture into existing agricultural research programs.


3. Reexamine the emphasis on policies that guarantee
cheap food, so that food prices may better reflect
the positive services farms can provide and help farmers
avoid externalizing costs.

4. Experiment and invest in demonstration projects
to illustrate the effectiveness of new management regimes,
which will increase adoption by farmers.

5. Use a systems approach when dealing with the agricultural
sector that encompasses all of the relevant actors
and streamlines solutions.

Redefining Progress is a nonprofit public policy organization
in Oakland, Calif., that advances economic, social,
and environmental sustainability.

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