Agriculture strategies that are profitable, environmentally sound, and supportive to communities. Sustainable development ‘meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ (1987 UN Convention on Environment and Development). Despite this confident definition, Fish et al. (2006) TGJ 172, 3, 183 note that ‘sustainability, it is often claimed, is a nebulous and slippery resource for thought and practice, one able to marshal together a range of competing, and indeed contradictory, narratives about society–nature relations’. However, India’s Centre for Sustainable Agriculture is much more confident and outlines a number of strategies.

http://www.csa-india.org/ Website of Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, India.