Farm Policies and the Sustainability of Agriculture: Rethinking the Connections
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Past farm policies have not encouraged a sustainable
agriculture in the U. S. However, the 1985 and 1990 farm bills
began to move in a more supportive direction, and the Clinton
Administration has promised a new commitment to sustainability.
There are several reasons why past policies have not fostered
sustainability, such as prevailing beliefs and values of our
society, resistance from the conventional agriculture community,
different meanings of sustainability and ways to achieve it, and
lack of facts and information about it. Time, new knowledge, and
understanding are now lowering many of these barriers. But full
support for a sustainable agriculture could await fundamental
changes in the beliefs and values of our society which now run
counter to the meaning of sustainability.