From vic@daena.eepo.com.auMon Jan 6 11:27:29 1997 Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 10:16:17 WST From: Victor Guest Reply to: PERMA@eepo.com.au To: Permaculture WA Subject: Video linking community & sust. ag (fwd) Here's a message that may be of interest: Community Development Society Cornelia Flora Subject: Video linking community and sustainable agriculture >Video Describes How Sustainable Agriculture >Contributes to Vital Rural Communities >There are many ways to manage change in agriculture, including alternatives >to the "bigger is always better" approach. A video produced by Iowa State >University Extension in cooperation with the Western SARE/ACE Program and >the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, demonstrates how >social capital and community are critical for managing change in >agriculture, as well as how sustainable agriculture contributes to vital >rural communities. > >The video, Social Capital and Sustainability: the Community and Managing >Change in Agriculture, describes the mutual dependency between rural >communities and the surrounding landscape. It explains how changes in the >use of resources such as: reduced federal programs, increased globalization >of markets, advanced information systems, and increased concern for the >environment, alters the landscape and requires changes in human, financial >and social resources within the community. > >Social Capital and Sustainability focuses on the role of sustainable >agricultural systems in managing change in agriculture. Those systems rely >on sharing information, openly discussing problems, learning from past >experiences, envisioning the future, and accepting that each farm will be >different. The video then explains that social capital shares these same >characteristics, and when adapted to communities, the results are usually >positive. > >Copies of Social Capital and Sustainability: The Community and Managing >Change in Agriculture are available for $20 from the Extension Distribution >Center, Iowa State University, 119 Printing and Publications Building, Ames, >IA 50011-3171; (515) 294-5247, (515) 294-2945 fax, >pubdist@exnet.iastate.edu. Please specify publication EDC-88. > > >Cornelia Flora >North Central Regional Center for Rural Development >317 East Hall >Iowa State University >Ames, IA 50011-1070 > >phone 515 294 1329 >fax 515 294 2303 > >cflora@iastate.edu >http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/rdev/RuralDev.html