Definitions of sustainability (sustainable growth in agricultural production: poetry, policy, and science); Sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation links and conditioning factors (environmental consequences of agricultural growth, the links between sustainable agricultural growth and poverty, the links between agricultural growth, environmental degradation, and nutrition and health: implications for policy and research); Role of policy in making sustainability, growth, poverty alleviation complementary (the relationship between trade and environment, with special reference to agriculture, international development assistance for sustainable agricultural growth, agricultural sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation: issues and policies, effects of policy on productivity-and conservation-focused investments at the household level in developing countries: avenues of impact and research issues, imported interest-rate, technology and farm prices versus "endogenous" conservation incentives and policies); The roles of demographic, institutional, and climatic factors (accelerated resource degradation by third world agriculture: the role of population change and responses to it, institutions and technological change, long-run global change: implications for agricultural sustainability); Sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation the humid and subhumid tropics (agricultural growth and sustainability: conditions for their compatibility in the humid and subhumid tropics of Africa, agriculture-environment-poverty interactions in the southeast asian humid tropics, agricultural growth, sustainability, and poverty alleviation in the Brazilian Amazon, agricultural sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation in the Indian semi-arid tropics); Sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation the semi-arid tropics (prospects for pastoralism in semi-arid Africa, agricultural growth and sustainability-prospects for semi-arid west Africa, agricultural growth and sustainability: conditions for their compatibility in the rainfed production systems of west Asia and north Africa); Sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation the tropical highlands and hillsides (agricultural growth and sustainability: perspectives and experiences from Himalayas, agricultural growth and sustainability: conditions for their compatibility in the tropical east Africa highlands, a new approach to poverty alleviation and sustainability in the dry tropical hillsides of central america: a Guatemalan case study).