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The Permaculture Research Digest has summaries of newly published permaculture-related research. All items are hyper-linked to the original publication.
The 'January 2013' archive contains 60 items published in 2012.
Items marked with a # have restricted public access, although abstracts are freely available.
Traditional agricultural communities manage biodiversity at various
scales, creating dynamic landscape mosaics of fields, gardens and ecosystem patches. Agricultural biodiversity and
associated traditional knowledge are essential to the climate change
resilience of these landscapes, but their roles are overlooked
by researchers and policy makers. A review of 172 case studies from around the world shows that agricultural
biodiversity contributes to resilience through a number of, often
combined, strategies. These
practices are examined to identify indicators of resilience in
agricultural landscapes. The indicators are a first step in the
development of a framework for assessing and building climate change
resilience, intended both for local communities and for the scientists working closely with them.
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