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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.
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Tuesday 20 August 2013
Organic farming improves developing world livelihoods (#journal)
Organic agriculture initiatives have been
common in the tropics for decades, but surprisingly few data are
available on their performance. This synthesis examined 31 documented
cases of African and Latin American farmers converting from conventional
or organic-by-default systems to ORCA that assessed their impact on
livelihoods. Yield improved in 19 of 25 cases,
food security improved in seven of eight cases, and net income improved
in 19 of 23 cases. However, it is not possible to generalize from these
results due to the small sample, selection bias and inconsistent methods
and definitions across the cases.
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