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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.
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Thursday 21 November 2013
Assessment of compost benefits for farming (#journal)
As compost use in agriculture increases, there is an urgent need to
evaluate the specific environmental benefits and impacts as compared
with other types of fertilizers and soil amendments. This studyreviews the recent
progresses made in the quantification of the positive effects associated
to biowaste compost use on land by using life cycle assessment (LCA). A
total of nine environmental benefits were identified in an extensive
literature review and quantitative figures for each benefit were drawn
and classified into short-, mid-, and long-term.
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