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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.
Agroecology
presents an alternative paradigm of production based on ecological
principles such as recycling wastes, minimizing energy and water use,
maximizing genetic diversity, regenerating soil and increasing its
carbon content, integrating livestock and crops into a holistic
system, and promoting other beneficial biological synergies.
Moreover, agroecological methods have the potential to actually boost
production and farm incomes, particularly in the global South.
Permaculture, perhaps the most widely practiced form of agroecology,
also provides an ethical framework and principles that serve as a
basis for discerning actions that enable the design of diverse,
sustainable systems suited to a wide variety of cultural and
ecological contexts.
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