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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.
In industrialized countries, innovative farmers inspired by permaculture claim to design market gardens only based on manual
labor. A case study shows
that these market gardeners implemented a wide range of strategies
embracing ecological, technical and commercial dimensions to increase
their production and its value. On a cultivated acreage of 1061m2, they created a
monthly net income between 882€ and 2058€. These incomes were generated with an average
workload of 43h per week. Such economic performances demonstrated that
these initiatives can be viable. Further
investigation should be carried out about the way manual and motorized
market gardeners can collaborate to build together a satisfying
commercial offer.
Research here - https://web.archive.org/web/20151130193236/http://www.fermedubec.com/inra/Morel_guegan_leger_acta_horticulturae.pdf
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