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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.
This study characterized plant communities on ten applied permaculture
farms and found that independent adopters consistently implemented
predominately perennial species (73% of species richness), polycultures
(mean 42 crop species per site), and zone design. These practices
resulted in commercial farms characterized by perennialization, crop
diversification, landscape heterogeneity and nature conservation.
Grassroots adopters were remarkably consistent in their interpretation
and application of an unregulated agricultural model suggesting that
such movements may exert considerable influence over local
agroecological transitions.
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