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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"perennial polyculture"”.
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Effects of Local Plant Neighborhood on Plant Herbivory in Perennial Polyculture Cropping Systems
Perennializing grain cropping systems has been proposed as a way to mitigate the challenges facing agriculture in the future due to crop intensification. Crop intensification is characterized by utilizing more land and inputs, less crop diversity, and greater crop density. Perennial cropping …
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Permaculture as farming practice and international grassroots network: a multidisciplinary study
… literature; (2) distinctive approaches to perennial polyculture, water management, and agroecosystem configuration suggest promising avenues of inquiry; (3) discussions of practice consistently underplay the complexity, challenges, and risks that producers face in developing diversified and …
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The growth and productivity of ribes nigrum under various levels of shade and the implications for multifunctional woody polycultures
… systems for agricultural production focusing on polycultures of perennial crops, a major gap in research is found in the understory layers of these systems. The understory is a unique habitat with intense plant competition for nutrients and water, and most importantly, light. While much is known …
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Developing resilience through local food
<p>Using resilience from the perspective of the two-book series on the subject by Brian Walker and David Salt, the following is an illustration of how the conventional food system, in the way its production is disconnected from the local environment and the people it serves, creates instability and …