Home gardens: a promising approach to enhance household food security and wellbeing

DH Galhena, R Freed, KM Maredia - Agriculture & food security, 2013 - Springer
With the global population expected to reach over 9 billion by 2050, there is a continuous
need to increase food production and buffer stocks. In this scenario, countries around the …

Biodiversity conservation in tropical agroecosystems: a new conservation paradigm

I Perfecto, J Vandermeer - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
It is almost certainly the case that many populations have always existed as
metapopulations, leading to the conclusion that local extinctions are common and normally …

[图书][B] The ecology of tropical East Asia

R Corlett - 2019 - books.google.com
Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …

Quantification of carbon stock and tree diversity of homegardens in a dry zone area of Moneragala district, Sri Lanka

E Mattsson, M Ostwald, SP Nissanka… - Agroforestry …, 2015 - Springer
Homegarden agroforestry systems are suggested to hold a large potential for climate
change mitigation and adaptation. This is due to their multifunctional role in providing …

[PDF][PDF] Political legacy of South Africa affects the plant diversity patterns of urban domestic gardens along a socio-economic gradient

CS Lubbe, SJ Siebert, SS Cilliers - Scientific Research and Essays, 2010 - academia.edu
In recent years domestic gardens in urban areas have been extensively studied, but findings
from developed and developing countries do not always correspond. The disparity is …

Sustainability, energy budgeting, and life cycle assessment of crop-dairy-fish-poultry mixed farming system for coastal lowlands under humid tropic condition of India

V Paramesh, R Parajuli, EB Chakurkar, GB Sreekanth… - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
A study was conducted from 2015 to 2018 to find out the sustainability, profitability, energy
efficiency and environmental impact of crop–livestock-aquaculture integration in west coast …

Distribution of agrobiodiversity in home gardens along the Corrientes River, Peruvian Amazon

M Perrault-Archambault, OT Coomes - Economic Botany, 2008 - Springer
Abstract Distribution of Agrobiodiversity in Home Gardens along the Corrientes River,
Peruvian Amazon. This paper examines crop species diversity in home gardens of …

Home gardens in three mountain regions of the Iberian Peninsula: description, motivation for gardening, and gross financial benefits

V Reyes-García, L Aceituno, S Vila… - Journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Previous research on tropical home gardens stresses their ecological, economic, and social
functions. This article a) describes home gardens (n= 252) in three rural areas of the Iberian …

Dry matter dynamics and CO2 mitigation in the herb layer of Central Himalayan agroecosystems along an altitudinal gradient, India

C Shahi, SS Bargali, K Bargali, Vibhuti - Tropical Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Herbaceous entity plays a significant role in the structural dynamics of natural ecosystems
and its responsibility increased by many times in case of agricultural systems. The present …

Ethnobotanical study of cultivated plants in home gardens of traditional villages in Bali (Indonesia)

W Sujarwo, G Caneva - Human Ecology, 2015 - Springer
Tropical home gardens are important sites for high levels of plant species diversity (Smith
1996; Coomes and Ban 2004). In general, home gardens are characterized by different …