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Research Digest

A roundup of Permaculture related research.

A radical critique of PDC pedagogy (#journal)

What’s wrong with permaculture design courses? Brazilian lessons for agroecological movement-building in Canada

Indian permaculture farm has high biodiversity (online)

Gauging the Effects of Sustainable Permaculture: a Biological Index of Sadhana Forest in Auroville, India

52climateactions.com

Breathing life back into The Digest

Breathing life back into The Digest

It would be fair to say that the Permaculture Research Digest has been suffering a period of chronic neglect recently, with only 14 posts made in 2019!

Evaluating the effects of integrating trees into temperate arable systems on pest control and pollination (Journal article)

Free full access to article until 26th October 2019 available here.

Research Monthly Posts

2018 September

Free Liveable Cities Little Books (books)

2018 August

How fast the carbon clock is ticking (online)

2018 June

Permaculture national curriculum in Timor-Leste (online)
Africa can feed itself (video)
Evidence library on sustainable food (online)
Permaculture in resilience research (journal)
Local knowledge in permaculture design (online)
Permaculture's effect on soil carbon and fertility (online)
The real cost of cheap food (book)
Big potential for urban farming
Soil carbon in Scotland (report)
Only a paradigm shift will stop climate change (online)
Peppa Pig makes compost (video)

2018 May

We're all subsidising environmental destruction (online)
Microgreen/mushroom permaculture (journal)
A vision for eco settlements (online)
The urgency of climate action (online)

2018 April

New report sheds light on how UK farming can meet the sustainability challenge
UK farmers who meet the sustainability challenge (report)

2018 March

Key questions for restoring degraded ecosystems (journal)