Sidestepping the Climate Change Juggernaut: The potential for staple crop polycultures and passive solar greenhouse systems to safeguard food security
Cora Moran, Aline Castañeda Cadena
Volume 22, Number 1 (2022) 22 (1): 71-99
Keywords Climate change, permaculture, polyculture, greenhouse systems
Abstract
Root vegetable polyculture growing practices used alongside permaculture design inspired passive solar greenhouses offer a novel methodology for ecologically benign, efficient staple food crop production. These systems have great potential to address the issue of food security in the face of abrupt climate change and can serve as a tool for marginalized groups such as indigenous peoples to maintain their food security and preserve their botanical heritage, and, in doing so, safeguard the genetic diversity of rare crop species.
This paper outlines how these systems can be used for these purposes and advocates further research and field study trials to develop practical methodologies and further theoretical understanding of permaculture inspired polycultures.
Cora Moran
Aline Castañeda Cadena
Published June 1, 2022
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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