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Question

Are there studies analysing the total system accounting during the period of transition from conventional methods to permaculture methods as shown in the 1.5 animation? I've seen the white paper from Rodale on their regenerative model compared to "traditional" farming but that presents more of a before and after, not a presentation of the transition itself.

Key Takeaways

It is a good idea to become comfortable with the fact that you are always studying and refining healthy systems. The studies will never finish. For a collection of transition data, we’d have to pick a specific facet: a large cattle farm, a square-meter of balcony garden, an aquaculture pond. But, of course, this is only part of a permaculture system. Consequently, in large systems, the transition could be quite difficult to quantify.

The location would also be very important. Efficiency is much higher in urban agriculture and perimeter urban agriculture. Beyond that, there are large blocks of land that might work for grazing pasture and forest but also a lot of that land, due to things like slope, simply works better as wildlands.

We have to think of efficiency as idea that accounts for the amount of work over production time.

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