The Essential Agrarian Reader by Norman Wirzba

Author:Norman Wirzba
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2003-04-13T04:00:00+00:00

• Indigenous farmers of the Andes grow more than three thousand varieties of potato.

• In Papua New Guinea, as many as five thousand varieties of sweet potato are under cultivation, with more than twenty varieties grown in a single garden.

• In Java, small farmers cultivate 607 species in their home gardens, with an overall species diversity comparable to a deciduous tropical forest.

• In sub-Saharan Africa, women cultivate as many as 120 different plants in the spaces left alongside the cash crops.

• A single home garden in Thailand has more than 230 species.

• African home gardens have more than 60 species of trees.

• Rural families in the Congo eat leaves from more than 50 different species of trees.

• A study in eastern Nigeria found that home gardens occupying only 2 percent of a household’s farmland account for half of the farm’s total output.

• Home gardens in Indonesia are estimated to provide more than 20 percent of household income and 40 percent of domestic food supplies.

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