What is it about?
Compares energy flows between the household productive system and their backyard production. Household that practice subsistence agriculture utilize and consume the energy produced within the system. Households that practice agriculture as a business have less sustainable gardens: they depend on outside energy, more energy exits the system and they have less variable gardens.
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Why is it important?
The paper shows that traditional subsistence agriculture is more efficient than modern strategies and much more sustainable.
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This page is a summary of: Home Garden Production and Energetic Sustainability in Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico, Human Ecology, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-007-9151-4.
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