{"id":192316,"date":"2024-07-04T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/permaculture-found-to-be-a-sustainable-alternative-to-conventional-agriculture"},"modified":"2024-07-04T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:24:33","slug":"permaculture-found-to-be-a-sustainable-alternative-to-conventional-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/permaculture-found-to-be-a-sustainable-alternative-to-conventional-agriculture","title":{"rendered":"Permaculture found to be a sustainable alternative to conventional agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/permaculture-found-to-be-a-sustainable-alternative-to-conventional-agriculture3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau has shown for the first time, in a joint study with BOKU University, that permaculture brings about a significant improvement in biodiversity, soil quality and carbon storage.<\/p>\n<p>In view of the challenges of climate change and species extinction, this type of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/agriculture\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">agriculture<\/a> proved to be a real alternative to conventional cultivation\u2014and reconcile <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/environmental+protection\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environmental protection<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high+yields\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high yields<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Permaculture uses natural cycles and ecosystems as blueprint. Food is produced in an agricultural ecosystem that is as self-regulating, natural and diverse as possible. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/livestock+farming\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">livestock farming<\/a> is integrated into the cultivation of crops or the diversity of beneficial organisms is promoted in order to avoid the use of mineral fertilizers or pesticides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau has shown for the first time, in a joint study with BOKU University, that permaculture brings about a significant improvement in biodiversity, soil quality and carbon storage. In view of the challenges of climate change and species extinction, this type of agriculture proved to be a real alternative to conventional cultivation\u2014and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-existential-risks","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}