Perennial transitions from market gardening towards mixed fruit tree - vegetable systems

Alice De Lapparent, Rodolphe Sabatier, Raphaël Paut and Sophie Martin

Agricultural Systems, 2023, vol. 207, issue C

Abstract: Planting fruit trees in a market gardening system creates a mixed fruit tree – vegetable system with the potential to address certain environmental issues. However, it results in a complex system where labor has to be allocated between the two activities.

Keywords: Viability theory; Crop diversification; Perennial transition; Mixed horticultural farm; Agroforestry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103635

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