Polycultures and Permaculture
Proceedings of the international research and practice conference
Conference was focused on exploring polycultures (simultaneous cultivation of several crops in the same space) as a way to diversify agricultural systems to improve their sustainability, resilience, reduce and environmental impact of agriculture and foster provisioning of agroecological services, increase farm profit and efficiency of arable land utilization. Conference has special emphasis on permaculture which designs resilient functionally assembled systems, where agriculture systems are assembled from multiple plant and animal species with special accent to perennial plants and allocation of wild and unmanaged natural sites on the property.
Proceedings contain abstract, short reports, and the conference resolutions aimed at researchers, growers, and policy makers.