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| Title | Creating Wealth from Waste: Resource Use Efficiency in Climate-Smart Agriculture. Findings from interviews with vermiculture farmers in Ha Tinh Province | | Author | Abigail Smith and Tam Thi Le | | Year | 2017 | | Series Number | August 2017 | | Number of Pages | 7 | | Call Number | PB00149-17 |
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| It is increasingly urgent to support sustainable agroecosystems which optimize symbiotic interactions and productivity. Resources must be used efficiently within the agricultural system to minimize artificial or mix waste components, in addition secreting enzymes and other chemicals which speed up biochemical degradation processes (Sinha et al. 2002). Vermiculture also functions as a worm production system, yielding outputs which can be sold or used as poultry feed. By utilizing the resources already present on the farm and reducing reliance on external inputs, farmers diversify risks. Resource cycling allows for increased stability and resilience in the context of fluctuating market valuations and weather patterns. The creation of a circular farm metabolism is ecologically restorative, and also yields economic returns for the farmers in direct and indirect ways. |
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