Permaculture, Final Capstone Paper 5-26, Hope - Never Ending Food

EXPOSURE TO PERMACULTURE
Exposure to Permaculture was measured by several dummy variables. Participants
whose only exposure to Permaculture is through living within 5 km of a demonstration plot were
measured using the dummy variable live_exposure; there are 11 such participants. Four
participants fall under the category work_exposure measured as a dummy variable for those
participants who work at a demonstration plot. Certificate_exposure accounts for the 7
participants who received their introduction to Permaculture via a training/certificate course and
both_exposure is a dummy variable where 1 indicates that the participant both works at a
demonstration plot and holds a certificate. There are 3 participants who work at a demonstration
plot, hold a design certificate and live within a 5 kilometer radius of a demo plot. Twenty five of
27 participants live within a 5 kilometer distance from the demonstration plot which first
exposed them to Permaculture.
All of the participants in the Kanengo region have been part of a social group at the
demonstration plot. The main focus of the groups is to promote nutrition within the community
by educating young mothers about how to care for their children. The group is entirely run by
local women and has never received external funding or support. The qualitative interviews
revealed that at some point Permaculture was introduced as one focus of the meetings. During
the design phase of the research, it was not known that such meetings existed and therefore
Permaculture exposure of Kanengo participants has been placed in the category live_exposure.
II. ADOPTION
FARMER CHARACTERISTICS
In order to answer the overarching research question: “What are the characteristics of
Permaculture adopters?”, the characteristic variables have been disaggregated by adoption
category. Adoption groups were determined after calculating the adoption scores, which showed
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