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  • From: "Steve Read" <steveread@free.fr>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] how many acres per human?
  • Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:25:33 +0100

Hello, Marjory,

Food, Energy and Society, edited by D. Pimentel and M. Pimentel

Mentioned it before and its got quite a lot of figures around this subject.
Also and can't rememeber when there was an article in New Scientist
where anthropologists discussed the overlapped stacking into a given area by
several peoples where their food strategies and culture were setup so that
each utilised the environment in a different way, avoiding competition.
Unfortunatly the cultural side seemed to have hardened in the tribes studied
into considering your tribe human and the others, who had "bizarre foods and
ways" were not.

SteveR
======= At 2009-02-25, 21:24:05 you wrote: =======

>Hello Everyone,
>
>I am wondering if anyone knows of research into how many acres of land
>in a particular bio-region are needed to support a human in a hunter
>gatherer type lifestyle. For example, how many acres would you need in
>the Edwards Plateau country to support a human foraging on prickly pear,
>rabbits, deer, etc. Chihuahua desert? Sierra Nevada Fir Forests?
>Pacific NW Douglas Fir forests areas? NJ Pine Barrens? Eastern
>Decidous Hickery/Oak? Anywhere the ecology has been fairly well defined.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Marjory
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Best regards.
Steve Read
steveread@free.fr
2009-02-26







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