[permaculture-oceania] Fwd: Circular Economy of the Dyke-Pond System

[Robyn Williamson]

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> Subject: Circular Economy of the Dyke-Pond System
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> ISIS Press Release 09/10/06
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> Circular Economy of the Dyke-Pond System
> **********************************
> Dr. Mae-Wan Ho finds strong allies for her idea on
> sustainable systems as closed cycles modelled on the
> organism (Dream Farm 2 - Story So Far
> http://www.i-sis.org.uk/DreamFarm2.php) during her recent
> visit to China , especially in a land-water farming system
> developed over the past two thousand years
>
> Getting the most from land and water The clouds and mists
> cleared as we prepared to land in Guangzhou, and a
> remarkable landscape came into view. Like a mosaic of silver
> mirrors embedded in emerald, hundreds, if not thousands of
> ponds filled the spaces between the Pearl River tributaries
> as they meandered and fanned out into the South China Sea.
>
> The ponds were predominantly narrow rectangles stacked
> broadside on, with shorter rectangles, squares, and
> irregular shapes pressed into service to fit the topography.
> The main effect was to leave cultivated strips of land and
> the occasional fields between adjacent bodies of water.
>
> The Pearl River Delta of South China, sprawling over 12 000
> km2, is famous for its dyke-pond system of fish farming
> combined with the cultivation of crops [1]. It contains one
> of China’s richest and most densely populated agricultural
> areas, supporting an average of 17 persons per hectare.
>
> The dyke-pond system evolved over the past two thousand
> years, perfected by generations of Chinese farmers into a
> ‘circular’ economy of intensive agriculture integrated with
> the polyculture of carps and other freshwater fishes, on a
> geographic and economic scale unrivalled elsewhere in the
> world. It depends on maximising internal inputs between land
> and water, optimising the efficient use of resources while
> minimising wastes.
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Robyn Williamson
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