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Table 2 The key benefits of home gardening

From: Home gardens: a promising approach to enhance household food security and wellbeing

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Improved food security

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Increased availability of food and better nutrition through food diversity

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Income and enhanced rural employment through additional or off-season production

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Decreased risk through diversification;

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Environmental benefits from recycling water and waste nutrients, controlling shade, dust and erosion, and maintaining or increasing local biodiversity

  1. Source: Landon-Lane [60].