Characteristics Home garden Kitchen garden
- Conservation of unique/rare species
Ecosystem
services
- Habitats for pollinators and associated
biodiversity - Coping with vulnerability by managing
pests and disease - Support nutrient recycling
- Carbon sequestration
- Water and soil retention
- Regulation of local hydrological
processes - Detoxification of noxious chemicals
- Less conducive for pollinators
and associated biodiversity in
the ecosystems (limited
species diversity and use of
pesticides)
- Less conducive for pollinators
Government
focus
- Not a priority area for research and
development- Priority in development
agenda
- Priority in development