An Assessment of Health and Sustainability of a Smallholder-Dominated Tropical Highlands Ecosystem - Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - page 189

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Key

Numbered points = Categories with highest inertia change: 3 (Available labor/acre =
H), 35 (Cost/inputs of food crops = E), 35 (Cost/inputs of food crops = L), 80 (Hospital-
izations = H), 89 (Income/acre of food crops = E), 89 (Income/acre of food crops = L),
96 (Kale yield = L), 122 (Per capita income = E) and 136 (Profitability = E)

fIGuRe 7.6 Change in inertia of categories of the researcher-proposed land-use unit
(LUU)-level indicators along multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) dimension 3 between
January 1999 (DIM3R1) and January 2000 (DIM3R2).

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Dim 19

fIGuRe 7.7 Scatterplot of dimension 15 against dimension 19 showing change in inertia of
categories between January 1999 and January 2000. See CD for color image and key.

in the production of tea and other crops due to improved farming techniques, even-
tually leading to improved nutrition and incomes. Farm labor shortage and increas-
ing vermin population were seen as potential negative outcomes. In Thiririka, the