From over 400 applicants, the Inga Tree Model was recognized for avoiding and sequestering CO2 (with integrated benefits of degraded land regeneration, food security, water protection and biodiversity–an organic, bottom-up program for smallholders)....
Michael Hands Published:17 February 2021https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201204 Review history Abstract This account describes the context, history and outcomes of a series of studies into the ecology of slash-and-burn (S-B) agriculture in the world’s humid...
Our forests face an unprecedented set of interconnected challenges. The winners of the UpLink Trillion Trees Challenge, a competition to find the best ideas to save our forests, have been announced. UpLink connects...
by Maxwell Radwin on 27 October 2021 The Inga Foundation has created a sustainable agricultural system that doesn’t deplete nutrients in the soil like slash-and-burn farming does. Alley cropping inga trees has been shown...
Title: The Inga tree model: regenerative agroforestry Id number: 10056 Source: The Inga Foundation Language: English Date of Publication: November 2020 Date of Revision: April 2021 Keywords: Agroforestry, Grassland...
While reducing fossil fuel burning is the main focus for mitigating climate change, lowering carbon emissions from land-use sources gets significantly less attention. For centuries people in tropical regions have relied on slash-and-burn subsistence...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Valerie Bennett, 770.317.5858 valerie@raycandersonfoundation.org Lorraine Potter, 434.841.7240 ingatrees@gmail.com Ray C. Anderson Foundation’s NextGen Committee Awards $100,000 to Inga Foundation Feeding the soil that feeds families on #WorldSoilDay Atlanta, GA,...
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November 2017—Mike Hands is honored with the 3rd Organic Farming Innovation Award (OFIA) at the 19th Organic World Congress in New Delhi, India for the “Land for Life” project. The OWC highlighted Inga alley...
Director Mike Hands was honored to present in Cambridge in May at MIT’s Climate CoLab initiative (a community of 50,000 people from around the world who work together through a series of interrelated contests...