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Nature-based solution Inga Tree Model selected as Keeling Curve Prize Finalist for 2022

  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)....

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The search for a sustainable alternative to slash-and-burn agriculture in the World’s rain forests: the Guama Model and its implementation

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...

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3 innovations leading the fight to save our forests

  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...

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Inga tree points to way out of slash-and-burn for Central American farmers

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...

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The Inga Tree Model is featured in the United Nations FAO TECA program – Technologies and Practices for Small Agricultural

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...

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The Inga Tree Model ‘Standing Up to Violent Climate Change’

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...

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Ray C. Anderson Foundation’s NextGen Committee Awards $100,000 to Inga Foundation for 2020

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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2 New Mini-Documentaries (2 mins & 10 mins)

FOLLOW THESE LINKS TO VIEW OUR 2 NEW MINI-DOCUMENTARIES (2-MINUTES & 10-MINUTES)   Inga Tree Short Promo (2-Minutes) Inga Tree Long Promo (10-Minutes)      

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Organic Farming Innovation Award (OFIA) at the 19th Organic World Congress for the “Land for Life” Project

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...

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INGA selected as MIT SOLVER – Proposal Presented Summer 2017

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...

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