Author: Issy

  After the Amazon, the Congo Basin is the largest remaining expanse of tropical wilderness in the world – and it is also one of the most threatened. Our Director Mike Hands has just...

This is what success looks like – In this Inga plot the harvest continues to improve year on year. When we last visited, the farmer excitedly showed us how the soil in places is...

Local farmer Marcos recently introduced us to his brother and helped us convince him to take up Inga too, and the 2 of them are now getting their young cousin involved to ensure when...

Thank you to the team at the Eden Project who today planted out an area of Inga alleys in their Tropical Biome to give their visitors the chance to see alley cropping first hand...

The field immediately beside Aladino’s Inga plot is choked in head-high invasive grasses that make achieving any kind of harvest a constant struggle. Just 3 short years ago Aladino’s plot looked identical to this...

Alejandro, the local farmer who owns this plot, is right now busy creating a tree nursery full of Inga and coffee seedlings. Give it 2 years and this area will be nearly unrecognisable, covered...

Cooking up a sustainable supper – Every household here needs firewood to cook and acquiring it often carries heavy costs – either financially if families have to buy it or in terms of time...

Once you clear the forest here, its only a matter of time before any streams or water sources disappear too – which is why Marcos is carefully tending these 4000 germinating Inga seeds which...

Alejandro, the local farmer who owns this plot, is right now busy creating a tree nursery full of Inga and coffee seedlings. Give it 2 years and this area will be nearly unrecognisable, covered...

When Hurricane Mitch struck it completely destroyed this bridge, along with nearly every other bridge in the country. For Honduras the only real defense against this kind of disaster is the flood control the...