Author: Issy

Just another day in the office for our Honduran Project Director as he pauses to take a business call deep in the rainforest in the Cangrajal valley – local people and other organisations are...

Meet the charismatic Don Santiago – a local farmer and beekeeper who is planting Inga alleys for the sake of his bees. The inventive Santiago may be the first to do this, but with...

Here’s our very own Luis in the beautiful ‘forest’ of coffee and Inga that he has created on his own farm. Above is a canopy of Inga trees, and below are hundreds of coffee...

Perhaps we should add to the Inga tree’s already impressive list of abilities, the way it can keep the kids happily distracted while we explain the concept of alley cropping to their parents. Inga...

The path up to this La Muralla passes field after field of slashed and burnt land just like this. But local farmer Pablo planting his land with Inga seedlings has already generated quite a...

Believe it or not, this is a freshly planted pasture field. Apparently cows can manage to walk up slopes this steep but they do sometimes slip and fall to their deaths. With farmers forced...

We really need a second vehicle so we can get out and support the all the farmers taking up Inga in the many communities where we work. Really we need the funds to buy...

Just as you can see Inga as the slash & burn farmer’s version of a pension plan, you can also view it as creating an inheritance. Slashed and burnt land only becomes more degraded...

Lovely bubbly Carla, one of the young people from Las Mangas community who came to help us with our work today, injecting some extra enthusiasm and giving her opinion on Inga alley cropping.

Sat beside a stack of Inga firewood and overlooking Faustino’s healthy Inga-grown maize crop – the perfect place to discuss all the reasons to switch from slash and burn to sustainable alley cropping.