The Amazon is burning. The question: why? The answer: profit. We burn the forest for farmland because we think it will generate revenue. The land gets depleted before any real profit is made. We burn Read more…
Fortifying its scientific foundation, reNature is growing in many ways – also with the help of others. We are excited to announce our new partnership with Embrapa! Embrapa is Brazil’s most renown agricultural research center. Read more…
The UN classifies half of the world’s farmland as degraded. Combine expanding populations, limited land resources and erratic weather patterns, and you have the perfect storm to undermine food security. It’s what the latest IPCC Read more…
Introduction Cocoa, bananas, coffee, mangos, and pepper… When talking agroforestry, we tend to think about lush tropical systems in the global South and around the equator. As do I, many of you might not live Read more…
An inspirational journey to learn about dynamic agroforestry: the future of regenerative agriculture. Introduction For Dutch Verstegen, reNature developed an Agroforestry white pepper system, designed in partnership with Preta Terra. It is efficient, productive and Read more…
Week 7: April 20th-27th. Bangka White Pepper Agroforestry This week, it was my turn to join the team at the white pepper farm on Bangka Island and follow the workshop by Krisna Putra Waworuntu. As a Read more…
Report Week 3 & 4, March 30-April 12 , Bangka White Pepper Agroforestry We got too excited working hard on the implementation of our system that we ended up forgetting about the basics. As mentioned Read more…
Week 2: March 23th-29th. Bangka White Pepper Agroforestry Weeks are flying by for the Bangka Changemakers and the agroforestry system is already taking shape! Soil preparation and land management The first step into an Agroforestry implementation Read more…
I wrote a blog about the Den Food Bosch research and showcase food forest about a year ago. Since then a lot of time has passed and I was curious to hear exactly how it Read more…
Week 1: March 18th-22nd. Bangka White Pepper Agroforestry Already the first week into the project, we are moving fast with the system implementation, touched by the kindness of Indonesian people of Bangka and eating more dragon Read more…
