Sustainability and agroforestry are not limited to forests, fields and food. That’s why we are working together with FarFarm to create sustainable, natural fibers for clothing with Textile Agroforestry. Felipe and Beto (FarFarm) discussed opportunities Read more…
From Carbon Emissions to Soil Regeneration John D. Liu is a news producer/cameraman turned ecological researcher. After discovering his passion for the environment, he now focuses on the topics of ecology, climate change, integrated poverty Read more…
Severe storms and heavy rainfalls are threatening small islands worldwide due to the climate change. It’s time for us to take action to prove that we can create a more climate smart agricultural system. Resilience Read more…
What exactly is a food forest? It sounded like a hipster vegan restaurant to me at first. Turns out I was far off. Instead, a food forest has sustainable agriculture as its goal; mimicking natural Read more…
To learn you have to practice also counts for agroforestry. That’s why reNature and Espaço dos Sonhos organized an agroforestry workshop. Starting from scratch and only three days later the land was transformed and a Read more…
Indigenous communities in the Atlantic Rainforest used to live in symbioses with nature, depending on natural resources, careless of setting up a productive system of any kind. They knew that the balance of nature would Read more…
Last week, me, Geoffrey and Marc visited the most organised Agroforestry in Brazil. The farm, Fazenda Ouro Fino, is owned by Henrique Sousa, an agronomist who has always been implementing Agroforestry Systems for many years. Read more…
This November I visited Joseph Lentenyoi’s permaculture farm, the Laikipia Permaculture Centre, Kenya. The 2-hour visit was short but life changing. The moment I stepped out of the car I felt the energy of the Read more…
You might think rain does not care about where it falls. I was under the impression that it just falls when the clouds are too dense and packed with water. Now I discovered that there’s Read more…
Restoring nature goes beyond improving bananas and cacao production, agroforestry systems can also be used to revolutionise the textile industry. Today natural fibers like cotton are mass-produced. Cotton is mostly grown in monoculture and is Read more…