Keeling Curve

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Inga Foundation (IF) is inclusive with a "do no harm" approach, working with the entire family.The model encourages the empowerment of girls/women by establishing a secure family life with safe working plots, near to home and raising income to support access to education for all children. Land tenure and inheritance rights are equal to women in Honduras. All training, planting/first pruning is given without regard to household status. Young people can remain in their rural areas without having to migrate to cities or out of country.We provide assistance for families who don’t have able-bodied members placing boots on the ground to ensure that  alley plots are planted and growing well; and will be pruned when appropriate. After that, plot owners will contract neighbors at annual pruning time and pay them by sharing the firewood. In this way, the system is economically and socially flexible; adaptable to the needs of either gender. The model promotes food sovereignty, local leadership, and sharing of knowledge among indigenous farmers. 
Families bring about the change as they are the ones determining what they will plant (nourishment crops and inter-planting of fruit/and hardwood trees for future income) as they provide the land, labor and care.

Website:

http://www.ingafoundation.org

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To stop shifting agriculture, save the world’s tropical rainforests, and turn the tide of climate change by providing a sustainable, scientifically-proven alternative—Inga alley-cropping. This revolutionary agroforestry system eliminates slash-and-burn, sequestering/avoiding massive amounts of carbon, transforming lives-- replenishing depleted soil, regenerating landscapes, protecting watersheds, and providing sustainable food security—“land for life.”

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