EP. 1607: Filmmaker Adam Wakeling (The Inga Tree Model 2025)
The Inga Tree Model 2025, 10min., Honduras
Directed by Adam Wakeling
The Inga Alley-Cropping pilot is in year 13 in rural, northern Honduras and has impressive results for carbon sequestered and avoided--876,000 tons in 12 years--trained and assisted by an all-Honduran team, 500 smallholder families have planted over 3 million native, nitrogen-fixing trees on steep, highly degraded land. The clearing/burning stops when a family plants their alley (a process that destroys 200,000 acres a day).
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