Inga tree points to way out of slash-and-burn for Central American farmers

Mongabay
Oct 27, 2021, 4:00 pm232 pts
Like many rural families in Central America, Martín García and his sons devoted part of every growing season to slashing and burning a new strip of their land, knowing that it was the only way to make it fertile enough to yield food for everyone. They couldn’t grow on the land they had used in years past,…

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