How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon

Mongabay
Dec 9, 2022, 2:22 pm273 pts
NOVA CALIFÓRNIA, Brazil — Hamilton Condack smiles and points to a towering ipê tree rooted in the plot of land where he lives and produces food. “When I first got this place 15 years ago, a guy offered me R$500 [ ] for it,” he said of the ipê, one of the Amazon’s most valuable hardwoods, coveted…

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