The Inga Foundation
About this Organization
The Inga Foundation's "Land for Life" Program in Honduras stops slash-and-burn agriculture and turns the tide of tropical rainforest destruction by providing subsistence farming families in the humid tropics a sustainable, proven alternative-Inga alley-cropping. By density planting native Inga - a nitrogen-fixing tree genus - in hedgerows along the contours of steep, degraded land, with crops planted between the rows, this simple, yet revolutionary, nature-based agroforestry system stabilizes, replenishes, and enriches depleted soil, restores and regenerates landscapes, and transforms lives. This regenerative, organic system becomes a fully-integrated ecosystem that completely eliminates a family's dependence on clearing/burning, ensures total food security, and provides "land for life," the ability to remain on the same plot of land indefinitely, while reducing global carbon emissions, protecting wildlife and marine habitats, and preserving water sources.