Inga Foundation | Our Projects in Honduras

The Cuero Valley, Honduras

June 24, 2012

This is a 10-year program which aims to support up to 200 families in the Cuero Valley area to give up the practice of slash and burn and switch to sustainable agriculture using Inga alley cropping, improving their food security and livelihoods in the process. We will do this through working with each family to implement the flexible Guama Model for Inga alley cropping in the way which best meets the individual needs of each family. At present...

The Cangrejal, Honduras

May 28, 2012

Like the Cuero Valley, the other main area of Honduras in which we work, the Cangrejal is also located within the buffer zone of the Pico Bonito National Park. It is therefore vital that further destruction of the rainforest in this area is prevented, in order to protect the rich biodiversity of the Park, as well as the hugely important ecosystem services it provides, which includes maintaining the flow of many of the area’s rivers. We are working to support the local...

CURLA Demo Center, Honduras

February 2, 2012

In 1996 we planted 2 hectares of alley cropping research plots containing 6 Inga species at the Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Atlantico (CURLA), in La Ceiba. From this time on CURLA has served as our demonstration center, allowing us to showcase our techniques in practice. Being right in the city, it is ideally placed to play this role as it is much more easily accessible than the plots of the farmers we working with in the mountains in the Cuero Valley. Restoring the Demonstration Plots The alley cropping plots have been largely neglected since 2002, meaning many...