Contributing more carbon emissions than global transportation, slash-and-burn farming is one of the greatest forces in rainforest destruction. Mike Hands is a tropical ecologist from England, who has developed a sustainable agricultural system known as Inga Alley Cropping, which he, together with research assistant Lindsay Leyden, join us to discuss.

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