Social Impacts
Resilience Hubs:
Increased Resilience of Food Systems
Implementation of these integrated resilient agriculture practices supports fully local food production. This improves independent food security, circular economies, and decreases reliance on imported food.
Agroecological Practices Support Health & Production Value
These practices rapidly build soil organic matter and biodiversity, increase and diversify farm income, and improve ease of management by increasing the efficiency of water and fertilizer use.
Managing the forest with agroforestry techniques.
Agroforestry is an ancient approach to farming combined with scientific practices, largely focused on the best application of design working in harmony with native cover crops.
Multi-story cropping practice to diversify growth.
Soils here are heavily eroded & impacted. Locally specific cover crop planting design is helping these soils recover. Adding organic matter & fish hydrolysate further support soil health.
Clearing overgrowth and restoring soils.
Previously machine cleared soil has critical topsoil missing. Grasses can thrive while breadfruit trees struggle. Reviving this area will permit breadfruit to thrive.
Managing crop cover layout.
Cover crop layout & design needs to be well-suited to specific landscapes. Building raised beds, planting orchards, & intercropping quickly cycling produce is restoring balance.
Landscape recovery.
This landscape is recovering from use as an illegal landfill. It is being restored as farmland. Managing water flow through drainage and strategic retention will help this land recover.