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Using regenerative agriculture to heal the land and help communities

Louise Hunt

November 12, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Indonesia, Central Kalimantan

Kaleka's regenerative agriculture trials with 220+ smallholders in Indonesia replaced chemical inputs with organic fertilizers and introduced agroforestry methods, resulting in measurable soil health improvements (increased earthworms, reduced acidity, better water quality) and cost reductions for farmers, while demonstrating a potential pathway for sustainable palm oil production that could help resolve conflicts between Indigenous land rights and no-deforestation certification requirements.

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Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo

Louise Hunt

July 26, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Malaysia

In October 2020, the Rhino and Forest Fund in Malaysian Borneo began to buy land once cleared for oil palm plantations, and reforests and rehabilitates the tracts into wildlife corridors. After replanting 40 tree species in the last 3 years, an increase in several threatened species has been documented traveling through the project sites.

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