new grant for sustainable agroforestry

With partners from the Universidade Federal do Pará - INEAF e Oxford Univerisity, and residents of Salvaterra, Brazil,  HECLab was awarded a grant from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. The project "Climate-Resilient Agroforestry in Quilombola Communities of the Brazilian Amazon" will examine the climate challenges for agroforestry homegardens in Brazil’s Amazonian quilombola communities and identify agroecological and socio-political innovations that can effectively address those challenges. The project is a transdisciplinary undertaking in partnership with Vila União/Campina Center for Quilombola Action and Resistance (NARQ) and the Vila União/Campina quilombola community and it emerged following the team's participation in the IAI Tropical Forests in the Americas: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Changing Environments during summer 2024.