Slash-and-burn agriculture is destroying forests, accelerating climate change, and putting the livelihoods of subsistence farmers at risk. It releases more carbon emissions than all air and road travel combined, wipes out wildlife habitats, and leaves families dependent on fragile, short-term harvests.

Using the powerful documentary Up in Smoke as a starting point for community outreach, this project supports farming communities to break this cycle. Working on the ground with the Inga Foundation, subsistence farmers are supported to transition to organic, forest-friendly alternatives to slash-and-burn farming.

These methods protect forests while restoring soil, increasing yields, and producing more valuable, even organic, crops. For that farmers, this secures stable food sources and a future that does not depend on destroying the land they rely on to sustain their family.