The Understory Dispatches, portraits & argument

Beneath the
canopy.

In an agroforest, the understory is the layer doing the quiet work. This is writing from there—what farmers, Change Makers and the field team are seeing, season by season.

Umar laughing while sitting on a fallen log among the young trees and pepper vines he has planted

Essay

Why Kelekak is not a new idea

Restoration in Bangka Belitung does not need to be introduced. It needs to be made viable again.

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The aGROWforests field team and community members gathered outside a Rumah Tani farmer house

Explainer

What a spice hub actually does

Thirteen hubs across two provinces. Each one is a nursery, a classroom, a consultation desk, and the room where the farmer group meets the buyer.