Walking in the middle of his cacao plantations in Bahia, Ernst gives us a practical lesson about natural succession and explains how we can “read” the indicators the ecosystem presents to us. The suitability of species at each successional step is one of the foundations for the composition of a consortium in Syntropic Farming.
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