Soil
Hortense Spillars interview with Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira Da Silva
Audio Transcript
Diana Travassos Alves discusses Terra Preta: anthropogenic soils which are spread out over the Amazon. This type of dark, fertile soil results from millennia of interaction of native Amazonian peoples with the environment and is a legacy of their lives and culture.
Newton Falcone, an academic studying soil fertility and plant nutrition talks about his research and work with Terra Preta; ‘Amazonian dark earth’.