Indian village banks on tree mortgages in bid to go carbon-neutral
P. K. Madhavan stood proudly next to a young, sturdy mahogany tree, one of 100 he planted three years ago on his farm in Wayanad district in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Madhavan’s two acres (0.8 hectares) of land in Meenangadi village used to be lush with cash crops — coffee, black pepper and … Read more