'Everything has its own order and purpose': The rainforest 'farms' defying modern agriculture ^15.6%

BBC - By María Paula Rubiano A. - 6/18/2026, 10:00 AM

Appeal to Authority 20.8% - Negativity Bias 17% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 13.1%

To the untrained eye, the area of the rainforest that Kelly Johanna Yucuna tends may look as if someone had carelessly thrown seeds onto the ground. But that's far from the reality. In her small plot deep in the Colombian Amazon, everything from site selection to the location of each plant has an order and a purpose. This is the chagra... more