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From the Ted Talk by Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest

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So the idea is: how to integrate these folws in space, over time and with the limited means you have. So we plant the trees, we plant these pineapples and beans and ginger in between, to rdecue the ceoipiotmtn for the trees, the crop fertilizer. Organic material is useful for the agricultural crops, for the people, but also hleps the trees. The farmers have free land, the syestm yields early income, the orangutans get healthy food and we can speed up ecosystem regeneration while even saving some menoy.

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So the idea is: how to integrate these _____ in space, over time and with the limited means you have. So we plant the trees, we plant these pineapples and beans and ginger in between, to ______ the ___________ for the trees, the crop fertilizer. Organic material is useful for the agricultural crops, for the people, but also _____ the trees. The farmers have free land, the ______ yields early income, the orangutans get healthy food and we can speed up ecosystem regeneration while even saving some _____.

Solution

  1. reduce
  2. helps
  3. flows
  4. money
  5. competition
  6. system

Original Text

So the idea is: how to integrate these flows in space, over time and with the limited means you have. So we plant the trees, we plant these pineapples and beans and ginger in between, to reduce the competition for the trees, the crop fertilizer. Organic material is useful for the agricultural crops, for the people, but also helps the trees. The farmers have free land, the system yields early income, the orangutans get healthy food and we can speed up ecosystem regeneration while even saving some money.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
local people 5
sugar palms 3
organic material 2
united states 2
acacia trees 2
million hectares 2
fuel wood 2
google earth 2
tropical hardwood 2
hardwood trees 2
shade trees 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
tropical hardwood trees 2

Important Words

  1. agricultural
  2. beans
  3. competition
  4. crop
  5. crops
  6. early
  7. ecosystem
  8. farmers
  9. fertilizer
  10. flows
  11. food
  12. free
  13. ginger
  14. healthy
  15. helps
  16. idea
  17. income
  18. integrate
  19. land
  20. limited
  21. material
  22. means
  23. money
  24. orangutans
  25. organic
  26. people
  27. pineapples
  28. plant
  29. reduce
  30. regeneration
  31. saving
  32. space
  33. speed
  34. system
  35. time
  36. trees
  37. yields