If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Aves y Cafe program in Venezuela aids rural communities by encouraging community-centered shade coffee agroforestry, while protecting rare and ...

Agroforestry integrates trees, shrubs, and crops in a system that functions well together — it covers over 1 billion hectares of land worldwide and its best known examples include shade grown coffee ...

A new global analysis reveals a critical oversight in sustainable coffee and carbon-capture initiatives. These programs incentivize the planting of new trees yet fail to reward the preservation of ...

Coffee farms with mature shade trees store far more carbon than planting new trees can capture, a new study reveals. Ellie Tahmaseb Tree canopy on shade-grown coffee farms helps mitigate impacts of ...

The open-access platform brings together decades of research from languages and countries around the world into a single, searchable resource. Agroforestry – the integration of shade trees and diverse ...

The diversity of trees on shade-grown coffee farms makes them a haven for biodiversity. Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. A new global analysis reveals a ...

The cultivation of coffee, cocoa and vanilla secures the income of many small-holder farmers and is also a driver of land-use change in many tropical countries. In particular, cultivation in ...

Your choice of coffee can make a difference for birds in tropical parts of the world — and biodiversity overall. In a study on coffee plantations in Africa, we found that coffee farms with shade trees ...

The open-access platform brings together decades of research from languages and countries around the world into a single, searchable resource. TURRIALBA, COSTA RICA ...

The cultivation of coffee, cocoa and vanilla secures the income of many small-holder farmers and also drives land-use change. In particular, cultivation in agroforestry, in which these crops are ...