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agroforestry

Not All Agroforestry Systems Are Created Equal (or Funded Equally)

A new comment article published in Nature Climate Change makes the case for more forest-based agroforestry — integrating crops into existing forests — as an underutilized climate and livelihood solution....
2025.09.02
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agroforestrybiodiversityColumnsforest farmingKaram Shebanland managementNew York Botanical GardenRural Actionshade coffeeshade grownSusan Cook-PattonThe Nature ConservancyYale Universityコーヒー
Africa

Study Suggests Coffee Industry Has Been Incentivizing Carbon Storage All Wrong

  For more than a century, the act of planting new trees has helped assuage the collective guilt of humans, the beneficiaries of economic progress at the expense of the...
2025.08.27
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Africa

Study: Coffee Has High Potential to Combine Conservation and Production

As agricultural goods go, coffee has a particularly high potential to combine forest conservation, biodiversity and production output, according to a meta analysis published this spring.  A team of researchers...
2024.07.11
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AfricaagroforestrybiodiversityCentral Americadeforestationenvironmental sustainabilityEUDRFarmer IssuesMarco CamperaOriginresearchscienceSophie MansonSouth AmericaSustainabilityコーヒー
ACAFLO

Inside a Pioneering Program to Protect Coffee and Birds in Venezuela

The Aves y Cafe program in Venezuela aids rural communities by encouraging community-centered shade coffee agroforestry, while protecting rare and migrating birds. The project has so far succeeded in protecting...
2024.05.27
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agroforestry

How Shade Coffee Lends Conservation a Hand

When managed in the right way, the farms that provide our morning brew can be a refuge for plant and animal biodiversity Q&A — Ecologist Ivette Perfecto Up in the...
2024.02.07
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agroforestry

How Coffee is Both an Environmental Hero and Villain, Part 2

The first piece in this mini series provided an overview of different methods of commercial coffee production and how they may affect the environment and climate change, defining two ends...
2023.08.10
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