Sentences with phrase «as shade coffee»

As shade coffee maintains the tree canopy, these coffee plantations are particularly important for migratory and resident bird species.

Not exact matches

Here's the thing: This latest version contains no mandatory criteria for shade cover for shade - tolerant crops such as coffee.

It seems that both yield and quality is higher in such conditions and that the market (ultimately the consumers) does not know how to separate between terms such as organic, song bird coffee, shade - grown coffee, etc..

As El Salvador grows mainly older types of coffee — mostly bourbons and pacas — they are typically grown in shade.

This coffee is not certified organic, and is labeled shade grown but is not certified as such by Rainforest Alliance or Smithsonian.

For example, migratory birds often use shade coffee farms as a corridor when moving between temperate and tropical regions (e.g., Greenberg et al. 1997).

Unlike sun coffee systems, which do not provide pollinators with resources throughout the year (Jha and Vandermeer 2010) and are less permeable to dispersing organisms (e.g., Muriel and Kattan 2009), shade coffee farms can promote pollinator populations and serve as corridors for organisms moving regionally between forest fragments.

On the other hand, there are also coffees marketed as «shade grown» that may not be grown under any sort of measurable criteria.

In addition, some coffees from shade certified farms are not sold with the «seal» if the retailer decides not to market it as such.

The focus is on research on coffee growing (e.g., how shade impacts pests, yield, and biodiversity), as well as topics such as the economics of various certifications.

In countries where robusta cultivation has been encouraged and expanding, such as Vietnam, shade agroforestry systems and native forests have been removed in favor of growing the coffee in full sun.

Unfortunately, so are some coffees that are grown under conditions that might not be best for biodiversity, such as shaded monoculture, or conceivably even in full sun, if a retailer or distributor were particularly, um, «shady.»

Coffees from these sources may be labeled by roasters as «shade grown.»

Although shade coffee farms can provide habitat for some species, they do not possess the complete suite of species or ecosystem functions as the original habitat.

In Venezuela, they were found foraging in the coffee understory as well as in the canopy of shade coffee farms.

The SAN promotes agroforestry and shade - canopy coverage for shade - tolerant crops (particularly coffee and cocoa) as a way to conserve biodiversity while helping farmers produce a high - quality crop.

I am currently working with small scale farmers in the Ecuadorian highlands and we have recently become interested in the idea of growing shade - grown coffee as a way of sustaining the local growers and preserving some of the native forests in the region.

For instance, 40 % shade canopy coverage was previously recommended for coffee in much of Central America, but these recommendations are changing in some places as coffee rust decimates coffee crops.

I understand that shade over the crop is not always appropriate — in which case I believe a good alternative would be a mitigation requirement for a contiguous forested patch or ecologically equivalent habitat of the same size as the coffee crop elsewhere on the farm.

Nitrogen - fixing trees on shade coffee farms enrich the soil, as do the fallen leaves from the shade trees.

Although I have found a lot of background information regarding shade - grown coffee, as well as more specific information mainly to do with biodiversity indices and legislation and the requirements of the shade providing canopy I have been having a lot of trouble finding practical resources for farmers.

This study radiotracked several species of resident forest birds in the Coto Brus province of southern Costa Rica, now «dominated by sparsely - shaded coffee farms» — recall that in my post on coffee growing in Costa Rica that most farms, including those marketed as «shade» coffee, have few shade trees of only a couple of species, and lack the structural complexity necessary for true biodiversity preservation.

Unlike arabica coffee, which can (and is, in much of Mexico) grown as an agroforestry crop under mixed shade, robusta is grown in the sun and will require the clearing of valuable lowland forests, no doubt substantial amounts of fertilizer and pesticides, and cause collateral environmental damage.

While not as strong as the original 2005 coffee standard, criteria # 2.8 at least sets out some sort of shade and tree diversity requirements.

The paper is a straightforward look at the how different shade coffee systems store carbon and their levels of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as how a few certifications (organic, Rainforest Alliance, UTZ Certified) influence those metrics.

These include live fences (hedgerows), riparian zones and conservation of forested areas, as well as an optimum shade level for agroforestry crops such as coffee.

I am going to try to focus here on the «shade criteria» which is very important for coffee, especially as it relates to birds.

Further, if the proposed criteria will permit the shade / tree requirements to be outside the production area as you mentioned, then there is less justification to reduce the amount of shade required for coffee in the standard.

Sustainable coffee agrosystems frequently rely on fallen leaves from their shade trees as well as the application of coffee skins and other organic matter for soil moisture retention and fertilization, providing another means in which these farms can contribute to carbon sequestration.

A roaster could legitimately market this coffee as shade - grown, but a consumer would have little or no clue as to what standards are being met, since there is no designation or explanation on the OCIA web site.

But this holds promise for farms that are growing sun coffee or shade monoculture as they can gain credits for planting shade trees or for reforestation — the more the better.

Integrating shade criteria into existing organic criteria to create an «organic +» category is something that has been discussed for quite some time as an option to help achieve some sort of «environmental seal» for coffee [2,3].

Since these must be beyond «business as usual,» existing shade coffee farms might not be able to greatly increase their amount of carbon sequestration.

The coffee: This blend is certified Fair Trade and organic, and is labeled as shade grown.

Considering that a number of Caribou offerings are from Africa and Asia, which are not eligible for shade certification and which often are grown under shade as a matter of course, this means that well over half of Caribou's coffees will represent shade coffees, in one shape or form.

In areas where coffee farms have been converted to sun coffee, Inga - shaded farms have become important refuges for orioles as well as other species.

Other flowering trees that are often grown as shade trees in coffee farms, such as Erythrina and Gliricidia, are also visited by orioles and other birds.

If low requirements for shade production become mainstreamed and legitimized, and are seen as the true benchmarks for eco-friendly coffee production, habitat quality and biodiversity will suffer.

Research carried out by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Centre in Colombia and Mexico showed over 90 percent fewer bird species in sun - grown coffee plantations as opposed to shade - grown coffee59.

By maintaining abundant forest cover in shade coffee plantations, they can function as buffer zones and can form the backbone to the biological corridor linking the two national parks and other forest fragments.

Shade is conducive to coffee rust as compared to full sun exposure under standardized fruit load conditions

As play was concluding, Beem ambled into the press room in the Shades of Green hotel wearing his usual off - course uniform — T - shirt, shorts and sandals — and swigging from a coffee cup.

As I sit here annoyed by the guy on his cell phone next to me and vaguely nauseated by the residual skunk smell, I can remember drinking an iced coffee in the dappled light beneath the Sycamore tree that shaded the town square of Karyes.

More environmentally beneficial shade - grown coffee has actually declined as sales of supposedly sustainable coffee have risen

Myers said the shift to technified coffee production changed the process to look more like traditional large wheat or soybean farms in the United States as opposed to allowing coffee plants to grow in smaller shaded areas.

Plant scientists from the United States, Britain, and Latin America have teamed up with chocolate manufacturers to plot counterattacks, such as introducing benign fungi to displace the bad ones and planting cacao between taller coffee trees that supply fungi - stopping shade.

Typically the teeth are stained by everyday stains like coffee, red wine, tea, curry, blackcurrant and gravy to name a few but the excellent news is that many people act in response very definitely to the treatment and the staining can be removed and whiten your teeth by as much as 6 - 8 shades.

But there's something deliberate about the design elements in the series, just as there's a reason boutiques festoon their doorways with artificial flowers and coffee shops agonize over the right shade of sage for their subway tiles.

We've received photos of this specific car when it was still in one shade, orange all over, during a visit at the 2012 Euro Car Show in Saskatchewan... by June 6 2013 the car came to Cars & Coffee at Le Macaron in Regina wearing the black wrap with style... I'm not sure if this is the same car as the one Zahir Rana from ZR Auto had wrapped in a full chrome look in March 2013, but it sure looks very close... could still be two different cars altogether.

A sampling of our publisher / clients include Plexus Publishing, the publisher of Boardwalk Empire, the bestseller which served as the basis for the hit HBO series of the same name; HarperCollins, The Writer's Coffee Shop, original publishers of the international literary sensation Fifty Shades of Grey; and Ellora's Cave, formerly one of the largest independent romance publishers in the world.