Sentences with phrase «of shade coffee»

There, you can read about Hispaniola's great biodiversity, including 30 endemic bird species; the importance of the island to birds that winter and migrate through the West Indies and breed in North America; and the critical role of shade coffee in preserving habitat on an island with a very high level of deforestation.

Sun coffee has been considered the antithesis of shade coffee and all that is good in sustainable coffee growing.

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

His work has demonstrated the importance of shade coffee to birds in the country.

The importance of connectivity between coffee and protected areas is tremendous, given the overlap and proximity of biodiversity hotspots and coffee - growing regions (Hardner and Rice 2002) and the importance of shaded coffee in the face of global climate change.

Not exact matches

With shade grown coffee and a limited reliance on fossil fuels Dukale's farm (they use methane gas harvested from the livestock manure to power their homes) provides an example of what farming can be like.

Enjoy a variety of our Central and South American blends that use all choice selected, high altitude, shade grown, and handpicked coffee beans.

Our Community Aid Program has restored thousands of acres of rainforest by farming only with shade grown farms, and planted our own coffee on our own organic farms.

When coffee ceases to be profitable, the coffee fields — which for a large number of small holders are a mix of coffee, food and timber trees, and native shade trees — are cleared.

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

A quick stop at lion Kona featured the shade of some macadamia nut trees, a common companion to coffee trees on Kona mountain side.

Very little primary forest remains in El Salvador, and shade coffee farms represent much of the rest of the «forested» land in the country.

While much of Mexico's organic coffee is grown in rustic shade or traditional polyculture, Peru grows a lot of its organic coffee in commercial polyculture or shade monoculture (definitions here), a less - desirable situation for biodiversity.

[There is a] strong indication that the coffee boom of shade - grown coffee does not promote the more bird friendly «song bird coffee» plantations (rustic), but rather promotes more monocultures with Inga and Albizia.

Under this renovation scheme, Moringa will pay the approximately $ 4,000 per hectare in renovation costs, making use of the new and advanced coffee varieties developed and sold locally by ECOM (H1 and H3 hybrids, and Marsellesa) and plant timber and shade trees.

In the last two decades, the value of shade - grown (or simply shade) coffee farms for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision has gained widespread attention from the public and scientific communities (Perfecto et al. 1996, Tscharntke et al. 2011, Jha et al. 2012, De Beenhouwer et al. 2013).

For example, 81 % of the coffee in Nicaragua and El Salvador grew under a shade canopy in 1996, and although recent surveys document declines in shade tree diversity since then, these declines mostly occurred on larger farms; in contrast, many smallholder cooperatives preserve high levels of biodiversity, including more than 100 species of shade trees on fewer than 30 farms (Méndez et al. 2010a).

A review of ecosystem services, farmer livelihoods, and value chains in shade coffee agroecoystems

If they say their coffee is «shade grown» and the coffee isn't certified by SMBC, I'd like to see an explanation of how they determined it really is grown in shade.

Sumatran coffee farms use very few species of shade trees, including the non-native Gliricidia sepium, which may not provide proper resources for native fauna.

Through the project's greenhouse gas accounting, build local awareness about the value of maintaining and restoring forest cover, and improve the desirability of maintaining shade coffee over cattle ranching or other activities with a higher ecological impact.

Overall criteria I would love to make it simple, and provide a list of retailers that sell only certified shade - grown coffee.

The authors of this study interviewed 36 Mexican shade coffee farmers regarding their knowledge and resultant perception and attitudes of the wildlife on their farms.

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

Shade coffee farms appeared to be one of the only land uses that preserved a lot of native trees.

On my recent trip to Nicaragua, I was fortunate to have a chance to meet Lili and Georges Duriaux - Chavarría, owners of Finca El Jaguar, a forest reserve and shade coffee farm in Jinotega.

I know a number of University of Michigan graduate students who have done thesis work on coffee farms in Costa Rica, and they have all told me there is very little true shade in the farms.

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.

Last year in my post The (de) evolution of Rainforest Alliance shade criteria, I outlined the incremental relaxation of the criteria for shade over agroforestry crops — what the public understands to signify «shade - grown coffee.»

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.

This study looked at pollinators in coffee farms in Veracruz, Mexico that used various types of shade management.

Cacao farms look after biodiversity, growing cacao beans under the shade of rainforest trees alongside crops like avocados, pineapples, bananas and coffee.

In this case, we see that increased shade (especially diversity in the shade management) encourages a wider diversity of pollinating insects, which in turn leads to higher fruit set in the coffee and thus higher yields.

About 120 to 150 ha are in shade coffee production, much of it organic; 87 ha is now certified Bird - Friendly.

For the canopy layer of hardwood, many coffee farmers are now planting a fast - growing, sparse shade timber species from Australia, Grevillea robusta, often called silver oak although not related to North American oak species.

Family owned since its founding, the farm is known for the quality of the high - altitude, shade - grown Arabica Coffee it produces.

Forty species of shade trees (including 50,000 planted by the estate) cool the ground and allow for slow ripening of the coffee cherries which increases sweetness.

The coffee is shade grown, under a semi-open canopy of fruit and forest trees.

... Many of these roasters claim to have visited the farms themselves and thereby justify «self - certifying» their shade coffees.

According to the press release, the certified bean portion of KLM's coffee comes from shaded coffee farms in the highlands of Colombia and the cerrado region of Brazil.

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.

I'm sure the Brazilian coffee isn't shaded, since cerrado is savannah, not forest, and RA standards call for «Farms in areas where the original natural vegetation is not forest must dedicate at least 30 % of the farm area for conservation or recovery of the area's typical ecosystems.»

She then started «growing fertilizer» by planting avocado trees that provide shade for delicate coffee bushes, organic nutrients for the soil (the fallen leaves that now carpet much of the farm), and extra income for the family when the fruits are in season.

... [T] he rapid proliferation of uncertified shade coffee brands is fueling concerns across the industry regarding free - riding and even fraud.

Goals included reforestation and creation of forest corridors to improve habitat, especially for migratory birds, and working with coffee farmers to re-establish shade trees and convert to organic production.

There are now around 50 species of trees providing multi-layer shade for the coffee.

Shade coffee farms may be extremely important to the survival of these species.

It inspired my love of birds and my career, and is symbolic of «our» birds that winter in the tropics on shade coffee farms.

I was unable to determine a precise source for this coffee, although the importer notes the varieties are bourbon, typica (both those require some shade), cataui, and caturra (both of those used in CR for sun coffee).

I've spoken to a lot of consumers, and their overall impression is that RA certification is an ecological one and they generally believe that it indicates that the coffee is shade grown.