Sentences with phrase «own coffee farm»

Together with Kula, they recognized that coffee farming is a feasible solution.

If we want sustainable development that will impact the next generation, we saw coffee farming as the best outlet.

Dukale, his wife, and four children, own an eco-friendly and family - run fair trade coffee farm in Ethiopia.

The Nicaragua Hot - line from Witness for Peace dated February 1, 1990 contained the following headings: CONTRAS KIDNAP 56 WORKERS FROM PRIVATE COFFEE FARM IN JINOTEGA; CONTRAS KILL TWO FARMERS IN CHONTALES; CONTRAS KILL MAN AND 11 - YEAR - OLD BOY IN CHONTALES; CONTRAS KIDNAP FOUR NEAR LA CONCORDIA;

The family run business has operated a coffee farm in Honduras since the 1930s, giving the company an extensive knowledge of the entire process of making coffee, from seed to cup.

This organization provides organic certification to their producers and is committed to reducing the environmental impact of coffee farming.

We source our coffee from the best family coffee farms around the world and buy only the top 1 % of Arabica Beans.

To date, more than 2.5 million acres of Central American forest have been sacrificed to coffee farms — mainly to feed demand by large corporate coffee brands like Nescafe.

Life on many coffee farms is tough.

The Chain Collaborative developed a micro-finance program in partnership with ADIBOC / XEPECUL to provide business and administrative training to coffee farming communities in Guatemala, as well as provide loan options to women entrepreneurs.

Alumbre, named for the river that flows west facing the hills of the Tarrazu region of Costa Rica, is long revered as home to some of the finest coffee farms in the world.

«The coffee we source is all - natural, organic coffee and each bar helps give back to the coffee farming community.»

Salvanatura is the main conservation organization in El Salvador, and it has done a great deal of work specifically with coffee farms, both research on biodiversity, preparing and critiquing Rainforest Alliance certification guidelines, and aiding in certification efforts.

If you do not see your favorite Hawaii or Kona coffee farm listed on our menu page, please use the contact form to send name of the farm and / or farmer or roasters name and / or info, and we will do our very best to find and supply your preferred Hawaii or Kona coffee.

There are hundreds of 100 % Kona coffee farms in Kona and many offer tours to the public.

These shade coffee farms provide critical refuge for birds and wildlife in El Salvador.

Coffee farms border one of the country's most important parks, El Imposible, and they provide a a corridor to another park, Los Volcanes.

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

The average kona coffee farm is about five acres, but the Kona coffee trees featured on the tour had significantly larger beans.

The forestation is extremely abundant and to say that the coffee farms are providing «critical refuge» for the birds as if they would have nowhere else to be without them is simply absurd.

Gaze out the window on one side it's beautiful and green with famous Kona after Kona coffee farm.

The results showed that Rainforest Alliance certification increased the probability of forest conservation on coffee farms by 19.3 percent.

There are a lot of waterfalls and if you are into waterfalls the island of Hawaii and a major portion of the coffee farms have at least one, often used as a natural rinsing agent for beans.

See their web site for photos of coffee farms in their various regions (they include farms outside the Kilamanjaro area).

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.

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).

It's a coffee town, surrounded by coffee farms, which sprinkle the region.

I've been talking to a lot of people about this and looking all around Central America for examples of private investment in coffee farms.

Coffee farms are often located adjacent to protected areas; in many countries, including El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, more than 30 % of the area surrounding coffee regions (50 - kilometer radius) falls within protected areas (Jha et al. 2012).

(Updated) Finca Platanillo in San Marcos, western Guatemala is the first coffee farm to be verified by Rainforest Alliance (RA) for compliance with the Climate Module of the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN, the standards - setting organization for RA).

* RA and its partners have also worked on developing a guide for farmers on how to measure and verify carbon stored on coffee farms to enable producers to receive payments for carbon credits.

Our operating divisions include coffee farms and mills, green coffee trading, multi-national quality control services, single - serve capsule production and roasting plants in Renton, WA and Tyler, TX.

There are some contributing factors that make coffee farms in this area poor reserves for biodiversity.

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.

Even more so than the areas we visited in Panama, Finca Esperanza Verde and other shade coffee farms are critical to birds and other wildlife in Nicaragua.

In 2001, Hacienda Rio Negro became the first Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee farm in Costa Rica.

Cocoa Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans) prefers gallery forest and older second growth, and forages on large trees by probing the bark, epiphytes, mossy clumps, and vines — which wouldn't be left on trees in intensively managed coffee farms.

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

The company is a pioneer of sustainable coffee farming and milling methods.

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.

This trip was not to coffee farms, as we were staying in a lowland area on the northern coast.

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.

Last winter, I spent some time in Chiriqui, Panama, and visited some coffee farms.

Quantifying pest control services by birds and ants in Kenyan coffee farms.

Currently Maui has more than 50 coffee farms, with more being added every year.

Mot mots, parrots and doves roost in the cedar, cuernavaca, oak and inga trees near Finca Santa Isabel, a Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee farm in southeastern Guatemala.

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

To further strengthen the link between sustainability and quality, the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) has partnered with the Rainforest Alliance to connect the Q Coffee System, which certifies high - quality specialty coffees, with the network of Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ coffee farms.

Look for more profiles of birds found on coffee farms in the coming months.