Shade Coffee: Update on a Disappearing Refuge for Biodiversity

Jha, Shalene; Bacon, Christopher M.; Philpott, Stacy M.; Méndez, V. Ernesto; Läderach, Peter; Rice, Robert A.

doi:10.1093/biosci/biu038

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“…In Nicaragua, coffee production accounts for 18.2 % (MAGFOR 2012) and 17 % (ICO 2013) of GDP, respectively, and is considered a nationally strategic activity, since it is grown on 127,000 ha, giving labor to 44,500 families (MAGFOR 2012). Furthermore, agroforestry systems, commonly used in the tropics to produce coffee, provide important environmental benefits such as biodiversity (Jha et al 2014), carbon accumulation (van Rikxoort et al 2014) , water storage and erosion control (Wardle et al 2011) .…”

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Climate change adaptation of coffee production in space and time

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Coffee is grown in more than 60 tropical countries on over 11 million ha by an estimated 25 million farmers, most of whom are smallholders. Several regional studies demonstrate the climate sensitivity of coffee (Coffea arabica) and the likely impact of climate change on coffee suitability, yield, increased pest and disease pressure and farmers' livelihoods. The objectives of this paper are (i) to quantify the impact of progressive climate change to grow coffee and to produce high quality coffee in Nicaragua and (ii) to develop an adaptation framework across time and space to guide adaptation planning. We used coffee location and cup quality data from Nicaragua in combination with the Maxent and CaNaSTA crop suitability models, the WorldClim historical data and the CMIP3 global circulation models to predict the likely impact of climate change on coffee suitability and quality. We distinguished four different impact scenarios: Very high (coffee disappears), high (large negative changes), medium (little negative changes) and increase (positive changes) in climate suitability. During the Nicaraguan coffee roundtable, most promising adaptation strategies were identified, which we then used to develop a two-dimensional adaptation framework for coffee in time and space. Our analysis indicates that incremental adaptation may occur over

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“…High-shade and low-shade coffee farms frequently differ in terms of arthropod, bird, and plant diversity (Klein et al 2002;Philpott et al 2008b;Jha & Vandermeer 2010;Jha et al 2014), with greater plant and arthropod pollinator diversity in high-shade farms (Jha & Vandermeer 2010). The large difference in species composition between farms could be attributed to differences in species composition of floral visitors (Jha & Vandermeer 2010), or their abundance.…”

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The presence of aggressive ants is associated with fewer insect visits to and altered microbe communities in coffee flowers

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“…A higher yield and the price increase in sun-grown coffee have provided farmers incentives to shift production from shade-grown Arabica coffee to sun-grown Robusta coffee. Since 1996, the ratio of land used to produce shade-grown coffee, relative to the total land area of coffee cultivation, has fallen by nearly 20% globally [14].…”

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Impacts of Business Strategies on Coffee Production and the Environment

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Abstract-This study analyzes the impacts of business strategies on coffee production and the environment. Company A is used as an example to analyze the impacts of corporate activities and environmental initiatives on the decision-making processes of farmers and their coffee production. Farmer loan support, a proxy of environmental engagement strategy of company A, is found to induce the production of shade-grown Arabica coffee rather than sun-grown Robusta coffee. It has been found that integrating environmental sustainability into the business strategy is a win-win business model that benefits both the corporation and the environment. The result indicates that a sustainable business model could help to reduce deforestation, CO 2 emissions, and climate change impacts.Index Terms-Environmental sustainability, shade-grown coffee, sun-grown coffee, a win-win business model.

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Shade Coffee: Update on a Disappearing Refuge for Biodiversity

Cited by 297 publications

References 64 publications

Climate change adaptation of coffee production in space and time

Climate change adaptation of coffee production in space and time

The presence of aggressive ants is associated with fewer insect visits to and altered microbe communities in coffee flowers

Impacts of Business Strategies on Coffee Production and the Environment

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