Early one morning in 1985, a pair of researchers trekked into a spit of Colombian rainforest surrounded by coffee plantations. Their task was to identify all the epiphytes — plants that grow on ...

One scheme run by the Rainforest Alliance has helped farmers in eastern ... "My parents systematically deforested in order to plant more coffee plants. Now we know that this was a mistake," said ...

Rainforest Alliance also wants to go wider, and bring under its umbrella millions of smallholder farmers and producers who have no form of sustainability certification. In coffee, for example ...

KOTA KINABALU: The rare Chewlunia sabahensis coffee plant has been officially ... research are needed to understand Borneo’s diverse rainforest ecosystem and preserve Sabah’s biodiversity.

Because coffee beans come directly from the Coffea plant, you can rest assured your ... and avoid companies associated with damaging rainforest practices, as well as farmers who are unfairly ...

These are rainforest plants of equatorial zones. During my year teaching in Uganda, I remember walking through a coffee ...