The story of coffee starts in the misty highlands of Ethiopia, where wild coffee trees have grown for thousands of years.

Before, the seasons seemed etched into the calendar, with well-defined periods of drought and rain. Today, the climate has ...

coffee beans were grown in the shades of trees. However, the huge increase in demand for coffee has transformed more and more production from shade to sun-grown coffee. More than 40% of the coffee ...

diversify shade canopy, and employ growing, harvesting, and processing methods that produce specialty grade coffee that sells for $2.80 per pound. Since its inception, the program has evolved to ...

The Smithsonian Institution and Piedra de Cachimbo coffee farmers in northern Venezuela are committing to the conservation of 400 hectares of forest for traditional shade-grown organic coffee ...

Shade is also very important, he further said. “If a farmer has taken all this into account and is growing coffee, we are neutral; we won’t discourage them. Coffee cultivation is deregulated ...