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Brazil’s agroforestry farmers report many benefits, but challenges remain

Claire Asher 2 Mar 2022

Labor rights violations at Brazil coffee farm linked to Starbucks, Nespresso

Daniel Camargos 30 Sep 2021
The Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The political economy of the Pan-Amazon (book excerpt)

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Apr 2021

Drinking coffee in the U.S.? Worry about forests in Vietnam, study says

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2021
Coffee drying outside the house of Abdul Kadeem in Manyate Village on the outskirts of Harenna Forest. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Coffee sustainability check: Q&A with Sjoerd Panhuysen of Coffee Barometer report

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2021

Smallholder agriculture cuts into key Sumatran tiger habitat

Rachel Fritts 26 Jan 2021
Glass frog in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rainforest Alliance Certification gets a 2020 upgrade

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2020

How coffee growers can adapt to a precipitous industry: Q&A with Dean’s Beans founder Dean Cycon

Justin Catanoso 1 Jun 2020

Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time

Donny Iqbal 17 Oct 2019
Ca phe sua da on sale for 65 cents from a cart on the side of the road near Ho Chi Minh City's downtown. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Innovative methods could transform Vietnam’s robusta farms into carbon sinks

Michael Tatarski 13 Jun 2019

New report examines drivers of rising Amazon deforestation on country-by-country basis

Mongabay.com 23 May 2019

Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm

Daniel Camargos contributor for Repórter Brasil 3 May 2019

Coffee in trouble: 60% of wild coffee species threatened with extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jan 2019

Cocaine blamed for rising deforestation in Peru’s Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 30 Dec 2018
1. Adbul Kadeem inspecting drying coffee outside of his house in Manyate Village on the outskirts of Harenna Forest. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Pressure mounting for the home of wild coffee and Ethiopian wolves

Nathan Siegel 18 Dec 2018

How an African bat might help us prevent future Ebola outbreaks

Mike Gaworecki 2 Oct 2018

Slave labor found at Starbucks-certified Brazil coffee plantation

Daniela Penha contributor for Repórter Brasil 18 Sep 2018

Chocolate and agroforestry accelerate in El Salvador

Anna-Catherine Brigida 14 Mar 2018

Zero-deforestation pledges need help, support to meet targets, new study finds

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2018

Rainforest Alliance, UTZ announce merger to create single sustainability standard and certification program

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jun 2017

The resistance of Peruvian coffee

Jack Lo Lau 30 May 2017
Typical landscape in Vietnam that's suitable for growing Coffea canephora. Photo by Michael Tatarski

Vietnam faces dilemma on forests as climate change threatens coffee crops

Michael Tatarski 1 Dec 2016
Bags of coffee at the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange's warehouse in Awassa. Photo courtesy of DFID - UK Department for International Development

Development of Ethiopia’s Yayu biosphere a lifeline for organic coffee

Elias Gebreselassie 27 Nov 2016
A coffee cup with beans. Photo by Lotus Head/Wikimedia Commons

This is why your coffee beans matter to the planet

Genevieve Belmaker 10 Nov 2016
Coffea Arabica plant. Photo by Forest and Kim Star/Wikimedia Commons

Ethiopia’s vulnerable tropical forests are key to securing future of wild coffee

Fiona Hesselden at the University of Huddersfield 10 Oct 2016
Villagers in Tanzania use mobile monitoring to keep an eye on the forests. Photo courtesy USAID Africa

Despite conservation efforts, Tanzania’s forests still under pressure

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 7 Oct 2016

World’s most expensive coffee often produced from caged, abused civets, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 24 May 2016

Conservation groups buy land from 109 coffee farmers, create reserve for rare salamanders

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Oct 2015

Lombok’s blooming community forest bears fruit and raises livelihoods – and haj trips

Jay Fajar 7 Oct 2015

Consumer choice: Shade-grown coffee and cocoa good for the birds, farmers, ecosystems

Michael Buelna 22 May 2015

McDonald’s to address deforestation across all commodities it sources

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Apr 2015

Downturn in shade-grown coffee putting forests, wildlife, people at risk

Nika Levikov 11 Jul 2014

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