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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

Rainforest Alliance eco-certified coffee hits 1 billion pounds

Mongabay.com 17 May 2014

Elephants in the midst: warning system prevents human-elephant conflicts in India, saves lives

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 8 May 2014

Commodity eco-certification skyrockets, but standards slip

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2014

Is Brazil’s epic drought a taste of the future?

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2014

Preserving forest, birds boosts coffee profit up to $300/ha by controlling pests

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2013

Coffee and climate change: an uncertain future for millions of farmers around the world

Jennifer Chesworth 29 Jul 2013

Civet poop coffee may be threatening wild species

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2013

Over 100,000 farmers squatting in Sumatran park to grow coffee

Jeremy Hance 6 Nov 2012

Bird diversity at risk if ‘agroforests’ replaced with farmland

Caillie Mutterback 13 Sep 2012

Wealthy consumption threatens species in developing countries

Jacob Munger 11 Jul 2012

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