Environmental-economic benefits and trade-offs on sustainably certified coffee farms

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Haggar, Jeremy; Soto, Gabriela; Casanoves, Fernando; de Melo Virginio, Elias;
(2017)
Coffee with diverse shade trees is recognized as conserving greater biodiversity than more intensive production methods. Sustainable certification has been proposed as an incentive to conserve shade grown coffee. With 40% of global coffee production certified as sustain... View more
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