Choosing the right blend in your local coffee bar just keeps getting more complicated. Now java junkies are faced with terms like organic, shade grown and fair trade. Each of these “cause coffees” ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---If you get a chance to sip some shade-grown Mexican organic coffee, please pause a moment to thank the bats that helped make it possible. At Mexican organic coffee plantations, ...

Mongabay: Shade-grown coffee won’t support all birds, but adding a forest helps: Study

The Smithsonian Bird Friendly certification promotes shade-grown coffee where the canopy has at least 40% cover provided by diverse native plants, among other research-based criteria. A recent study ...

Shade-grown coffee won’t support all birds, but adding a forest helps: Study

Sun-grown coffee plantation in Colombia. (Photo by Stacy Philpott) Map shows areas of coffee growing under different techonology or shade levels. for larger version. While the cultivation of coffee ...

Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) today unveils Shade Grown Mexico coffee for the third consecutive year through its partnership with Conservation International (CI). This year, Starbucks ...

EurekAlert!: Shade grown coffee shrinking as a proportion of global coffee production

The proportion of land used to cultivate shade grown coffee, relative to the total land area of coffee cultivation, has fallen by nearly 20 percent globally since 1996, according to a new study by ...

Help the birds. Buy a cup, or better still a pound of shade grown coffee: We who are concerned about bettering the environment, have many ways, some we have yet to think of, to make improvements. As a ...