Shade-grown eco-friendly Indian coffee and carbon mitigation are intricately linked to the well-being of coffee Plantations. Soil carbon sequestration is a process in which CO2 is removed from the atmosphere and stored in the soil carbon pool. This process is primarily mediated by plants through photosynthesis, with carbon stored in the form of Soil organic carbon. […]
Conservation of Grasslands
Coffee Planters are under the impression that converting grasslands and pasture lands into Agroforestry is beneficial to the ecosystem by way of carbon sequestrian, greening the Planet, creating microclimates to improving the hydrological systems, and help nurture all forms of wildlife. This is not always true. In fact, it can cause, irreversible damage to the […]
Ants as Ecosystem Engineers
The Coffee ecosystem is characterized with a number of species of ants and their precise role in maintaining a sound ecological balance in helping coffee Agroforestry is poorly understood The urgent need to write this article is based on our understanding that each species of ants plays an important ecological role in the coffee ecosystem […]
Woodpeckers as Keystone Species in Eco-Friendly Shade Coffee
Shade-grown Eco-friendly coffee Plantations in India is a part of the Western Ghats, recognized the world over as a hotspot of biodiversity. Coffee Plantations extending thousands of hectares provide an ideal habitat for a number of wildlife species, both resident and migratory. Birds in general play different roles in any given ecosystem. Birds help maintain […]
Eco-friendly Coffee And Bird Communication
At the outset. We would like to inform the readers that we have worked on the bird biodiversity of eco-friendly Indian Coffee Plantations for over three decades. This has resulted in the publication of our first volume, titled Eco-friendly Shade Coffee, in the year 2009. We have recorded more than 125 species of birds inside […]
Eco-friendly Coffee and Raw Honey
We have extensively written on the role of various pollen vectors involved in cross-pollination inside coffee forests. Having sufficient understanding of these pollination agents enables the coffee Planters to maximize both productivity and quality of multi crops. That apart, we often overlook a very important aspect of raw honey that is abundantly available inside the […]