ETHICAL COFFEE: POWERFUL CONCOCTION TO SAVE FORESTS?

A global shift to shade-grown coffee production can save nearly 10 million hectares of rainforest and bring us better tasting coffee, reports Worldwatch Researcher Brian Halweil in the May/June edition of the World Watch magazine. “Shade-grown organic coffee is better for the environment, better for the farmer’s pocketbook, and tastes better,” Halweil says in the article, “Shade-Grown Coffee—A Winning Fix.” A few major coffee houses are now offering “ethical” coffee, triple-certified to be organic, grown in the shade, and fairly traded.

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