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Coffee and sustainability Part II: Have your coffee and drink it too

In the previous post of this series, I pointed out how some current coffee farming practices often lead to clear-cut of rainforests, leaving less habitat for wildlife populations and thus threatening their persistence. “Well, that sounds pretty terrible,” you say, “but I'm not willing to give up the one thing that gets me out of

Coffee and sustainability Part I: The caffeinated inconvenient truth

For my Master's research, I was fortunate to study avian ecology in Costa Rica where I developed a deep appreciation for the incredible bird diversity observed there. Other things that also stayed with me from the experience was the scenic coffee farms and the friendly farmers who not only let me work on their properties

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