Biodiversity, yield, and shade coffee certification

By I. Perfecto, J. Vandermeer, Alexandre H. Mas, L. S. Pinto. 2005

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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Fair Trade organic coffee production in Nicaragua — Sustainable development or a poverty trap? (2009, background): “More shade trees and low-intensity farming methods, however, also imply lower yields (Perfecto et al., 2005), which is problematic from the point of view of rural poverty.”
Large Mammals in an Agroforestry Mosaic in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (2012, background): “Species richness and composition in agroforests, however, depend on the maintenance of forest cover at larger spatial scales (Bali et al. 2007, Faria et al. 2007), and on land-use intensification (i.e., shade density and diversity, and agrochemical use; Perfecto et al. 2005, Gordon et al. 2007).”
Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Diversified Farming Systems: An Agroecological, Systems-based Alternative to Modern Industrial Agriculture (2012, background): “The resulting heterogeneous landscapes support both desired (beneficial) components of biodiversity and “associated biodiversity”; together these two elements make up agrobiodiversity (Perfecto et al. 2005).”
A Review of Ecosystem Services, Farmer Livelihoods, and Value Chains in Shade Coffee Agroecosystems (2011, background): “%) canopy cover (Perfecto et al. 2005; SotoPinto et al. 2000; Muschler 1997).”
Shaded Coffee and Cocoa : Double Dividend for Biodiversity and Small-scale Farmers (2017, background): “Thus, there are a variety of coffee and cocoamanagement systems along a gradient of intensification, ranging from low-input rustic agroforestry plantationswith high levels of shade to high-inputmonoculture plantations without shade (Moguel and Toledo, 1999; Perfecto et al., 2005).”
To close the yield-gap while saving biodiversity will require multiple locally relevant strategies (2013, background): “While the normal expectation is that increased production comes at a cost to biodiversity, the functional form of this trade-off relationship will differ from place to place (Perfecto et al., 2005).”
Economic Evaluation of Pollination Services Comparing Coffee Landscapes in Ecuador and Indonesia (2006, background): “However, Perfecto et al. (2005) argued that an additional high price premium that goes directly to the producers would be necessary to make conservation through shade-coffee systems a viable option for land owners.”
Payments for ecosystem services as commodity fetishism (2010, background): “Furthermore, Perfecto et al. (2005) highlight how the price difference between biodiversity-friendly and normal coffee does not have to do with compensation of opportunity costs or the real improvement in biodiversity terms at local level, but on consumption strategies at global levels (e.g.…”
Biodiversity Response To Habitat Loss And Fragmentation (2017, background): “Second, while landscapes are fundamentally shaped by the type, extent, and intensity of human agriculture, the relationship between agricultural production and biodiversity outcomes ranges widely along a gradient from zero-sum trade-offs (Power, 2010) to positive synergies (Perfecto et al., 2005).”
Pest reduction services by birds in shade and sun coffee in Jamaica (2010, background): “Market values offer a modest economic incentive for the retention of traditional cultivation techniques via environmentally labeled premium-priced coffees, but additional incentives are needed for farmers to retain shade trees (Gobbi, 2000; Perfecto et al., 2005).”