For A Better Coffee Harvest, Keep Some Biodiversity

A lot of coffee is grown on and around Kilimanjaro, which towers almost 20,000 feet in the air. The most traditional form of cultivation can be found in the gardens of the Chagga people. In some areas, coffee trees and other crop plants still grow in the shade of banana trees but most coffee is grown on plantations, which still feature a large number of shade trees. However, Africans reliant on coffee for income have gradually replaced legacy coffee varietals, which prefer shade, with others that are more resistant to fungi and can also grow in the sun. read more

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