Conservation and Coffee Production: Creating Synergies in Kodagu, Karnataka

Abraham, Rosa; Purushothaman, Seema; Devy, Soubadra

doi:10.1007/978-81-322-1626-1_6

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“…These benefits may be accrued without the awareness of producers, of course, as where coffee growers maintain native trees for shade, mulch, soil nutrition, timber, or recreation rather than in support of pollination services or pest control (Abraham et al . ).…”

Section: From Agroecology To Producer Practicesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Other research has shown more complex or inconsistent effects, as where bats in Costa Rican coffee plantations do not provide benefits to production by mediating pest outbreaks, while birds do . These benefits may be accrued without the awareness of producers, of course, as where coffee growers maintain native trees for shade, mulch, soil nutrition, timber, or recreation rather than in support of pollination services or pest control (Abraham et al 2013).…”

Section: From Agroecology To Producer Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Political Ecology of Commodity Agroforests and Tropical Biodiversity

Robbins

Chhatre

Karanth

2015

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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Though human-modified tropical landscapes are increasingly well studied, the processes that influence and govern biodiversity outcomes, especially in commodity production landscapes (e.g., coffee, rubber, arecanut), remain poorly understood. A review of the existing literature reveals that research in general focuses on individual components of a cascading set of relationships from political and economic forces, to producer decisions, to agroforestry structure, to habitat and diversity. The linkages between these components remains underdeveloped; efforts to unite the full "chain of explanation" remains elusive, making it difficult to form firm claims or testable hypotheses about how the ecology and biodiversity of such commodity systems are determined. To form more robust hypotheses about such relationships would require more integrative team efforts than heretofore have been common. Our review suggests that though some important relationships are well-understood, and some emerging policy emphases can be identified, policy-relevant science is still on the horizon in this frontier area.

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Section: From Agroecology To Producer Practicesmentioning

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Section: From Agroecology To Producer Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Ecology of Commodity Agroforests and Tropical Biodiversity

Robbins

Chhatre

Karanth

2015

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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“…The risks that impact the sustenance of the coffee agro-forestry systems in the district have been analysed by Garcia et al (2010) and Abraham et al (2013). Given the variability in coffee production and the microclimatic environment required for sustenance of coffee within this changing landscape, the paper seeks to address the following specific objectives:…”

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Climate Variability Concerns for the Future of Coffee in India : An Exploratory Study

Chengappa¹,

Devika²

2016

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How Can High-Biodiversity Coffee Make It to the Mainstream Market? The Performativity of Voluntary Sustainability Standards and Outcomes for Coffee Diversification

Solér

Sandström

Skoog

2016

Environmental Management

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This article investigates the outcomes of mainstream coffee voluntary sustainability standards for high-biodiversity coffee diversification. By viewing voluntary sustainability standards certifications as performative marketing tools, we address the question of how such certification schemes affect coffee value creation based on unique biodiversity conservation properties in coffee farming. To date, the voluntary sustainability standards literature has primarily approached biodiversity conservation in coffee farming in the context of financial remuneration to coffee farmers. The performative analysis of voluntary sustainability standards certification undertaken in this paper, in which such certifications are analyzed in terms of their effect on mutually reinforcing representational, normalizing and exchange practices, provides an understanding of coffee diversification potential as dependent on standard criteria and voluntary sustainability standards certification as branding tools. We draw on a case of high-biodiversity, shade-grown coffee-farming practice in Kodagu, South-West India, which represents one of the world’s biodiversity “hotspots”.

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Conservation and Coffee Production: Creating Synergies in Kodagu, Karnataka

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Political Ecology of Commodity Agroforests and Tropical Biodiversity

Political Ecology of Commodity Agroforests and Tropical Biodiversity

Climate Variability Concerns for the Future of Coffee in India : An Exploratory Study

How Can High-Biodiversity Coffee Make It to the Mainstream Market? The Performativity of Voluntary Sustainability Standards and Outcomes for Coffee Diversification

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