friendly products). The time is right for designing and managing shaded cof-
fee plantations that are both productive and of high value for maintaining and
conserving biodiversity.
Acknowledgments
Andy Gillison and Götz Schroth provided valuable comments to improve the
quality of this chapter. Partial funding to Eduardo Somarriba was provided by
the CASCA Project (INCO, ICA4-2000-10327) and to Celia Harvey by the
European Community Fifth Framework Programme “Confirming the Role of
Community Research” (INCO, ICA4-CT-2001-10099).
Endnote
- A total of 136 coffee farms were studied in four coffee-growing regions in Costa Rica,
Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Study farms were selected randomly from lists of farmers
in local coffee associations and processing plants. A standard diagnostic method was
used in all cases. Land use sketches were prepared for each farm, depicting all coffee
plots (shade types, age, variety). One temporary 1,000-m^2 plot was established in the
largest and most representative coffee plot of the farm. All shade plants were identified
and counted. Only trees greater than 10 cm diameter at breast height were considered;
palms and fully developed banana stems were also counted. Results in Tables 9.1 and
9.2 come from these studies.
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