INS 1-6 - Ecosystem service interaction in coffee systems: What do we know?

Monday, August 12, 2019
M108, Kentucky International Convention Center
Alejandra Martinez-Salinas, Agriculture, Livestock and Agroforestry Program, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center - CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Coffee is one of the most important tropical crops on earth, considering both its gross production value and the number of families that depend on it for their livelihoods. Coffee is cultivated within some of the most biodiverse habitats on earth, and its cultivation intensification has threatened biodiversity and critical ecosystem services to coffee production such as pollination by bees and pest control by birds. We reviewed available literature on these services and how they might change under future climate change. Although evidence is incomplete, managing coffee farms as diversified agroforestry systems could improve climate resilience to climate change.