{"id":280971,"date":"2018-05-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=b799d17f97c01ff5080af36035fa05f0"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:36:33","slug":"wild-coffee-and-ethiopias-last-rainforests-harvesting-as-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/280971","title":{"rendered":"Wild coffee and Ethiopia\u2019s last rainforests: harvesting as conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia is the genetic home of <strong>Arabica coffee<\/strong>, and some of the country\u2019s last moist Afromontane forests still hold wild and semi-wild coffee stands. German and Ethiopian conservation projects have long argued that if local farmers can earn a living from carefully harvested forest coffee, they have a stronger incentive to keep the canopy standing.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-356500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ethiopian-coffee.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Wild coffee and Ethiopia\u2019s last rainforests: harvesting as conservation\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Reporting around 2018 on \u201ccoffee that saves rainforest\u201d focused on investor-backed and NGO-linked wild-coffee value chains in southwest Ethiopia, where deforestation for farmland and plantations threatens biodiversity and the coffee gene pool itself.<\/p>\n<p>The lasting research angle for Horn audiences is clear: coffee is not only an export crop, it is also a conservation and climate story. Protecting forest coffee landscapes matters for rural livelihoods, genetic diversity for global coffee breeding, and the survival of remnant highland rainforests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/wirtschaft\/arm-und-reich\/wildkaffee-aus-aethiopien-soll-den-regenwald-retten-15611805.html\">Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/1189\/\">UNESCO \/ coffee origins context<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der Kaffee, der den Regenwald rettet&nbsp;&nbsp;F.A.Z. &#8211; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\u00c4thiopiens letzte Regenw\u00e4lder sind von Abholzung bedroht. Deutsche Investoren hatten eine Idee: Wenn lokale Bauern Wild-Kaffee ernten, werden sie den &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":356500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ethiopian-coffee.jpg?fit=301%2C167&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1b5N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599915,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280971\/revisions\/599915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}