In central Costa Rica, coffee trees, intercropped with shade trees, are grown on steep slopes, subject to intense soil erosion. Using a typology of cropping practices combined with a model that serves to design cropping systems, a team from CIRAD has been able to design agroforestry systems that allevoate such erosion, in line with the complex relations between coffee trees and their environment.
via CIRAD - Actualités / News http://www.cirad.fr/news/all-news-items/articles/2013/science/coffee-shade-trees-and-erosion-in-costa-rica
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