See Photographs of Dr. Cross's Visit To Shade Coffee Plantations Summer 2005 in Intibuca. See photographs of sites for next summer's Shade Coffee/Bird watching Tour August 2005.
This is a public seminar arranged by the ISAI Global Warming and Water Stewardship sector, under the framework of activities by the Institute's outreach Center. Shade grown coffee with its forest canopy serves as habitat for many birds that migrate from temperate North America to the New World Tropics each year. Indeed the habitats in the tropics will determine whether you will be able to see many birds in Arizona.
ISAI is a membership organization that coordinates Sustainable Economic Development projects by developing small scale to large scale group ecoindustrial projects within communities and consortiums. It is an organization focused on fighting global warming, facilitating worldwide tree planting projects for soil erosion control and carbon sequestration. Bird watching and ecotourism are key Sports Adventure Activities.
A key component of the Institute's outreach centers on environmental business development and the combining of ecotourism with sustainable ecodevelopment agricultural and forestry projects. Another area of interest of the Institute is reducing consumption and halting the loss of useful wastes. This is accomplished by working with local farmers and groups to develop projects that require complete utilization of agro/forestry/industrial wastes into useful products.
The Institute also is involved in facilitating global networking and the exchange of experiences amongst its network members. You are invited to join the seminar, to subscribe to the discussion list, please email to exportfacs@aol.com and write the message:
SUBSCRIBE Shade Coffee yourfirstname yourlastname
e.g. subscribe Shade Coffee Jane Warner.
For full information on the seminar (full abstract and about the author), please email exportfacs@aol.com and write the message: INFO Shade Coffee Forum
Shade grown coffee plantations are serving as biological corridors for neotropical birds we enjoy in the USA. Shade grown coffee has been the method of growing coffee for millennia. Yet now many groups are attacking this practice because of pressure from outside forces. Until recently, all coffee was grown under forests canopy. It is time to find out what is the scientific factors involved in growing coffee in shade versus sun. Therefore the ISAI is holding this online shade coffee seminar to investigate these and other questions.
Shade grown coffee offers habitats for many species of birds that migrate to the Northern hemisphere. Very few species of birds live in sun grown coffee. Sun Grown coffee is grown as a monoculture technified, highly chemicalized plant factory. That means that plants are planted very close together, heavy application of fertilizers and pesticides are used.
During the rainy season, these chemicals run off quickly into the ground water. When Hurricane Mitch came, these sun grown coffee plantations were unable to hold the massive amounts of water that came in, exacerbating the flood damage to the country. In contrast, shade grown coffee plantations held the water and prevented excessive runoff and mudslides.
WHAT DIFFERENCE CAN IT MAKE?
This is a question as applicable in Arizona as in any country in Latin America. That's because the birds we watch here require habitats in Latin America to survive. Is there a way to create a bird watching future for our state by supporting shade grown coffee. How can we ensure the coffee is truly shade grown? Produced by small farmers? How can we use our coffee dollars to preserve shade grown coffee plantations? And even become more proactive in sharing our personal expertise with small farmers in Latin America so they can keep on growing shade grown coffee?
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How can those of us who love to watch birds
participate in new efforts to assist small farmers in Latina
America to keep on growing their coffee under forest cover? Is
there a way to work with them to establish bird watching as an
economic component of their shade grown coffee projects? Can we
help stimulate cooperatives, design methods of sharing their
space with them, enabling them to grow shade grown us coffee,
enabling us to enjoy the birds? Can partnerships be forged
between small shade grown coffee campesinos and bird watchers in
the continental USA? What should be the components?
Can small financial packages to build trails, build benches or other amenities be put together by individual or groups of bird watchers? Could a long term contract to guarantee your right to watch birds and keep records be developed through a long term project? Would the small farmer have to offer food or other resources?. Would we be able to put together an organization to combine these two sectors? Who would pay for what? Can small holders build birding stands, prepare trails, prepare signs?
How far are we willing to go to ensure our right to view these birds? Can we develop a model that would also include carbon sequestration? How can we use the need of corporations or even individuals n paying carbon debts to help these smallholders to keep on growing shade coffee and keep our bird habitat intact?.
This online seminar will explore all these questions, come up with additional questions, more problems and share possible solutions.
Dr. Cross earned a PhD in Biology with Ecology Specialization from the University of Oregon in 1975. She has taught at the University of Oregon and Howard University. She also serve as a Mined Land Reclamation Specialist at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
She has been involved in tree planting and environmental consulting in Latin America for many years. She has served as a consultant in agricultural and agroforestry projects with large farmers as well as small scale farmers. She is an export on sustainable small scale agroforestry and small scale industry in developing countries.
Presently she is the Director of Soccer for Life, a Non profit organization. Soccer for Life is dedicated to making the beautiful game of soccer accessible to Youth At Risk in Arizona and street children in Honduras.
Dr. Cross is CoFounder of the International Sports Adventure Institute, an organization dedicated to creating a new method of sustainable development. This is the Sports Adventure Tourism Sustainable Economic Development Systems (SATSEDS) culture.
It's based on soccer and sports adventure focused through the pleasure and joy of participating and enjoying sports and Sports Adventure. It is developed through self esteem building, community development, Leadership Through Communication, environmental stewardship and the development of community, structure, meaning and a superordinate goal in groups.
Dr. Cross was in Honduras from October
28 to December 4, 2001 and visited shade coffee plantation. She
held the HonduCoffee 2002 Shade Coffee Seminar. This seminar
included research on birds in shade grown Coffee plantations.
HonduTree 2005 Tree Planting Coffee Experience
In the summer of 2005, you are invited to participate in HonduTree 2005 Tree Planting Coffee Experience. Some of the activities will include;
A local landowner is planning to develop a bird sanctuary/botanical garden on her property. She produces shade grown coffee on her property. We will be visiting her property and studying birds on mountain farm. There are many parts of her property which she has never seen. Areas untouched by logging or farming. No one has ever birded there. YOU COULD BE THE FIRST!
If you would like to enroll in this Online Seminar please contact Dr. Cross exportfacs@aol.com or give her a call at 602-564-9241.
To contact Dr. Cross by mail, write to her in Honduras.
Indigenous groups and native people anywhere in the world who have access to the internet can get assistance in setting up a Spirit Land Tourism project. Spirit Lands Tourism is community tourism and must involve a group or tribe. Contact Dr. Carol Cross at exportfacs@aol.com.Or write her at Dr. Carol Cross, 6013 W. Monte Cristo, Glendale, AZ 85306. |
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