Coffee that pays for shade
Shade trees cost a farmer yield today. In Lampung, the programme is connecting farmer groups to buyers who pay for the canopy.
A shaded coffee plot gives up some yield in exchange for a canopy that stays standing. For a household, that trade only makes sense if someone pays for it.
The programme connects gapoktan to buyers with verified shade requirements, so that keeping the canopy has a price attached. Gapoktan Sumber Rejeki, a farmer group working on agroforestry and coffee marketing, is one of the programme's partners in this, alongside KPH Batutegi.
Keeping the canopy has to have a price attached.
