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Coffee
Coffee farming originally developed in Africa as an understory crop beneath diverse shade trees that provided habitat for wildlife. In the 1970s and 1980s, as part of the general shift to 'technified agriculture,' development agencies such as the US Agency for International Development (USAID) helped fund the replacement of traditional shade-grown farming techniques with 'sun cultivation' techniques on plantations in Central America in order to increase yields. [more]

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