Organic coffee

Some organic fertilizer options include chicken manure, coffee pulp, bocachi and general compost.

[1] According to the center for Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education in Costa Rica (CATIE), 75% of the world's organic coffee comes from Latin America.

In addition, a number of Asian and African countries produce organic coffee, including Indonesia and Ethiopia.

[3] However, this trend is reversing as consumers increasingly demand organic goods and investors step in to supply loans with manageable interest rates.

Among other standards, this includes meeting the following requirements: Organic agriculture can strengthen the natural environment's resistance to disease.

Shade use and reforestation are aspects of the organic agricultural production of coffee that promotes healthy environmental effects.

[4] Afforestation in areas high in coffee agroforestry has shown positive results, including finance possibilities through carbon offsetting, insetting, and footprint reductions.

[5] Many would-be organic farmers lack the funding to establish environmentally friendly fertilizers to help their coffee grow at competitive rates.

[5] This means that farmers are not only growing healthy coffee, but they are putting vital nutrients back into their soils to help the next crop.

[6] This means that growing organic coffee is slower because the nutrients take time to release, thus slowing the growth rate of the plant.

The higher price tag of organic coffee can be attributed to many varying factors, one of which is ethical concern.

A study done in South Korea used the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to assess what motives were behind the choice of organic coffee and explored the concern for ethics here.