Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. Coffee is being produced in some of the world’s important biodiversity hotspots, occupying large areas at mid elevations in the tropics. Building up resilience to increasing climate variability is a challenge faced not only by coffee farmers. Practitioners and researchers ask: What is the relationship between fostering biodiversity in the coffee agroecosystem and its economic performance? Could Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) promote a shift to sustainable smallholder coffee production? What are the essential elements of cost-effective Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices in coffee landscapes?Moderators: Michael Opitz, Managing Director, Hanns R. Neumann StiftungSjoerd Panhuysen, Program Manager productive landscapes, HivosSpeakers: Stine Albrecht, International Coordinator, Hanns R. Neumann FoundationMario Cerutti, Green Coffee Corporate Relations Director, LavazzaHorst Freiberg, Head of Division for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Management of Forests, Biological Diversity and Climate Change, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear SafetyIna Porras, Senior Economist, International Institute for Environment and DevelopmentIvannia Quesada Villalobos, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Costa RicaMerling Preza Ramos, General Manager, coffee cooperative ProdecoopRobério Oliveira Silva, Executive Director, International Coffee OrganizationPieter van Midwoud, Director Business Development for Land Use & Forests, Gold Standard FoundationPita Verweij, Researcher, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable DevelopmentMaarten Zonneveld, Associate Scientist, Bioversity InternationalSaturday, 5 December 2015 Global Landscapes Forum, Paris, France #GLFCOP21 #ThinkLandscape For more information go to: www.landscapes.org Humanist Institute for Co-operation with Developing Countries (HIVOS), International Coffee Organization (ICO), Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung, Coffee & Climate
