. Certification of forest coffee started in Ethiopia in 2002 with the aim to conserve the coffee forests and provide the peasants with … a better livelihood. This paper evaluates the forest coffee production and the related human encroachment in the forests … of the paper base on interviews conducted with forest coffee producers in nine certified and non-certified coffee …

in the so-called specialty coffee sector. Similar to the approach for wine in France and Italy, more and more coffee …-producing countries try to establish appellations systems for coffee. Whereas some countries and regions such as Colombia or Jamaica have … already legally protected GIs for coffee, most coffee GIs are still informal meaning that no legal protection has been …