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Syntropic Coffee Farming: Insights from Ernst Götsch

In this module, we present Ernst Götsch's vision for transforming agriculture so that natural ecological processes, such as the integral water cycle, biogeochemical cycles, soil cover, and others are present and provide a suitable environment for growing plants and raising animals, increasing the resilience and productivity

What you will learn

  • How to transform coffee monoculture into a biodiverse and stratified agroforestry system, reversing the soil degradation process
  • Soil degradation process
  • How to introduce trees into an already established coffee monoculture
  • Tree and seed spacing
  • How to manage the agroforestry system with coffee as the flagship