CoCE
CoCE ( C onservation and use of the wild populations of C. offea arabica in the montane rainforests in E thiopia) is the name of a research project and stands for the conservation and use of wild populations of Arabica coffee in the mountain rain forests of Ethiopia . The overall goal of the CoCE project is to combine the conservation of the genetic diversity of wild coffee and the diversity of species and ecosystems within the montane rainforest.
The project is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It is carried out by the Center for Development Research (ZEF) in Bonn and the Ethiopian Coffee Forest Forum (ECFF) in Ethiopia.
background
The mountain rainforests in southeast Ethiopia are the cradle of the wild Coffea arabica , the archetype of a large part of the modern commercially used coffee breeds . Due to the shrinking size of the mountain rainforests due to clearing , the precious resource of wild arabica coffee is increasingly threatened.
At the end of the 1960s, 40 percent of the land area in Ethiopia was covered by dense forest, the proportion of which has since shrunk to 2.7 percent. The former kingdom of Kaffa in the south-west of the country is now part of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Region, one of the nine ethnic divisions of Ethiopia. The rapidly developing small town of Bonga is the economic center of the Kaffa region. In the Kaffa region, only 200,000 hectares of undisturbed afromontane rainforest have been preserved. However, their existence is extremely threatened, as the pressure on this forest region - due to the growing population, infrastructure measures such as road construction and investor plans - is growing steadily.
List of the most important partner institutions
- Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Bonn, Germany
- Bureau for Environmental and Ecological-Economic Assessment (BETA), Wageningen , Netherlands
- Center de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Montpellier , France
- Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro (CIFC), Oeiras , Portugal
- Department of Biology Education , University of Addis Ababa , Ethiopia
- Department of Biology , University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Addis Ababa , Ethiopia / Eschborn , Germany
- EcoSecurities, Environmental Finance Solutions , Oxford , United Kingdom
- Ethiopian Coffee Forest Forum (ECFF), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Ethiopian Economic Association (EEA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- EU Coffee Improvement Program (CIP IV)
- Evolve - Consulting for Sustainable Development , Kirchzarten , Germany
- GEO protects the rainforest e. V., Hamburg , Germany
- Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (IBC), Addis Ababa , Ethiopia
- Institute for Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn, Germany
- Institute for Plant Nutrition , University of Bonn, Germany
- International Coffee Genome Network (ICGN), Montpellier, France
- Jima Agricultural Research Center , Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR, former EARO), Jimma , Ethiopia
- Mondelēz International , Bremen, Germany
- Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture - Resource Economics , Humboldt University , Berlin , Germany
- Learning processes for sustainable development , Wuppertal , Germany
- National Herbarium of Ethiopia , Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants , University of Bonn, Germany
- Regional Coffee Producer Associations , Ethiopia
- Science Development , Wuppertal, Germany
Web links
- CoCE project website of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (English)
- GEO - saving the coffee forests in the Kaffa region of Ethiopia
- EU Coffee Improvement Program (CIP IV) (PDF document, 142 kB, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ GEO - Saving the coffee forests in the Kaffa region of Ethiopia. Retrieved June 30, 2012