Resources

The Yoro Biological Corridor is a science-based program. Key scientific studies and presentations pertaining to the Yoro Biological Corridor and associated Yoro Model activities. Studies focus on sustainable coffee production in conjunction with forest and migratory bird conservation.

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A sustainability framework based on threats, consequences, and solutions (TCS) for managing watershed commonsDownload

Framework designed to best respond to ecological threats across shared landscapes, and useful for analyzing whether or not big solutions actually affect and reflect the things that people really care about at the grassroots level. (Dec 2023)

Authors: Ana Lorena Quiñónez Camarillo, and Timothy O. Randhir

Afforestation efforts for golden-winged warblers and other forest-associated species in HondurasDownload

Study that validates earlier findings that IOC farms provide much-needed habitat for the warblers not found in other coffee farming scenarios; Results that were originally demonstrated in Costa Rica and confirmed by Murillo’s study in Honduras. (Aug 2023)

Authors: David Murillo, Darío Alvarado, Fabiola Rodríguez-Vásquez, Caz Taylor, and David I. King.

Integrated Open Canopy Poster SCA2022Download

Presentation poster on Integrated Open Canopy™ (IOC™) land-sparing coffee farming created for SCA Specialty Coffee Expo in Boston. (2022)

Authors: David Murillo, Darío Alvarado, Fabiola Rodríguez-Vásquez, Caz Taylor, and David I. King.

Generating Best Management Practices for Bird and Forest ConservationDownload

Research-based recommendations for the application of land-sparing coffee production designed to conserve forest-dependent wildlife. (i.e. Integrated Open Canopy™). (2021)

Authors: Jeffrey D. Ritterson, David I. King, Raul Raudales, Richard Trubey, and Richard B. Chandler.

A Small-Scale Land-Sparing Approach to Conserving Biological Diversity in Tropical Agricultural LandscapesDownload

Study that examines land-sharing models of forest conservation vs. land-sparing models, by analyzing and comparing bird population studies on shade coffee farms (land-sharing) with Integrated Open Canopy™ (IOC™) coffee farms (lands-sparing). (2013)

Authors: Richard B. Chandler, David I. King, Raul Raudales, Richard Trubey, Carlin Chandler, and Víctor Julio Chávez Arce.

Measuring the Environmental Costs of Coffee ProductionDownload

Study that examines coffee’s global environmental impacts, including: energy, water, and land use, as well as loss of forest. Particular attention is paid to the unsustainable use of forest wood being as a main source of energy for processing coffee in Central America. (2009)

Authors: Víctor Julio Chávez Arce, Raul Raudales, Richard Trubey, David I. King, Richard B. Chandler, and Carlin C. Chandler.

The Yoro Model is a model of producing coffee designed to restore and conserve forest on private lands (coffee farms) that is currently being demonstrated and refined in Yoro, Honduras.

The Yoro Model

The first forest corridor in to reach the official submission process for legal protection status, making use of a unique forest protection law.

The Forest Corridor

Plants, animals and people are all intrinsic to biodiversity protection in the Corridor, which provides critical habitat for forest-dwelling species.

The Biodiversity

The Yoro Biological Corridor (YBC) enables local communities work together and improve living conditions via stable green employment; With a special emphasis on women, youth training & forest conservation.

The Community

The Yoro Biological Corridor and website is managed by the engineers, conservation scientists, and coffee growers active in developing The Yoro Model.

The Team

Videos are supplied by various stakeholders and illustrate the model and its on-the-ground activities..

Videos

Key scientific studies and presentations pertaining to the Yoro Biological Corridor and associated Yoro Model activities.

Published Research