A ground-breaking 5-year research initiative in Brazil between Assembly Coffee, Volcano Coffee Works and Mió.
Sombra - 'shade' in Portugese - is being delivered by Assembly in collaboration with our sister brand Volcano Coffee Works, our green coffee partner - Mió, and the Federal Institute of Espírito Santo.
It aims to showcase how Brazil's ubiquitous monocrop, full-sun farming system - proven to decimate wildlife, degrade soil diversity and provide coffee plants with no protection from extreme weather events - can be reconfigured to harness the power of agroforestry.
Sombra will prove that agroforestry land management systems can help to mitigate the threat to the coffee industry of a rapi...