Its 500 producers, who speak only Keqchi and Pokomchi, grow coffee and cardamom on shady forested plots in the buffer zone of the magnificent cloud forest of Sierra de las Minas.

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Demand for coffee should grow in the years ahead, largely driven by new consumption from developing countries.

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The One Million Trees initiative will help five coffee co-operatives grow shade trees to protect crops and establish tree nurseries.

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Emily Kerr: Five years from now, Liga Masiva is working with thousands of organic small-scale farmers across Latin America, who grow everything from artisan vanilla, to cacao, to coffee.

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They soon found that much of the rain forest that would have harbored coffee trees in the past had been clear cut to grow corn, bananas and grass for livestock.

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