What does landscape-level biodiversity conservation look like in practice? What does the future of food demand from farmers, ecologists, and communities? Arshiya Bose of Black Baza Coffee works at the intersection of coffee, conservation, and community. She asks how we can think about biodiversity not just plot by plot, but at a landscape level, and what it takes to build systems that support ecological health over time. In this session, she shares insight into her work educating and training farmers in biodiversity-aligned practices, the indigenous communities who carry traditional ecological knowledge of the forest, and what those knowledge systems tell us about growing coffee in tune with the living world around it.

Attendees will understand what biodiversity conservation looks like beyond the individual farm, and how coffee production can be a vehicle for ecological and community resilience.