According to the International Coffee Organization, “The global spread of coffee cultivation and consumption began in the Horn of Africa, where, according to legend, coffee trees coffees originated in the Ethiopian province of Kaffa” (“The History of Coffee”). So, it was from this Ethiopian plateau that the original shade-grown coffee found its way to the Middle East, Europe, and the rest of the world through trade and colonization. And since then the demand for coffee has grown rapidly along with the increase in global trade, economy and population until reaching this modern era where coffee has become the second most sought after commodity right away after crude oil, creating a multi-billion dollar coffee industry Unfortunately, the increased demand for coffee has not meant increasing the level of coffee production through the traditional holistic method of shade-grown coffee – where the coffee plants are grown. grown under the canopy of tropical forests, which in turn helps the natural environment in many cases. ways – but rather many industries have developed and adopted new varieties of solar coffee – in which monoculture coffee plantations are made of coffee plants, made tolerable to sunlight and grown in large acres while destroying tropical forests along with natural habitat of many other plants, animals, insects and birds – to produce large quantities of coffee. So, this new sun-grown coffee growing system, although it produces “three times more coffee than a shade bush per year,” yet is not a better alternative to the old shade-grown coffee system that had originates on the African continent, as this The sun-grown coffee system causes various environmental problems such as loss of habitat for animal and bird species, soil erosion due to deforestation and the use of which... half of paper ...problems with solar coffee." Coffee & Conservation. 5 2 2006. Web. January 14, 2014. .Rice, "Migratory Bird Center." of America's. Web. January 15, 2014. "Coffee Prices May Rise Thanks to increasing demand in India." HuffPost 3 08 2013, n Impacts of climate change." ScienceDaily 10 10 2008, n. page Web. 15 January. 2014. .