Coffee is often regarded as one of the more environmentally friendly forms of agriculture, since the plants benefit from growing in woodland conditions and are

Coffee is often regarded as one of the more environmentally friendly forms of agriculture, since the plants benefit from growing in woodland conditions and are therefore often grown in mixed-species plantings (often marketed as shade-grown coffee), and they don't typically require much intensive or invasive management (such as repeatedly tilling the soil). I was lucky enough to see a number of these coffee farms firsthand when I did study abroad in Costa Rica as an undergrad ecology student. I was very impressed with them and the amount of biodiversity they hosted. They were certainly much, much better than nearly all of the agricultural alternatives I saw (especially banana farms, which exhibited by far the worst agricultural practices I have ever witnessed — and most of my career experience is in agricultural research, so I've seen a fair few).