Climate changes associated with higher temperatures, droughts and changes in rainfall patterns is a huge threat to the lives of coffee communities across the globe, including in Uganda. The use of agroforestry (AF) practices, i.e. planting of shade trees on coffee farms, is one of the recommended nature-based strategies against climate change. However, despite the widely known benefits of AF, only a small share of the world’s coffee production comes from this kind of shaded production systems. Why is this? This paradox is central in the research project “The Agroforestry Paradox - Climate Clever Coffee” (APCCO), which looks to uncover the biophysical interactions, local ecological knowledge and socioeconomics behind on-farm decisions relating to coffee-AFS and climate change. The project focuses on Robusta coffee, which is the commercially most important coffee species in Uganda, but has been partly neglected in coffee research.  The APCCO project is funded by the Min...