In Gorongosa, in the southern end of the Great African Rift Valley in the heart of central Mozambique, coffee farmers sing a song that melodiously translates to “coffee for a better future”.
Here on a mountain enrobed in rainforest, women walk into the forest in the mornings, not to fetch firewood, but to pick coffee. This crop—once foreign in these lands—now grows under ancient green canopies, helping reverse the degradation of ecosystems and creating a case of coffee bushes restoring a deforested mountain area that once teemed with many indigenous trees. In Mozambique we can find a real live experiment in the possibility and promise of community-supported agriculture in coffee.
In a new feature for Sprudge Special Projects Desk, journalist Daniel Muraga reports on the great promise of coffee production in Mozambique, where the Gorongosa Coffee Project is changing lives while saving forests.
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