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How coffee is saving a unique Mozambican forest

From a distance, Mount Gorongosa looks pockmarked. But in recent years, the forest has been growing back, thanks to a previously foreign crop: coffee.

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Now he's back, teaching communities new ways of farming. "These people depended on subsistence farming, because they can't afford machinery like tractors. That turned them into agricultural nomads," he said. "So, they'd clear a few areas, and then deforestation stripped nutrients from the soil. The land got depleted, and when that happened, they'd go clear another patch."