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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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The peace treaty didn't solve the problems of communities on the mountain. "They didn't have the training or the means to transition from being itinerant farming to conservation farming," Muagara said. "We had to explain to them that when they lose a tree, they lose their livelihood with it."