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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>In Gorogonsa, at the southern end of the Great African Rift Valley in the heart of central Mozambique these women are not heading to a common plantation. They are coffee pickers.<\/p>\n

The once foreign crop now grows in the midst of this rainy forest reversing the degradation of ecosystems.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe relationship between the indigenous plants and the coffee is that coffee does grow very well in the shade and the community has destroyed this Gorongosa mountain, so we have put in an objective to reforest it, Juliasse Sabao, a project supervisor for the Gorongosa National Park, says. So, with the coffee we are very successful here bringing back the Gorongosa forest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sabao discovered coffee during his refugee years in Zimbabwe. At the end of the war in Mozambique, he brought that knowledge back with him to help restore the mountain. Clearcutting had exposed the mountainous soil and parched it, leaving only shrubs and grasses. Now, for every coffee plant, a tree is planted to bring the needed shade to grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore all this area was dead, Sabao says poiting at the soil. no trees, no nothing was here. Now if you look you see big trees coming back so there\u2019s a very big difference, which means we are successful in our project for reforestation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local communities picked up the new ways of farming. Since coffee plants take several years to become productive, the reforestation programme provides for locals to grow other food crops to order to support themselves. For Sofia Molina, a manager of \u2018Natural products of Gargonza\u2019, this condition was essential:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe interest the communities around the mountains of Gargonza in reforestation through additional income, creating additional income through coffee but also intercropping with other cultures while the coffee is growing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The World Bank says Gorongosa now has some 300,000 coffee plants as well as 400,000 cashew trees, 400 beehives and 300 new jobs.<\/p>\n

Gorongosa coffee is exported around the world, with profits ploughed back into the plantation.<\/p>\n

One coffee plant at a time, the rain forest is becoming verdant again.<\/p>\n

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