Gorongosa is now employing coffee to restore their rainforests and provide a sustainable financing mechanism for human development and conservation initiatives in and around the park. Partnering with specialty green bean coffee experts, community farmers plant coffee seedlings alongside native rainforest saplings to produce shade-grown coffee and giving local farmers livelihoods that now enable reforestation instead of deforestation. Our goal is that in 5 years, sales from the coffee and future natural products we export from Gorongosa will fund the majority of the park's annual operating budget. We are pioneering this new model for financing conservation and are passionate about sharing the model and replicating it to other conservation areas if we can get proof of concept for Gorongosa.
Gorongosa Coffee is grown on Mount Gorongosa in partnership with local farmers to provide a sustainable livelihood integrated into the land-use management plans of Gorongosa National Park to restore the rich rainforests of Mount Gorongosa.
