
Fresh Grounds: The Search for the World's Rarest Coffee
The Food Programme
The Search for Stonefille in Siera Leon
Before the civil war insira was a medium sized coffee producer, selling about 20 thousand tons a year. But then during the civil war, the coffee and cocoa plantations were abandoned. After some searching, we found just one plant in the acasewe forest reserve. The reserve is largely deforested, as there's a few small patches of forest about about 500 meters across that still are left son two or three hilltops.
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