Well, my title might be a bit of an exaggeration, despite the bean's magical properties. But this article describes how coffee trees that live in the shade of the forest growth, coffee trees bred to be resistant to what climate change could do to them, could help save the rain forest in Mozambique.
Climate-resistant coffee trees could save Mozambique rainforest
"MOUNT GORONGOSA, Mozambique, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Park warden Pedro Muagura sees hope for the future as he picks a ripe handful of cherry red coffee beans from a more resistant variety of coffee trees introduced to communities farming around Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park.
The prospect of a more reliable harvest from the crop, which thrives in the shade of indigenous trees, has given people living around Gorongosa a longer-term incentive to protect a rainforest that has lost more than 100 hectares of tree cover per year over the past four decades."
The article says that the trees are "resistant to pests, disease, drought and prolonged rainy seasons".
That is quite impressive.
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