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Field Notes: Planting Seeds for Change in Sierra Leone

| Michelle Fish

They have been growing coffee in the upcountry of Sierra Leone for generations. But after the Civil War of the 1990s, and the devastating Ebola outbreak in 2014, all of the institutional knowledge about coffee is gone. What remains are people struggling to tend their coffee fields, living in desperate conditions. But Kadiatu Allie has a plan that could change everything.