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Journey to Ribeira Grande, one of the most spectacular road trips a visitor to Cape Verde can experience. This agricultural island also farms yams, cassava, bananas, mangoes, and grain. See also slide "Mountainside Farming, "CV-81-091.

Another example of mountainside farming. The island is fertile and once produced maize and beans not only for their own use, but for export. Today, due to the 1940's famine and landowner's turning large parts of the land to sugar cane growth, the…