it, but planting vast areas of land with spekboom requires lots of workers, like team leader johanna swartz, who was unemployed before the project began. >> there's a great change in my life because all the things that i need and i cannot buy before, i can buy it now. i don't struggle with money anymore. there's opportunities that i want to grab, too, things that i love. >> living lands is the local organization that brought farmers, poor residents, private business, and the government together under an umbrella group called presence. >> we facilitate the process towards our goal, and that is sustainable land use. it all started with research done for how to plant spekboom, and that involved in this process where you have to look at the whole product-integrated way. it's not only about planting spekboom. it is about restoring the rivers. it's restoring the alluvial fan n which we are sitting here now, and it's also restoring the mind-set of everybody with a stake on the landscape. >> the community has come together in a cohesive group to change the way they utilize their natural resources,