African Photo Contest📸🏆 by Antonia López

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antonialopezarango1 — 2025-08-05 19:02:13 UTC

Faces of change

WILSON MAINA - AVENIR Project water management training.

wilsonmaina — 2025-08-18 05:06:28 UTC

In the hot and dry climate of Tambacounda, Senegal and with expensive smart irrigation systems, AVENIR project introduced, small, lined ponds for water harvesting and micro-drip irrigation for kitchen gardens. This will enable these small-scale women farmers access to a more affordable smart irrigation systems for their daily supply of nutritious fruits and vegetables.

WILSON MAINA - AVENIR Project water resources management training.

wilsonmaina — 2025-08-18 05:14:59 UTC

Drip irrigation is expensive for most small-scale farmers. However, the micro-drip irrigation system enables these women to utilize a smaller and more affordable version for their kitchen gardens enhancing their daily diets of nutritious fruits and vegetables using little water in a harsh climate.

Iron Rich NARO bean

2025-08-26 09:16:23 UTC

Supporting PABRA

AVENIR Project, Senegal

2025-08-26 09:31:33 UTC

Farmer in Goudiry, Tambacounda (Senegal, 2024) learning mulching for home gardens under AVENIR project; boosting resilience to harsh heat through climate-smart soil and water practices.

Fighting against all odds

mkinyua — 2025-08-26 12:05:01 UTC

Greening the plate amidst biting dryness of the Sahel

Tractor-Supported Climate-Smart Agriculture for African Smallholder Farmers

2025-08-26 13:39:52 UTC

Sustainable farming pays off – a proud farmer in Narok County showcases a bountiful harvest of Nyota beans grown under conservation tillage, a powerful story of resilience, productivity, and healthier soils

Practice what you preach

2025-08-26 15:51:11 UTC

The Borana Women-Ethiopia

2025-08-27 08:49:38 UTC

She rises before dawn, a yellow container on her back, her steps heavy with both hope and burden. In her Borana village, water is life, yet it is never near. Some days the journey is two hours; in the dry season, it stretches to twelve-an endless road of dust and thirst. Along the way, she faces not only exhaustion and hunger but also the silent fear of violence that shadows her path. Every hour spent searching for water is an hour stolen from rest, from care, from livelihood. Her labor sustains her family, but at a cost-less time to produce food, less strength to nurture, and greater insecurity at home. Still, she walks, because to stop is to surrender. In her resilience lives both the struggle and the strength of Borana pastoralist women.