High temperatures have not stopped Foureyratou Saidou, a single mother of four and recent widow, from tending to the community garden next to the village. "In this garden, we now grow and harvest onions, tomatoes, lettuce, and other vegetables that we eat and that we can sell in the local market," she says. Her leafy garden represents a step towards cultivating land into a livelihood. "Turning around these numbers requires not only short-term actions but, above all, actors coming together to implement more sustainable and transformative solutions at an impactful scale," WFP Niger Country Director Jean-Noel Gentile said. "I want the garden to grow bigger, so that we have more to sell and more income to invest in the family and in the community."

Source: The North Africa Journal June 17, 2023 07:54 UTC