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‘Taste this, it’s salty’: How rising seas are ruining the Gambia’s rice farmers

Traditionally, rice farming in the Gambia has been mostly done by women, while their male counterparts look after the groundnuts. But for years now the female farmers have watched as the land around them becomes increasingly difficult to manage.

Meet the African farmer growing rice in New York's Hudson Valley

Meet the African farmer growing rice in New York's Hudson Valley

Following the Jola traditions of Gambia, and made possible by the region's warming climate, Nfamara Badjie is cultivating rice in an unusual setting—and harvesting to the rhythm of the African drum.
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