a woman sifting dust in a barrenn field

“It’s 30 years since we grew anything…”

This piece on Exposure explores climate impacts, and possible solutions, in Senegal and The Gambia on the West African coast.

 

“This is a recent problem, it wasn’t here when we were young because we were harvesting a lot of rice and it lasted all year to the next rainy season.”

 

Senegal photos by Clément Tardif;  Gambia photos by Jane Hahn.

Words and video, Peter Murphy.