https://www.kmfarah.com/travel daily 0.75 2024-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1562626884013-AWYZKA3GOUQ6VSJK1ZVG/DDB_SP_01.jpg Travel Stories - Taking it Easy in Dadaab Refugee Camp Shot for True Africa Just before sunset, Dadaab’s unforgiving landscape is transformed into football pitches and volleyball courts. And for a few hours a day, laughter and joy penetrate the air in the refugee camp. Players arrive an hour before the match to prepare the fields. They draw lines in the sand that serve as the boundaries for the pitch, removing thorny branches, large rocks and any other obstacles. After a few minutes of play, however, gusts of wind erase the lines. That is where spectators come in, doing double duty as supporters and linesmen. A few miles away, on the eastern side of the camp, South Sudanese refugees string up a volleyball net on two wooden posts. Teams are inclusive with male and female players and coaches. “When we play, it’s just us and the ball. The only thing we worry about is getting it between the goal. When we play, there is no refugee, no hunger, no thirst. Just happiness.” Mahad, 17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1562732393038-SEU4J99B5O6NWSPQ50P5/330FEFE3-7B1D-4B02-8CA7-85848DC0050A.JPG Travel Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1557751434662-6NKZG57SGS9TVKXDE8B5/DSCF0609+1.jpg Travel Stories - Life during a drought In 2017 a drought gripped Somalia when rains failed for three seasons in a row, leaving more than 6 million people, half the country's population, facing food shortages with several water supplies becoming undrinkable due to the possibility of infection. This series of photographs were shot for Action Against Hunger Somalia between April and December 2017. — We found Mahad Abdulaziz walking his father's camels from Biyo-Cade to their home several miles away. Biyo-Cade is a secluded village located on the bottom of a dried river valley. Without a car, one has to walk long distances over large, rocky ravines to get to it. "It is the only source of water for a long time. It's the only place we can take our animals to drink," says Mahad. The skeletal appearance of the camel shows how the severe drought has affected them. 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Through Julia and Hawa’s writing–and their own personal stories–the women, and the stories behind the recipes, come to life. With evocative photography shot on location by Khadija Farah, and food photography by Jennifer May, In Bibi’s Kitchen uses food to teach us all about families, war, loss, migration, refuge, and sanctuary.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1584893030969-GX1FL6OB7R2ONVYEPWZB/36+hrs+tearsheet+copy.jpg Tearsheets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1588602666163-6FOFP35VCE0MZ2KULCSW/tearsheet+copy.jpg Tearsheets Tanzanian Cartoonist Has a Stick for Every Powerful Eye- The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1582573888541-41F2YT0WF4SNAGHPN401/Screen+Shot+2020-02-24+at+10.43.54+PM.png Tearsheets Kenyan Painter Casts Eye on China’s Role in Africa- The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1582573863375-9NTL8JPX4TMTVSWUB24U/Screen+Shot+2020-02-24+at+10.50.26+PM.png Tearsheets ‘Like an Umbrella Had Covered the Sky’: Locust Swarms Despoil Kenya- The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1622260529657-SC6H2TH7JR2KZZ9J18N9/Bistandsaktuelt-+Gado.png Tearsheets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1582573081282-JLNDU7MOPI8MSCSX7ZVD/Screen+Shot+2020-02-24+at+10.35.57+PM.png Tearsheets “Kenya’s blood banks are running dry after the U.S. ended aid — and a baby’s life is at risk” - The Washington Post https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1576098554804-EXESL4TR38L7N779COLU/Screen+Shot+2019-12-05+at+11.02.51+PM.png Tearsheets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1576098541925-9ESD9V4IKI4CQ4XNC0T0/Screen+Shot+2019-12-11+at+10.49.39+PM.png Tearsheets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1576099717637-0KTKC8FSVWGJW451N071/Screen+Shot+2019-12-12+at+12.27.37+AM.png Tearsheets https://www.kmfarah.com/environment daily 0.75 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1562564670036-DZ9DBPXVNJB1JQZLHD4E/DSCF1531.jpg Environment and Climate - Zanzibar's Seaweed Farmers In Zanzibar, seaweed is harvested mainly by women and exported world wide and used mostly in the cosmetics industry, where it is used as a thickening agent. We wade through the low tide in Paje to the farm, wooden posts driven into the sand with seaweed strung on them to prevent them floating away. Seaweed grows underwater for roughly 45 days and when it reaches one kilogram, it is picked and dried in the sun. After the seaweed dries, it is then transformed into organic soaps, scrubs, body butters etc. Climate change, however, threatens seaweed harvests yearly. Since 2011, farmers have experienced serious problems of die-off and diseases resulting into decreased production mainly caused by a severe case of ice-ice disease that occurs during extremely high water temperature in the hot/dry season. Fisheries and aquaculture play a huge role in livelihood and food security in Zanzibar. Seaweed alone contributes 7.6 per cent of Zanzibar’s total GDP. With average temperatures on the island projected to increase by as much as 2º C by 2050, the 23,000 seaweed farmers who rely on this plant are in danger of losing their livelihoods in the next few years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1562726953059-IYILUAD1Z0X8ERIE3J4R/IMG_1268.jpg Environment and Climate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1714764483735-0VRLTO4MKYSZGZLUYWZO/oltepesi-8.jpg Environment and Climate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1714746096470-N6Y1R8LHFZA4HIGF0E7I/cli-uganda-4.jpg Environment and Climate As global warming threatens the two main varieties, coffee growers in Uganda are betting on a type that can stand up to heat, drought and pests. Read more at The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1714741740494-TPRGUH7K53JX8B8ILNQF/kenya_lakes-5.jpg Environment and Climate When he was a child, James Owuor loved hearing the elders talk about the way life used to be. So it comes as something of a surprise that at 38, he is now the one tasked with the job of describing the Before Times in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Before Lake Baringo started to rise, before it flooded and stole everything he knew. [Read more at TIME] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1583968744300-3VAHMKWLP1H6SV89BOU7/plastic_kenya-4.jpg Environment and Climate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1714748409343-YUB2X3NJW4EALGWBO39U/locusts_kenya-31.jpg Environment and Climate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57c6a8e42994ca88ec540b27/1714743500407-K0LHMYVHE4X85RUDZO7Y/DSCF0314-2.jpg Environment and Climate When it comes to growing food, some of the smallest farmers in the world are becoming some of the most creative farmers in the world. Like Judith Harry and her neighbors, they are sowing pigeon peas to shade their soils from a hotter, more scorching sun. They are planting vetiver grass to keep floodwaters at bay. They are resurrecting old crops, like finger millet and forgotten yams, and planting trees that naturally fertilize the soil. A few are turning away from one legacy of European colonialism, the practice of planting rows and rows of maize, or corn, and saturating the fields with chemical fertilizers. “One crop might fail. Another crop might do well,” said Ms. Harry, who has abandoned her parents’ tradition of growing just maize and tobacco and added peanuts, sunflowers, and soy to her fields. “That might save your season.” It’s not just Ms. Harry and her neighbors in Malawi, a largely agrarian nation of 19 million on the front lines of climate hazards. Their scrappy, throw-everything-at-the-wall array of innovations is multiplied by small subsistence farmers elsewhere in the world. 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