Skip to player
Skip to main content
Skip to footer
Search
Connect
Watch fullscreen
Like
Comments
Bookmark
Share
Add to Playlist
Report
A Niger woman makes her garden grow despite extreme weather
DW (English)
Follow
12/20/2024
Floods and drought have not stopped one Niger woman from producing delicious sustainable produce in her market garden. The circular economy approach that she uses is still unusual. But she's making it work against the odds.
Category
đź—ž
News
Transcript
Display full video transcript
00:00
She has created a little paradise,
00:04
resting two hectares of greenery from the sands of the village of Tondibia,
00:09
northwest of Niger's capital near May.
00:13
Her real name is Adum Rose Kenum, but everyone here
00:17
calls her Tanti Rose. For the past 15 years she has been cultivating this
00:21
piece of land but
00:23
in a unique way.
00:29
I chose to pursue agroecology
00:34
simply to protect the environment because this method
00:37
allows all the creatures we care for,
00:43
such as animals, living beings and people
00:47
to live in perfect symbiosis.
00:52
Still an exceptional approach in Niger.
00:57
There are almost 15 million hectares farmland covering just 12 percent of the
01:02
Sahel country's surface area,
01:04
even though 80 percent of the population depends on their gardens
01:07
or small farms for food.
01:14
Tanti Rose's garden is an example of the circular economy.
01:18
She discards nothing. She feeds plant scraps
01:22
to her chickens which in turn help her produce organic fertilizer.
01:27
Two compost heaps are turning into soil nutrients on her land
01:31
with tangible results. She harvests up to 300 kilos of lettuce
01:35
a year.
01:40
Every week her produce is sold at a small market in near May.
01:44
Her customers love the pleasing fragrance of her fruit and herbs.
01:48
The difference between her mint
01:51
and the mint of the market there is enormous.
01:56
When you just bring your hand close to your face,
01:58
you're overwhelmed by its high quality.
02:04
But her life's work was under threat by the end of August 2024.
02:09
The great floods of the Niger River had reached her land and
02:13
inundated her garden along the river.
02:15
She was in the process of hiring two Bukinabe laborers
02:19
when the catastrophe struck.
02:26
When she came to pick me up, she asked me if I knew how to garden.
02:30
I just told her, just give it a try and we'll see.
02:34
When we got here, the water was rising
02:37
and almost half the garden was flooded. But as you can see,
02:42
the river has now receded a lot and since then
02:45
we've started work.
02:49
Adam Rose Kenom hasn't given up.
02:53
The 50-year-old widow decided to turn a challenge into an opportunity
02:56
and try something new.
03:05
I used to grow tomatoes instead of rice.
03:07
Unfortunately, this year with the floods and the water rising from the ground,
03:11
I had to grow rice.
03:12
So I'm waiting to see how it will turn out.
03:17
While waiting for the rice to ripen, she pursues her other major project,
03:22
not only planting food, but also processing it,
03:25
such as a hibiscus drink called Bisap juice in West Africa.
03:30
It's still on a small scale, but she's about to realize her dream.
03:35
This is the factory that's under construction.
03:37
The juice production plant, it's a small unit.
03:40
It's not big.
03:42
She invests everything she earns.
03:44
Recently, she installed an irrigation system to show that planting and harvesting food
03:49
is possible even when the rains don't come like they used to due to climate change.
03:54
Her solution to that challenge is ecological farming.
03:58
Tanti Rose has become exemplary.
Recommended
4:44
|
Up next
How women are solving Ghana's water hyacinth scourge
DW (English)
9/25/2024
3:49
Ghana's 'mushroom queen' grows her fungi in sawdust
DW (English)
12/24/2020
3:47
England’s resilience shines through in Euro victory over Spain
The Star
today
2:26
Symbolic handshake ends Thailand-Cambodia fighting
The Star
today
3:58
Two bumiputra companies targeted for listing on Bursa this year, says Ahmad Zahid
The Star
today
3:05
Short track-Do you know what happens During sexual arousal inside the body_ what is the clitoris_
A To Z Videos
10/5/2022
6:30
Do you know how orgasm is in females_ female body and biology
A To Z Videos
10/5/2022
3:34
Funny Girl Videos Girls Oops On Game Show TV - Sexyyy Girls Fails
Aysesen2016
10/15/2015
3:33
DONT FAP (Omegle & Chatroulette Funny Moments #82)
Aysesen2016
10/14/2015
6:34
Maharashtra women farmers navigating drought and inequality
DW (English)
today
5:58
Luther – The revolutionary from Wittenberg
DW (English)
today
5:38
A solution to "ghost nets" in Kenya
DW (English)
today
4:51
The pub – Britain’s second living room?
DW (English)
yesterday
5:30
Hostage relative: Israeli and Palestinian suffering must end
DW (English)
yesterday
3:26
Singapore's capsule hotels go upscale as industry booms
DW (English)
2 days ago
3:24
In Israel, frustration grows as hostages remain in captivity
DW (English)
2 days ago
12:35
Arriving in Europe — how refugees deal with their trauma
DW (English)
2 days ago
4:44
Who pays, who kisses? Europe's first date rules
DW (English)
2 days ago
2:00
Labubu toys set out to take Germany by storm
DW (English)
3 days ago
5:20
Making it in Germany: Berlin's nail queen
DW (English)
3 days ago
2:54
How remote monitoring is reshaping Karachi's health care
DW (English)
3 days ago
1:28
Telemedicine reaches rural Nigeria
DW (English)
3 days ago
1:45
Cultural obstacles: Hybrid care builds trust in Pakistan
DW (English)
3 days ago
9:09
Testing the Fiat Grande Panda
DW (English)
3 days ago
4:45
What happened to 'African solutions to African problems?'
DW (English)
3 days ago