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Kenya Food and Farming

These images for Vital Signs feature highland tea production and small-holder farmers and fishermen from the Yala Swamp in Southern Kenya.

Conservation International (2015)

Leonard Mwiti picks tea, an important cash crop, along the edge of a protected area in the Aberdare Mountains near Nyeri, Kenya. Vital Signs data can help determine which regions will support agricultural intensification in a changing climate.
Leonard Mwiti picks tea in the Aberdare Mountains near Nyeri.
Luisiana Wawira and others pick tea in the Aberdare Mountains near Nyeri.
Luisiana Wawira picks tea in the Aberdare Mountains near Nyeri.
Luisiana Wawira picks tea in the Aberdare Mountains near Nyeri.
Tea picker, Aberdare Mountains near Nyeri.
100m buffer of tea planted in 1986 to stop forest encroachment.
Erastus collects milk from local producers. Tea and dairy are the main livelihoods here.
Fedis Nyambura weeds her maize fields in the Aberdare Mountains.
Fedis Nyambura weeds her maize fields in the Aberdare Mountains.
Aberdare Mountains, Nyeri.
Erastus collects milk from local producers. Tea and dairy are the main livelihoods here.
Erastus collects milk from local producers. Tea and dairy are the main livelihoods here.
Fields in the Rift Valley.
Industrial-scale tea plantation in the Kenyan Highlands.
Industrial-scale tea plantation in the Kenyan Highlands.
Papyrus along the edge of Lake Kanya Boli in the Yala Swamp.
A fishermen paddles a canoe along the edge of Lake Kanya Boli in the Yala Swamp.
Fish from Lake Kanya Boli.
Maize fields in the Yala Swamp. Other crops are eaten by wildlife.
In the heat of the day, Evelyn Adhiambo leaves her maize field near Kadenge in the Yala Swamp.
Evelyn Adhiambo in her maize field near Kadenge in the Yala Swamp.
Impenetrable papyrus lines the shores of Lake Kanya Boli in the Yala Swamp.
Lake Kanya Boli, Yala Swamp.
Denis Ouma and Benson Ohiambo fish with a gillnet in Lake Kanya Boli in the Yala Swamp.
Denis Ouma and Benson Ohiambo fish with a gillnet in Lake Kanya Boli in the Yala Swamp, Kenya. Fish provide a critical nutritional staple to many communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Denis Ouma and Benson Ohiambo fish with a gillnet in Lake Kanya Boli in the Yala Swamp.
Denis Ouma and Benson Ohiambo fish with a gillnet in Lake Kanya Boli in the Yala Swamp.
Benson Ohiambo and Denis Ouma return after a sucessful fishing trip on Lake Kanya Boli in the Yala Swamp.
Benson Ohiambo and Denis Ouma return after a sucessful fishing trip on Lake Kanya Boli in the Yala Swamp.
Benson Ohiambo and Denis Ouma head home after a sucessful fishing trip on Lake Kanya Boli in the Yala Swamp.
Lake Kanya Boli, Yala Swamp.
Millicent Awino prepares ugali for the evening meal in Kadenge, Yala Swamp.
Millicent Awino prepares ugali for the evening meal in Kadenge, Yala Swamp.
Stree vendors offer vegetables to John Wawyama.
Street vendors offer lemons, beets, tomatoes and peas to driver John Wawyama.
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