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Rwanda Food and Farming

These images for Vital Signs were made in the heavily terraced highlands, just outside of Nyungwe National Park.

Conservation International (2015)

Nyirabazungu Anonciate holds her cow while her son mucks out the pen in the village of Uwinka, Rwanda.
Mayira Boniface cleans out his cow's pen in Uwinka, Rwanda. By keeping their cows enclosed, farmers like Mayira can generate compost to use on his family's heavily terraced fields .
Cow in a pen.
Mayira Boniface opens the door to his cow's pen.
Mukamugambi Clementine chops firewood.
Mayira Boniface washes his hands with water poured by his wife, Muhawenimana Sandrine. Baby Mukamugambi Clementine looks on.
Mayira Boniface grabs a banana with his daughter, Muhawenimana Sandrine.
Mayira Boniface eats a banana in his home. He maintains water sampling equipment for Vital Signs.
Muhawenimana Sandrine.
Nyirabazungu Anonciate sorts beans for planting.
Nyirabazungu Anonciate sorts beans for planting.
Mukamugambi Clementine.
Mukamugambi Clementine peels potatoes with her daughter in the village of Uwinka, Rwanda.
Mukamugambi Clementine peels potatoes with Mukamugambi Clementine.
Mukamugambi Clementine cooks potatoes and beans for her family, Uwinka, Rwanda.
Mukamugambi Clementine cooks potatoes and beans.
Mukamugambi Clementine cooks potatoes and beans.
Mukamugambi Clementine cooks potatoes and beans.
Mukamugambi Clementine feeds Muhawenimana Sandrine while Mayira Boniface looks on.
L-R: Hagenimana Innocent, Nyirabazungu Anonciate, Mayira Boniface, Muhawenimana Sandrine (baby), Mukamugambi Clementine.
L-R: Mayira Boniface, Muhawenimana Sandrine (baby), Mukamugambi Clementine, Nyirabazungu Anonciate, Hagenimana Innocent.
Muhawenimana Sandrine (baby), Mukamugambi Clementine, and grandmother Nyirabazungu Anonciate.
Fields near Uwinga.
Bean trellises frame terraced fields in the village of Uwinka, Rwanda. Rwandan farmers terrace their hillsides to maximize their food output.
Farm fields around Uwinka.
Farm fields around Uwinka.
Laurence picks tea along the edges of Nyungwe National Park in Ghana.
Tea pickers Franciene and Laurence.
Laurence.
Franciene.
Tea pickers near Nyungwe National Park.
Holes ready for planting.
Tea and vegetables share terraces in the village of Uwinka, Rwanda.
Farm fields in Uwinka.
Farm fields in Uwinka.
Bean trellises.
Beatrice Mukamoheri collectes bean leaves with Aloys Seburikoko.
Beatrice Mukamoheri harvests young bean leaves with Aloys Seburikoko in Uwinka, Rwanda.
Children collect water in Uwinka.
Children collect water in Uwinka.
Children collect water in Uwinka.
Children collect water in Uwinka, Rwanda. They must carry it from the valley bottom back to their ridge-top homes.
Children collect water in Uwinka.
Children collect water in Uwinka.
Children collect water in Uwinka.
Children collect water in Uwinka.
Nyirabazungu Leonile plants sweet potatoes.
Nyirabazungu Leonile mixes in eucalyptus leaves and manure before planting sweet potatoes in her heavily terraced fields in the Rwanda highlands. To achieve food security in Africa, farmers like Nyirabazungu need to increase productivity while sustaining the ecosystems that provide them with healthy soils, clean water and other benefits.
Nyirabazungu Leonile plants sweet potatoes.
Nyirabazungu Leonile plants sweet potatoes.
Aloys Seburikoko tends his kitchen garden with Beatrice Mukanoheri.
Aloys Seburikoko tends his kitchen garden.
Beatrice Mukanoheri.
Nyirahabimana Appauline farms rice in the Rwasave plantation near Cyayove.
Nyirahabimana Appauline farms rice in the Rwasave plantation near Cyayove.
Nyirahabimana Appauline farms rice in the Rwasave plantation near Cyayove.
Nyirahabimana Appauline farms rice in the Rwasave plantation near Cyayove, Rwanda.
Nyirahabimana Appauline farms rice in the Rwasave plantation near Cyayove.
Children trim grass.
Rice fields.
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