First harvests in the community garden of Gourel Diamouyel, eastern Senegal.

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Malik and Abdourahmane, the two people in charge of cultivating the shared gardens in Dawady, have actively supported the women working in the gardens set up in five villages on the outskirts of Dawady, with the support of The Ivory Foundation and the Marie-Pierre Crosnier Mangeat Foundation. After putting up fences in the middle of the year, preparing the growing beds, and then the nurseries just before the rainy season, the group is now enjoying the first harvests: Black Beauty aubergines, heirloom tomatoes, and okra, grown from Agrosemens organic seeds, have yielded promising harvests…The women will collect part of the vegetable production to extract seeds for next season.


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