Una madre lava i vestiti a casa sua mentre porta il suo bambino neonato sulla schiena nella regione di Segou, in Mali, in Africa occidentale. 2022 siccità del Mali e crisi della fame.
8192 x 5464 px | 69,4 x 46,3 cm | 27,3 x 18,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
16 dicembre 2022
Ubicazione:
Ségou Region, Mali, West Africa
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Kassim Troaré’s family is easily the most stable and prosperous family we encountered during our week in Ségou Region, Mali. Yet, he and his family still face food shortages and resort to rationing four months out of the year. As millet farmers, they typically harvest as many as 50 fifty kilogram bags of millet grain from their fields, yet they need over 200 fifty kilo bags per year to feed their family of nine, leaving them with a tremendous shortfall. In addition to farming in their own fields, Kassim and his wife, Gogo Traore (35), work as brick builders or as itinerant laborers farming in the fields of others to make up the difference. This allows them to eat three meals a day from December to July, and one or two meals a day from August through November. “Since I started farming, every year we have run short of food, he says. “By the month of August your stock of food is already depleted.” The subsidized kit of rice, millet and fertilizer that Kassim purchased through Lutheran World Relief’s local partner, Union of Cooperative Societies of Breeders of Tamani (USCET), helped support the family this year. “Thanks be to God, the fertilizer that they gave us this year helped us tremendously. This year we got 70 bags, ” Kassim says. This mild success is offset, however, by drastically increased food prices he must pay to feed his family. “Last year’s prices in the market and this year’s are not the same, ” he says. “Last year at this time millet was sold at 100CFA per kilo. But today in some places one kilo of millet is 200 CFA or even 250CFA.” “I think the only solution is that God would find people who can help us get fertilizer and farming tools and materials. If not, I don’t see another way for us to come out of this situation, ” says Kassim. “May God bring us people who will help our village get out of this situation.”
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