Each week the Nourishing the Planet team picks out some of our favorite photo memories from the projects we’ve visited in sub-Saharan Africa.
Photo credit: Bernard Pollack
This week’s highlight is from our recent visit to the fish markets outside of Banjul, The Gambia, where the fish are so fresh, they are literally off the boat – or pirogue, in this case.
Check out the rest of our Gambian adventures on our Flickr photostream to see how the Gambian fishermen are making a sustainable living.
Do you have photos of innovations on the ground in Africa? Share them with us for our second photo contest and the opportunity to be included on the Nourishing the Planet blog or in State of the World 2011. Send your submissions to dnierenberg@worldwatch.org.
Danielle Nierenberg, an expert on livestock and sustainability, currently serves as Project Director of State of World 2011 for the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based environmental think tank. Her knowledge of factory farming and its global spread and sustainable agriculture has been cited widely in the New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, the Washington Post, and
other publications.
Danielle worked for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic. She is currently traveling across Africa looking at innovations that are working to alleviate hunger and poverty and blogging everyday at Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. She has a regular column with the Mail & Guardian, the Kansas City Star, and the Huffington Post and her writing was been featured in newspapers across Africa including the Cape Town Argus, the Zambia Daily Mail, Coast Week (Kenya), and other African publications. She holds an M.S. in agriculture, food, and environment from Tufts University and a B.A. in environmental policy from Monmouth College.
