‘Taste this, it’s salty’: how rising seas are ruining the Gambia’s rice farmers

Harvesting rice by the Gambia River, where the soil gets saltier by the year. It’s a crisis in a small country where three-quarters of people live off the land. Photograph: Sylvain Cherkaoui/Guardian

Harvesting rice by the Gambia River, where the soil gets saltier by the year. It’s a crisis in a small country where three-quarters of people live off the land. Photograph: Sylvain Cherkaoui/Guardian

source https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/nov/27/taste-this-its-salty-how-rising-seas-are-ruining-the-gambias-rice-farmers