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Clouds in the night sky on my evening walk last night with Finn. The last, last light from the sinking sun illuminating their beauty
#clouds #sunset #night #nightphotography #switzerland #sky #jura #walking #magic #light #entrenous

Lida and Zekeu, a love story. Smallholder farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, Lida and Zekeu have a small plot with rubber, cocoa and palm oil. Zekeu has battled an illness all his life so Lida farms the land. She told Zekeu “I need you to live so I’ll work, and you do what you can”. She’s amazing and there is clearly much love between them. Lida said she’d never had a white person in her plot before and demanded I return. I said it was my first visit to a cocoa farm and that I would come back in the future. I left with the gift of a bag of fresh mangoes and the blessing of having met special people.

#cotedivoire #farmer #cocoa #rural @tftearth

Faces of #africa This chap drives a truck collecting #palmoil fruit. He’s got his mates with him and luckily for me, he had his skylight open just enough for the dusk sun to say hello

#cotedivoire #faces #travel #travelphotography #travelling

This is Papa Issa, a smallholder #palmoil grower in #cotedivoire

He has 11 children, 7.5ha of land with 1,004 palm trees, 3 of which are dead. He gets very low yield from his 24 year old palms. My @tftearth colleagues are helping him better manage his business and diversify his income by giving fish farming a go. He’s happy.
#smallbusiness #smallholders #farmer #agriculture @theforesttrust

Madame Bernadette! 66 years old and still walking. She completed the 8km trek through the plantation yesterday no problem. #inspiring

#walkandtalk #africa #cotedivoire #movember #move #entrenous

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