In Kiang East, as in the rest of rural The Gambia, declining per capita food production has been a long-standing problem. This problem is compounded by a projected near-doubling of the country’s population. The situation is particularly worrisome in rural settlements where farmers have lost 25% of their purchasing power over the years due to […]
Kiang West is one of the six districts of the Lower River Region of the Gambia. Along with Kiang Central and Kiang East, it makes up the Kiang area. In the 2013 census, it had a population of 14,953 and the current population estimate for the district is 21,800. Kiang West is home to the Kiang West National Park which was established in 1987 and is adjacent to […]
Kiang Central is one of the six districts of the Lower River Region of the Gambia. Along with Kiang East and Kiang West, it makes up the Kiang area. In Kiang Central, as in most of The Gambia’s rural villages, most men farm rice, groundnuts, and millet. Most women garden for subsistence food needs, as well as work in the rice fields. Farming is the main […]
Bondali District, as in The Gambia’s “Fonis,” the West Coast Region bordering Senegal’s Casamance region, has experienced intermittent turmoil overflowing from West Africa’s longest-running civil conflict, four decades of sporadic violence rooted in a separatist rebellion by neighboring Senegal’s “Mouvement des forces démocratiques de la Casamance” (MFDC). The longstanding currents of informal trade across Casamance’s northern border […]
Jarra West District is one of the six districts of the Lower River Region of The Gambia. In the 2013 census, it had a population of 27,205. Its current population is estimated to be 31,900. Its main town is Soma which is a commercial town linking the Trans-Gambia corridor towards southern Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. The main occupations are farming, including crop […]
Kiang Central is one of the six districts of the Lower River Region of the Gambia. Along with Kiang East and Kiang West, it makes up the Kiang area. In Kiang central, as in most of The Gambia’s rural villages, most men farm rice, groundnuts, and millet. Most women garden for subsistence food needs, as well as working in the rice fields. Farming is the main […]
Kiang West is one of the six districts of the Lower River Region of the Gambia. Along with Kiang Central and Kiang East, it makes up the Kiang area. In the 2013 census, it had a population of 14,953 and the current population estimate for the district is 21,800. Kiang West is home to the Kiang West National Park which was established in 1987 and is adjacent […]
West Coast Region, The Gambia Foni Jarrol is one of the nine districts of The West Coast Region, which is located to the south of the Gambia River in the southwest of the country. Foni Jarrol is in the far east of the region, between Foni Bondali and the border with Senegal. The district is widely dominated by the Jola tribe and it is well […]
Foni Kansala District is one of the nine districts of the Gambia‘s West Coast Region, which is located to the south of the Gambia River in the southwest of the country. Foni Kansala is in the southeast of the Region, between Foni Bintang-Karenai and Foni Bondali. This area of the country is prone to illegal deforestation especially in rosewood. The area is also prone to […]
Foni Kansala- is one of the nine districts of the Gambia‘s West Coast Region, which is located to the south of the Gambia River in the southwest of the country. Foni Kansala is in the southeast of the division, between Foni Bintang-Karenai and Foni Bondali. This area of the country is prone to illegal deforestation especially in rosewood. The area is also prone to wildfires […]