Bahati Muriga, a 40-year-old widow and mother of three, grows sugar cane, sweet potatoes, cassava and maize on her farm in Tanzania, not far from where Lake Victoria laps at the shoreline of Ukerewe, the largest island in Africa’s largest lake.
Muriga has lived on Ukerewe her entire life, and she’s cultivated crops there since she first began helping her mother as a child. Now, things are changing.
“When I was a child, we experienced a lot of rainfall, but now we have a scarcity of rainfall,” Muriga said through a translator. “The season has changed now.”