Winners: Agriculture, 13-17 years old
1st Place in the 13-17 age category
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<p><strong>1st place in the 18-24 age category</strong></p>
<p><strong>Fertility Countdown</strong> - Mohamed Samad – Egypt - This relatively remote piece of Egyptian fertile land used for agriculture is threatened by Air pollution, urbanization and desertification as a result of climate change</p>
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<p><strong>2nd place in the 18-24 age category</strong></p>
<p><strong>One Hen Campaign Project - James Makini – Kenya - </strong></p>
<p>A photo I took from the field where we train farmers on agribusiness, environmental conservation,entrepreneurship and value chain analysis from a practical perspective, whereby each member is given a hen and a cage as a loan (One Hen Campaign Project) and after 6 months they surrender 2 chicks (once) to the programme for onward lending to other groups and sustainability of the programme.</p>
<p><strong>*Watch this video from 2nd place winner James Makini explaining the importance of his photo</strong></p>
<p>[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6cN_1fTlno]</p>
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<p>On Environmental conservation, IEP has come up with a very innovative way of training the youth and women to desist from using traditional cages that consume a lot of trees and instead use a modern cage covered with a wire mesh hence saving trees. From the hens droppings we train youth and women how to make composite manure which is organic and helps them conserve the soil that has been depleted by use of chemical fertilizers.</p>
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<p><strong>3rd place in the 18-24 age category</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Golden Island - Andrew A. Shenouda – Egypt </strong></p>
<p>Gezieret el Dahab or The Golden Island is an agricultural area located near downtown Cairo. Although it's isolated to some extend from Cairo Noise, it was threatened one day to swept and change to a business district.</p>
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<p><strong>1st place in the 25-35 age category</strong></p>
<p><strong>Forest For Gardening - Kisakye Mayanja- Uganda - </strong><br />
This picture, taken in Kiboga district shows a woodland turned into an agricultural field. Agricultural land is diminishing as a result of population explosion in many areas of the world, but, in this region of Uganda, encroachment is caused by soils that have been over cultivated. Farmers there try to seek better soils from forested land, they burn fell the trees before cultivating. The ferttile soils in the forests can easily leach and will soon lose fertility, leading to further encroachment and change in the micro climate of such a place.</p>
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<p><strong>2nd place in the 25-35 age category</strong></p>
<p><strong>Madagascar, Inland, father and son posing in front of rice fields. Stephanie Rabemiafara – Madagascar -</strong></p>
<p>Traditional farming methods vary from one ethnic group or location to another, according to population density, climate, water supply, and The most intensive form of cultivation is practiced among theBetsileo and Merina groups of the central highlands, where population densities are the highest. At the other extreme are the extensive slash-and-burn methods of brush clearing and shifting cultivationin the south and the east. The price of rice, the staple food in Madagascar, has doubled in the past two years, forcing residents in the capital, Antananarivo, to halve their consumption.</p>
<p><strong>3rd place in the 25-35 age category</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Cattle Farmer from Paua – Brice Blondel – France - </strong></p>
<p>Paoua, in the North Ouest of the Central African Republic is subjected to chronic insecurity. People regularly have to flee the town to hide in the bush for weeks, sometimes months, in order to avoid being attacked by rebels or bandits.Not many people are able to save cattle, which is often stolen by armed men. This man's house was partly destroyed, as were many others in his neighbourhood, but he still owned that one cow. It is him who came to me and ask that I take his picture.</p>
<p><strong>*Watch this video from 3rd place winner Brice Blondel explaining the importance of his photo</strong></p>
<p>[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwScvXgfnpI]</p>
