Farming Among the Waste in Cameroon

Inter Press Service: - Cameroonian urban famer Juliana Numfor has six plots of land where she grows maize, cassava, sweet potatoes and leafy vegetables, including cabbages, wild okra and greens. The soil in which her crops grow is moist and visibly marshy, and a stream of water runs near it. But if you take a closer look you will notice that the water is dark and smells unpleasant. In fact it is wastewater, which comes from a student residential quarter in Yaoundé, popularly called "Cradat", that is less than......

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