fishing and livestock farming. The UN says 10.7 million people in the Lake Chad basin need humanitarian relief to survive. "We used to pass fields of maize on our way to the lake and there were ...

The power station was to provide electricity to pump water from Lake Chad to irrigate 165,000 acres (668 sq km) of farm land. But the scheme was doomed from the start - even before construction ...

agriculture and insecurity among vulnerable populations in Borno State and across Lake Chad Basin host communities. The Lake Chad Inclusive Economic and Social Recovery project, implemented by ...

Women’s cooperative farm in Dogba. Image by Leocadia Bongben for Mongabay. Currently, Adamou employs the Zai technique and composts manure on half a hectare of his farm. A member of the Nangam ...