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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>A group of Nubian women in Kenya\u2019s largest informal settlement is using hydroponics and circular gardening to revive traditional vegetables.<\/b><\/p>\n

Here in Kibera (from “kibra”, meaning “forest”) Nubian women are turning their hands to hydroponics and circular gardening to make use of small spaces that can sustain both culture and innovation.<\/p>\n

The Mazingira Women Initiative, founded in 2019, aims to empower Nubian women to preserve their cultural heritage while building climate-resilient food systems.<\/p>\n

The group has fifty members who are also involved in cleaning the environment and recycling food waste into organic fertilizer. Despite a long history of marginalization, Nubian women are reclaiming their identity and land connection through urban farming.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our community, almost 90% of the people prefer traditional foods like the indigenous vegetables,\u201d says Salma Rashid, a member of the Mazingira Women Initiative. As a result, there is a ready market for traditional vegetables such as nyagwa (amaranth), bamia (okra or lady\u2019s finger), and mulkia (jute mallow). These vegetables are used in Nubian cuisines such as mafrouk mulliavma bamia stew, which mainly consists of bamia and mulkia.<\/p>\n

In Nubian cuisine, gurusa, a soft fermented pancake made from wheat and maize flours, is traditionally eaten with vegetable stews like bamia and mulkia.<\/p>\n

At their urban farm in Kibera, the women are planting indigenous vegetables after recently harvesting bamia (okra\/ lady\u2019s finger).<\/p>\n

Young farmers like Asia Abdalla initially knew little about Nubian traditional foods, but after joining the initiative, she learned how to grow indigenous vegetables that are central to her community\u2019s culture. However, urban farming in informal settlements comes with significant challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn informal settlements, sometimes there is no guarantee that you will actually be growing your own vegetables for a very long time, you will grow for some time and then something comes up. Somebody decides that they want to utilize the land for a different purpose,\u201d explains Malasen Hamida, founder of the Mazingira Women Initiative.<\/p>\n

Stephen Otieno, an urban planner and food systems strategist, says urban farmers also need to adapt to the realities of climate change. \u201cI think climate change sort of shifts the goal post for urban farmers and I think that it\u2019s important that they also try to adapt as much as possible,\u201d he says. \u201cI know like these organisations and communities that are now starting to invest heavily in indigenous food, indigenous crops, that also helps a lot because they are then more climate resistant.”<\/p>\n

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