After the phylloxera crisis killed the grapevines in the late 1800s, the whole 160-meter-high hill overlooking the Seine filled with orchards and vegetable plots to feed Parisians.
Those who have large enough plots to feed themselves overwhelmingly choose to do this as it allows them to sell fewer cattle to buy food.
For example, many focus group participants said they grew more than enough vegetables in their domestic plots to feed themselves comfortably.
Plot is easy to feed, but how does one nourish ambience, mood, atmospherics?
In Yola South, one of Adamawa Local Government Area (LGA), Joda Saliou is a resident and a farmer who cultivates a small plot of land to feed her family.
30 This age range represents women whose primary duties may be to take care of the home, work on the family plot growing food to feed the family, and care for their children as well as other family members.
Create a food plot for ducks to feed on when they are migrating.
Farmers can rely on their small plots of land to feed their family and sell their crops at a fair price.
A number of initiatives have produced modest results in improving production and efficiency in farming, which 60 percent of Haitians, mostly tenant farmers on small plots, rely on to feed their families.
Amongst those with smaller plots, the decision to feed themselves or raise cash from their land was evenly distributed - they cannot grow enough to feed themselves anyway and so are more motivated to get cash income from crops.
