Plants grow at Mariama Sonko's agro-ecological training center in the Casamance village of Niaguis, Senegal, Wednesday, March 7, 2024. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women's rights movement in West Africa, We Are the Solution. Sonko, its president, is training female farmers from cultures where women are often excluded from ownership of the land they work so closely. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)
Mariama Sonko and other members of the "Nous Sommes la Solution" (We Are the Solution) movement take a census of the different varieties of rice grown in the Casamance village of Niaguis, Senegal, Wednesday, March 7, 2024. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women's rights movement in West Africa, We Are the Solution. Sonko, its president, is training female farmers from cultures where women are often excluded from ownership of the land they work so closely. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)
Mariama Sonko and other members of the "Nous Sommes la Solution" (We Are the Solution) movement take a census of the different varieties of rice in the Casamance village of Niaguis, Senegal, Wednesday, March 7, 2024. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women's rights movement in West Africa, We Are the Solution. Sonko, its president, is training female farmers from cultures where women are often excluded from ownership of the land they work so closely.(AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)
Mariama Sonko and other members of the "Nous Sommes la Solution" movement take part in a lemon balm pecking workshop in the Casamance village of Niaguis, Senegal, Wednesday, March 7, 2024. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women's rights movement in West Africa, We Are the Solution. Sonko, its president, is training female farmers from cultures where women are often excluded from ownership of the land they work so closely. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)
Mariama Sonko and other members of the "Nous Sommes la Solution" (We Are the Solution) movement take a census of the different varieties of rice in the Casamance village of Niaguis, Senegal, Wednesday, March 7, 2024. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women's rights movement in West Africa, We Are the Solution. Sonko, its president, is training female farmers from cultures where women are often excluded from ownership of the land they work so closely.(AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)
This is an aerial view of Mariama Sonko's agro-ecological training center in the Casamance village of Niaguis, Senegal, Wednesday, March 7, 2024. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women's rights movement in West Africa, We Are the Solution. Sonko, its president, is training female farmers from cultures where women are often excluded from ownership of the land they work so closely. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)
Mariama Sonko Mariama Sonko poses in the seed hut of her agro-ecological training center in the Casamance village of Niaguis, Senegal, Wednesday, March 7, 2024. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women's rights movement in West Africa, We Are the Solution. Sonko, its president, is training female farmers from cultures where women are often excluded from ownership of the land they work so closely. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)
Mariama Sonko and other members of the "Nous Sommes la Solution" (We Are the Solution) movement take a census of the different varieties of rice grown in the Casamance village of Niaguis, Senegal, Wednesday, March 7, 2024. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women's rights movement in West Africa, We Are the Solution. Sonko, its president, is training female farmers from cultures where women are often excluded from ownership of the land they work so closely. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)