Chief Eric Amara Manyeh poses for a photo in a rice field, near the Sierra Leone village of Fanima, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Thompson)

People stand by a small shop in the Sierra Leone village of Fanima, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Thompson)

People walk on a muddy road dividing two rice paddy fields, near the Sierra Leone village of Fanima, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Thompson)

Eric Amara Manyeh and other smallholders speak to a traveling farming extension officer, near the Sierra Leone village of Fanima, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Thompson)

Chief Eric Amara Manyeh wades through a rice paddy field, near the Sierra Leone village of Fanima, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Thompson)

Alhaji Aboubacar Kowa, Imam and farming leader, poses for a photo in a rice field near the Sierra Leone village of Fanima, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Thompson)

Anima Mangola eats rice and stewed cassava leaves, in the Sierra Leone capital Freetown, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Thompson)