+Exif II* M R 2 : ( 1 " B 2 d ; x 3 i The Gardener / Nairobi, Kenya / Sukuma leaves grown inside the Kibera slum are an important source of vitamins. Planting in sacs recently become popular thanks to trainings by foreign NGOs. It allows the most efficient use of soil, water and space and therefore got widely adapted in slum where there is definitely lack of all the resources mentioned above. / 08.2013 Farming in Nairobi plays a very important role in households of many families. For most of them it provides the fresh vegetables – a source of daily need for vitamins. For some it becomes source of income and a way of life. Specially the vulnerable community of numerous Nairobi slums like Kibera and Mathare get more and more involved in gardening activities seeing it as an opportunity. They arrange the little gardens on every available peace of land, that is never their property and as all other structures in the slum has a very temporary construction. Urban farming has a long established tradition in history of human beings. In the times of prosperity it is regarded more as leisure activity. It develops and intensifies in times of food crisis. Today the healthy food shortages become a global problem. It touches low-income communities of both developing and developed world. The city dwellers uses all kind of reused materials in order to build the farming sights. They arrange the little peaces of land available to them according to their creativity and imagination creating the modern urban gardens. The story on urban Farming in Nairobi is a part of The Gardener project. The Gardener is a winning commission of the Syngenta Photography Award 2013. The photographs of urban gardens were taken by Jan Brykczynski thought thought 2013 and 2014 in New York, Nairobi, Warsaw and Yerevan.The Gardener is also a book to be launched on May 23rd 2015. Publisher is Dewi Lewis Publishing. - ' - ' Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows) 2016:11:03 10:42:01 Jan Brykczyński Jan Brykczyński / The Syngenta Photography Award 0221 X B J ( R s" H H Adobe_CM Adobe d " ? 3 !1AQa"q2B#$Rb34rC%Scs5&DTdE£t6UeuF'Vfv7GWgw 5 !1AQaq"2B#R3$brCScs4%&5DTdEU6teuFVfv'7GWgw ? C{6h v|e