You can grow food in the unlikeliest of places, it seems. Here in Djenne, Mali, a green-fingered local takes some time to look after his garden. Photographer Timothy Allen took the picture while in Mali to photograph the annual restoration of the Great Mosque of Djenne. "By chance I stumbled across the scene during an evening stroll," he says. "The garden stood out from the very yellowy mudbrick colour of Djenne." During the dry season the Bani river, seen in the background, shrinks back and exposes the mass of litter and debris thrown away by Djenne's 33,000 inhabitants. While the town's population normally uses mud from the river banks as a building material, this farmer took advantage of the damp riverbed and nearby water supply to grow some crops. "The area he was working in would be underwater during the rainy season," says Allen.
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