The average Senegalese consumes about 85 kg of rice each year. Rising rice demand and production in Senegal is an important domestic agribusiness and employment opportunity during a time of increased migration.
Ndèye lives in a small town in northern Senegal, close to the border with Mauritania. She is the president of a union of women rice producers who are doing something different in their community: Training the next generation of women in agribusiness.