Farmers are adapting more sustainable agricultural methods to combat the affects of climate change outside of Luxor in Upper Egypt, leveling fields using new technologies, to sharing water resources more efficiently and bringing in the wider community to educate on the affects of climate change in their lives.
Photographed on assignment for Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-20/life-death-and-laughter-as-egypt-farmers-battle-climate-change
The agricultural town of Al Boghdady outside of Luxor, Egypt June 20, 2019 Sima Diab for Bloomberg
Saadi Mohamad Ahmad, a farmer part of the collective looks out on to a field in Al Boghdady outside of Luxor, Egypt June 20, 2019. The collective of farmers have adapated water saving and agricultural techniques to combat climate change. Sima Diab for Bloomberg News
A farmer plants seeds in field in the agricultural town of Al Boghdady near Luxor, Upper Egypt. June 20, 2019
A farmer plants seeds in field in the agricultural town of Al Boghdady near Luxor, Upper Egypt. June 20, 2019
A farmer stands in a field in Al Boghdady, outside of Luxor Egypt June 20, 2019 Sima Diab for Bloomberg
Farmers stand along a canal in a field in the agricultural town of Al Boghdady near Luxor, Egypt June 20, 2019 Sima Diab for Bloomberg
Farmers near a field in the agricultural town of Al Boghdady near Luxor, Egypt June 20, 2019. Farmers have formed a collective in order to adopt measures in farming methods to combat climate change. Sima Diab for Bloomberg
A shepherd tends to his flock of goats grazing in a field in the town of Al Boghdady outside of Luxor, Egypt June 20, 2019
Children of farmers watch a play about climate change adaptation in the rural town of Al Boghdady near Luxor, Egypt June 20, 2019 Sima Diab for Bloomberg
A play about climate change adapatation in the town of Al Boghdady near Luxor, Egypt June 20, 2019 Sima Diab for Bloomberg