Samuel Ikua: Global Youth Champion 2022
This year’s award winner and his mission to get people farming in the city
Samuel Ikua is championing urban farming in his city, Nairobi in Kenya.
Samuel undertook an urban farming course in 2015, run by a local NGO called the Mazingira Institute. Seven years later Samuel is the project coordinator at the institute, training other members of his community in urban farming skills.
In this programme Ruth Alexander hears about the challenges Samuel faces, a lack of space and land, and local attitudes to farming in a big city.
Samuel’s commitment to food security in Nairobi saw him chosen by a panel of international judges as the winner of The Food Chain Global Youth Champion Award 2022.
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Presented by Ruth Alexander.
Produced by Beatrice Pickup.
Additional reporting by Michael Kaloki in Nairobi.
(Image: Sameul Ikua. Credit: Timothy Ivusah/ BBC)
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