Nigeria’s shifting rainfall wreaks havoc with a beloved edible green, the waterleaf plant

Mongabay5 November 2026, 21:40 UTCNigeria

This is Part 1 in a two-part series on Nigerian waterleaf. Part 2 will be published soon. “These are the ones that survived the rain,” Enono Koka said, gesturing at a patch of short, spindly waterleaf plants across her large farm in downtown Calabar, in southern Nigeria’s Cross River. It was an unseasonably sunny morning […]

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