Kris Pannecoucke

Photographer - Filmmaker
  
Location: Kinshasa
Biography: Kris Pannecoucke, born in Kinshasa, Congo started my career as photographer and traveled intensively through the DRC the last couple of years on assignments for magazines, NGOs and corporate clients. My Photo work has been published in National... MORE
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Nyama
kris pannecoucke
Dec 18, 2020
Location: Kinshasa
New commissioned book 'NYAMA' is about (bush)meat, hunting, livestock and food insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. How demographic growth puts pressure on the rainforest. Hunters find less and less wildlife, urban dwellers in Kinshasa hold more and more small livestock which can help protect biodiversity. We visited the large cattle ranches and looked for Mbororo cattle drivers who are causing unrest in the north. We talk about how the import of cheap subsidized meat (waste) from Europe is choking the local farmers in Congo, etc ...
Picha Publishing
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