As a child, I loved when my mother made tuna, best served with macaroni and cheese and mixed vegetables.

Papa Khouma, 27, is a cab driver. Every Sunday the young Senegalese cabbie goes grocery shopping for his only big homemade dinner of the week, Mafe.

Is there life after root vegetables? Farmers endure bad weather, cancelled markets, and low turn-outs, and wait eagerly for spring.