1963 - The United Nations and four of its agencies have now reached the 10th year of the programme to help the 7 -million Indians who live in the high plateaux of the Andean mountains. Under the manag...

BURUNDIKitega, Burundi. 1968. AGRICULTURAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE. The farmers of Burundi, like many in the world, are subject to the vagaries of their soil and climate. Before they can improve conditions,...

AzerbaijanComparing a satellite map with the situation on the ground. - - Pig Keeping and Group Sheep Fattening Project: TFD/98/ARM/005 and 006.

CambodiaImproved pig-raising, using antibiotic treatment, has helped to reduce pig mortality rates from 35 to 10%. - - Special Programme for Food Security: SPFS/CMB/6701. The series of wars in and around Camb...

South AfricaFeeding indigenous Naked Neck hens at the Agricultural Research Council, Animal Nutrition and Animal Products Institute (ARC-ANPI). The Institute is responsible for research, development and technolog...

South AfricaHarvesting cabbages grown on communal land. Here, the community learns how to grow different crops using various irrigation methods and types of fertilizer; lessons learned are then applied to their o...

South AfricaThe Agricultural Research Council, Animal Improvement Institute (ARC-AII): an employee is administering medication to stop infection occurring to a ram whose horn has snapped off. These indigenous ram...

South AfricaThe Agricultural Research Council, Animal Improvement Institute (ARC-AII): an employee is administering medication to stop infection occurring to a ram whose horn has snapped off. These indigenous ram...

South AfricaAn indigenous pig at the Agricultural Research Council, Animal Improvement Institute (ARC-AII). FAO is working with the Institute to establish a southern African network of research centres to increas...

South AfricaIndigenous goats at the Agricultural Research Council, Animal Improvement Institute (ARC-AII). FAO is working with the Institute to establish a southern African network of research centres to increase...

South AfricaIndigenous goats at the Agricultural Research Council, Animal Improvement Institute (ARC-AII). FAO is working with the Institute to establish a southern African network of research centres to increase...

South AfricaFeeding indigenous Naked Neck hens at the Agricultural Research Council, Animal Nutrition and Animal Products Institute (ARC-ANPI). The Institute is responsible for research, development and technolog...

JordanAnimal traction: farmer ploughing a field with a horse-drawn plough. - - Assistance to Participatory Extension and Training for Olive Production: TCP/JOR/6715(T). The Ministry of Agriculture of the Go...

JordanTraditional method of ploughing between olive trees using a donkey to pull the plough. The project gives advice to farmers on ploughing. - - Assistance to Participatory Extension and Training for Oliv...

CHINAWater buffalo farm in China. This is the only research institute in China for water buffalo. The institute is now independent but was once part of the Guanxi Animal Husbandry Institute. There are thre...

MyanmarWoman farmer feeding her hens. - - Pilot Watershed Management Project for the Kinda Dam Watershed: UNDP/FAO/MYA/81/003. This project was initiated and started operation in 1987. Its main goal is to id...

EcuadorA close-up of a farm woman milking a cow. - - Ca?r Model Project for Integrated Dairy Development: GCP/ECU/059/NET. This project aims at increasing the income, over a period of 10 years, of some 4 000...

JordanTraditional method of ploughing. Land is being prepared for the planting of chick peas. - - General: General. Medic (medicago) is a pasture legume which thrives in semi-arid regions with wet winters a...

ChadChecking of carcasses in slaughter-house. - - Drying of Meat: TCP/CHD/4504. The objectives of this Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) project, which started in October 1985, are to make practical u...

BangladeshThreshing of rice paddy by animal treading. A layer of harvested stalks is spread on the ground and a group of oxen is driven slowly over to trample or thresh the grain from the panicles. Loss compone...

EcuadorWomen farmers admire the bigger potatoes grown by an FAO extensionist in a demonstration plot beside their poor crop planted by traditional, input methods. - - General: General. The UN Food and Agricu...

Burkina FasoFarmer using animal traction to plough while his young daughter leads the two oxen. - - Animal Traction Implements as Assistance to Rural Development. At the beginning of this joint FAO/Demark project...

ArgentinaHigh qua1ity sheep on a large government breeding and research station near Ba1carce. They are receiving an injection which wi1l protect them against stomach parasites. - - Intensification of Animal P...

ChinaA net is used in the harvest of silver carp at an aquaculture farm in the Hua-Si Production Brigade. - - General: General. The total number of Communes throughout China has been estimated at 60,000 a...

SloveniaWoman herding her cows. - - Pilot land reclamation on the Lower Neretva.. The Government of Yugoslavia is carrying out a series of investigations on a pilot polder of 3,700 hectares in order to determ...