Somalia28 September 2022, Badhan, Somalia - A donkey licks a salt block in a field near Badhan.

Somalia28 September 2022, Badhan, Somalia - Donkeys stand in a field near Badhan.

Somalia28 September 2022, Badhan, Somalia - Donkeys stand in a field near Badhan.

Kenya04 November 2021, Shebta-cad village, Garissa, Kenya - Donkeys seeking to drink water sourced from a borehole at a watering point. The combined effects of crop and pasture losses caused by desert locu...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkey manure is collected on a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agriculture, their...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkey manure is collected on a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agriculture, their...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy31 December 2021, Lipari, Italy - Donkeys are seen while eating hay inside a farm in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily. Although in Italy donkeys are no longer used massively in agricult...

Italy15 December 2021, Viterbo, Italy - Donkeys at liberty in the woods of the farm 'il Marrugio' owned by Luigi de Simone, which produces a wide variety of products for sale and catering establishments. A...

Italy15 December 2021, Viterbo, Italy - Donkeys at liberty in the woods of the farm 'il Marrugio' owned by Luigi de Simone, which produces a wide variety of products for sale and catering establishments. A...

Italy15 December 2021, Viterbo, Italy - Donkeys at liberty in the woods of the farm 'il Marrugio' owned by Luigi de Simone, which produces a wide variety of products for sale and catering establishments. A...

ETHIOPIA03 July 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Men stand among donkeys carrying sacks of cereal and grains in a market in Addis Ababa on July 3, 2019.

YEMEN14 February 2018, Sana'a - Alhasbah, Yemen - Cactus plants in the targeted area supported by FAO.

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. Due to long distances between the water source and the homesteads, donkeys have come in handy as they are now used to ferry water c...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. A local villager Bongani Sihlongonyane draws water for domestic use at the community's only water source. Due to long distances bet...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. A local villager Bongani Sihlongonyane draws water for domestic use at the community's only water source. Due to long distances bet...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. Due to long distances between the water source and the homesteads, donkeys have come in handy as they are now used to ferry water c...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. Due to long distances between the water source and the homesteads, donkeys have come in handy as they are now used to ferry water c...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. Due to long distances between the water source and the homesteads, donkeys have come in handy as they are now used to ferry water c...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. Due to long distances between the water source and the homesteads, donkeys have come in handy as they are now used to ferry water c...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. A local villager Bongani Sihlongonyane draws water for domestic use at the community's only water source. Due to long distances bet...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. Due to long distances between the water source and the homesteads, donkeys have come in handy as they are now used to ferry water c...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. A local villager Bongani Sihlongonyane draws water for domestic use at the community's only water source. Due to long distances bet...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. Due to long distances between the water source and the homesteads, donkeys have come in handy as they are now used to ferry water c...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. Due to long distances between the water source and the homesteads, donkeys have come in handy as they are now used to ferry water c...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. A local villager Bongani Sihlongonyane draws water for domestic use at the community's only water source. Due to long distances bet...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. Due to long distances between the water source and the homesteads, donkeys have come in handy as they are now used to ferry water c...

Eswatini04 November 2016, Lavumisa Swaziland - Mathendeni area in Msuzaneni. Due to long distances between the water source and the homesteads, donkeys have come in handy as they are now used to ferry water c...

AFRICAUpper Volta, 1973 - Donkeys loaded with sacks of wheat bran which has been distributed to Peul nomads at Tin Akof in northern Upper Volta near the Niger border. Lead caption: Five years of sub...

LESOTHO04 July 2015. Lesotho, Leribe - Two children ride donkeys through terraced

ZIMBABWE1 April 2014, Beitbridge - Donkeys approaching a water point at Mr Ngwenya's feedlot in Beitbridge. Zimbabwe emergency livestock drought mitigation programme funded by UK Department for International...

ZIMBABWE1 April 2014, Beitbridge - Donkeys approaching a water point at Mr Ngwenya's feedlot in Beitbridge. Zimbabwe emergency livestock drought mitigation programme funded by UK Department for International...

ZIMBABWE1 April 2014, Beitbridge - Donkeys approaching a water point at Mr Ngwenya's feedlot in Beitbridge. Zimbabwe emergency livestock drought mitigation programme funded by UK Department for International...

ZIMBABWE1 April 2014, Beitbridge - Donkeys approaching a water point at Mr Ngwenya's feedlot in Beitbridge. Zimbabwe emergency livestock drought mitigation programme funded by UK Department for International...

WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP06 May 2013, Hazzaleen, West Bank and Gaza Strip - A Bedouin harvesting corn and barley in a field set aside for grazing of animals and land rehabilitation. FAO Project: OSRO/GAZ/105/CAN - Emergency...

WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP13 May 2013, Tammun, West Bank and Gaza Strip - A herd of sheep grazing.

WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP06 May 2013, Hazzaleen, West Bank and Gaza Strip - A Bedouin harvesting corn and barley in a field set aside for grazing of animals and land rehabilitation. FAO Project: OSRO/GAZ/105/CAN - Emergency...

WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP06 May 2013, Hazzaleen, West Bank and Gaza Strip - A Bedouin harvesting corn and barley in a field set aside for grazing of animals and land rehabilitation. FAO Project: OSRO/GAZ/105/CAN - Emergency...

WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP06 May 2013, Hazzaleen, West Bank and Gaza Strip - A Bedouin harvesting corn and barley in a field set aside for grazing of animals and land rehabilitation. FAO Project: OSRO/GAZ/105/CAN - Emergency...

WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP08 May 2013, Zatara, West Bank and Gaza Strip - A Palestinian herdsman watering his donkey at a rehabilitated cistern. FAO Project: OSRO/GAZ/202/CAN - Protection of Farmer Livelihoods (West Bank). Th...

WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP09 May 2013, Baka Al Sharkia, West Bank and Gaza Strip - A farmer traveling by donkey through the surrounding greenhouses that populate the area.

NIGER23 February 2013, Goulbi, Niger - Farmers transporting firewood by donkey on the main roadway alongside a small forest. The Great Green Wall Sahara and Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI): FAO and its partners...

CHAD03 November 2012, Arada, Chad - Women walking to a traditional wedding nearby. FAO Project: OSRO/RAF/214 - Desert Locust Threat in the Sahel - 2012. Objectives: The general objective of this project...

CHAD03 November 2012, Fada, Chad - A woman walking with donkeys laden with firewood in North Eastern Chad. ANLA, with support from FAO, is conducting control operations against populations of desert locus...

KYRGYZSTAN14 August 2012, Jalal-Abad Oblast, Kyrgyzstan - Farmers harvesting corn. FAO Project: UNJP/KYR/005/UNJ - Small-scale community based agriculture to enhance and diversify agricultural production and r...

KYRGYZSTAN14 August 2012, Jalal-Abad Oblast, Kyrgyzstan - Farmers harvesting corn. FAO Project: UNJP/KYR/005/UNJ - Small-scale community based agriculture to enhance and diversify agricultural production and r...

KYRGYZSTAN14 August 2012, Jalal-Abad Oblast, Kyrgyzstan - Farmers harvesting corn. FAO Project: UNJP/KYR/005/UNJ - Small-scale community based agriculture to enhance and diversify agricultural production and r...

KYRGYZSTAN14 August 2012, Jalal-Abad Oblast, Kyrgyzstan - Farmers harvesting corn. FAO Project: UNJP/KYR/005/UNJ - Small-scale community based agriculture to enhance and diversify agricultural production and r...

KYRGYZSTAN14 August 2012, Jalal-Abad Oblast, Kyrgyzstan - Farmers going to work in the fields in the early morning. FAO Project: UNJP/KYR/005/UNJ - Small-scale community based agriculture to enhance and divers...

KYRGYZSTAN14 August 2012, Jalal-Abad Oblast, Kyrgyzstan - Farmers going to work in the fields in the early morning. FAO Project: UNJP/KYR/005/UNJ - Small-scale community based agriculture to enhance and divers...

KENYA07 November 2003, Bondo, Kenya - Villagers with no access to clean water are forced to collect their drinking water from Lake Victoria. FAO Project: TCP/KEN/2901 - Horn of Africa Initiative: Reducing...

KENYA07 November 2003, Bondo, Kenya - Daily life at a local fishing village near Lake Victoria.

KENYA04 November 2003, Narok, Kenya - A Maasai pastoralist learning farming and agriculture through the Farmer Field Schools transporting sacks of harvested corn by donkey. FAO Project: KEN/99/200 - Envir...

KENYA04 November 2003, Narok, Kenya - Maasai pastoralists learning farming and agriculture through the Farmer Field Schools transporting sacks of harvested corn by donkey. FAO Project: KEN/99/200 - Enviro...

KENYA04 November 2003, Narok, Kenya - Maasai pastoralists, who participate in the Farmer Field School, taking their cattle to a local livestock market. FAO Project: KEN/99/200 - Environment and Natural Re...

KENYA05 November 2003, Narok, Kenya - Maasai pastoralists and participants in the Farmer Field School, transporting harvested maize by donkey. FAO Project: GCP/INT/725/IFA - East African Sub-Regional Pilo...

KENYA05 November 2003, Narok, Kenya - Maasai pastoralists, who participate in the Farmer Field School, harvesting corn and loading it onto a donkey's back for transport.

KENYA05 November 2003, Narok, Kenya - Maasai pastoralists, who participate in the Farmer Field School, harvesting corn and loading it onto a donkey's back for transport.

GAMBIA25 April 2012, Kerewan, Gambia - A donkey pulling a cart at a local market. FAO Project: GTFS/GAM/025/ITA - National Programme Food Security in The Gambia. Project Objective: Agricultural productivit...

GAMBIA25 April 2012, Kerewan, Gambia - A donkey pulling a cart loaded with onions for sale at a local market. FAO Project: GTFS/GAM/025/ITA - National Programme Food Security in The Gambia. Project Objecti...

NIGERIA12 February 2006, Buruku, Nigeria - A farmer taking sugar cane from his farm to the market by donkey. FAO Project UTF/NIR/047/NIR: The National Special Food Security Programme, Nigeria. The objective...

NIGERIA12 February 2006, Buruku, Nigeria - A farmer taking sugar cane from his farm to the market by donkey. FAO Project UTF/NIR/047/NIR: The National Special Food Security Programme, Nigeria. The objective...

INDIA25 January 2012, Nagapattinum, Tamil Nadu, India - Villagers and livestock reposing on the beach where a month ago a tsunami struck and devastated homes, lives and livelihoods.

SOMALIA02 February 2012,Dollow, Somalia - Small-scale farmers ploughing fields using donkey traction.

Ethiopia19 December 2011, Tigray, Ethiopia - A donkey. FAO Project: GCP /ETH/073/ITA - Strengthening of fruit and cactus pear production in Tigray and North Wollo. To promote food security and poverty reducti...

Egypt06 December 2005, Fayoume, Egypt - Farmers transporting a harvest by donkey. FAO Project: TFD-03/EGY/002 - Rooftop Garden Vegetables Free of Pesticides. To help decrease unemployment rates in the two...

EGYPT04 December 2005, Cairo, Egypt - A street market scene in Cairo.

EGYPT04 December 2005, Cairo, Egypt - Street market scene in Cairo.

Egypt06 December 2005, Fayoume, Egypt - Daily life. FAO Project: TFD-03/EGY/002 - Rooftop Garden Vegetables Free of Pesticides. To help decrease unemployment rates in the two Governorates involved in the p...

Egypt06 December 2005, Fayoume, Egypt - A farmer transporting harvested corn by donkey. FAO Project: TFD-03/EGY/002 - Rooftop Garden Vegetables Free of Pesticides. To help decrease unemployment rates in th...

EGYPT07 December 2005, Hamidia, Egypt - Local villagers. FAO Project TFD-03/EGY/003 - Encourage New Rabbit Raisers to Incorporate Crop Remnants into Rabbits' Diet. The project promotes rabbit raising; a pr...

EGYPT07 December 2005, Fayoume, Egypt - Young boys transporting fodder from the fields by donkey. FAO Project TFD-03/EGY/003 - Encourage New Rabbit Raisers to Incorporate Crop Remnants into Rabbits' Diet....

EGYPT07 December 2005, Hamidia, Egypt - Local farmers traveling by donkey. FAO Project TFD-03/EGY/003 - Encourage New Rabbit Raisers to Incorporate Crop Remnants into Rabbits' Diet. The project promotes ra...

EGYPT07 December 2005, Hamidia, Egypt - A local farmer transporting harvested corn by donkey. FAO Project TFD-03/EGY/003 - Encourage New Rabbit Raisers to Incorporate Crop Remnants into Rabbits' Diet. The...

EGYPT07 December 2005, Fayoume, Egypt - A young villager traveling by donkey. FAO Project TFD-03/EGY/003 - Encourage New Rabbit Raisers to Incorporate Crop Remnants into Rabbits' Diet. The project promotes...

SAUDI ARABIASaudi Arabia - Crop production and protection at Hakma Research Station. Boy on a donkey.

KENYA10 May 2005, Wajir - A pastoralist transporting water back to the village by donkey. Nearly 90 percent of pastoralists' livestock has been lost in the ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa. During the...

KENYA11 May 2005, Wajir - Pastoralists transporting water back to their village by donkey. Nearly 90 percent of pastoralists' livestock has been lost in the ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa. During th...

PAKISTAN10 June 2011, Bejlo Village - A flood-effected farmer drives a donkey cart laden with rice seed from an FAO Distribution Center towards his village Sad Ullah. FAO Project: OSRO/PAK/018/SWE - Early re...

MAURITANIA24 October 2002, Atar - Nomad women of the Maur ethnic group drawing water from a well during a sandstorm.

NIGER07 November 2007, Beïnam - A farmer transporting harvested millet by donkey cart.

NIGER07 November 2007, Beïnam - Pastoral farmers traveling by donkey.

MOROCCO20 July 2004, Ain-Beni Mathar - A farmer's tent home. The damage to crops caused by the desert locust affect this portion of society hardest.

MAURITANIA28 July 2004, Kaedi - Daily life around a local village water well.

PAKISTAN08 September 2010, Kashmore - Portrait of locals from a nearby province arriving after swimming for an hour to Kashmore for food rations from World Food Programme (WFP). These villagers make the swim...

PAKISTAN19 August 2010, Sukkur - A farmer transporting a donkey by cart.

PAKISTAN08 September 2010, Sukkur - A man is pictured with a herd of water buffalo, displaced by the floods in Pakistan, seeking cover from the sun underneath an overpass. Nearly 20 million people have been a...

PAKISTAN29 August 2010, Talli - Villagers traveling by donkey cart.