MALAWIFarmer building a protective fence that will shield crops from the wind as well as from livestock. - - Treadle Pump Irrigation Project and Cassava Project.

NamibiaNamibian commercial farmers attend an FAO training course on date propagation, production and protection on a government farm. The man in blue short-sleeved shirt and hat is the farm manager and train...

ChinaFarmers hoeing soil around chili pepper plants that will be protected with plastic sheets. - - Dryland Pollution-Free Vegetable Cultivation Demonstration: TFD-99/CPR/004.

IndiaWoman scientist in a greenhouse of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute takign seeds from one particular variety of wheat. The climates of different regions of India have been replicated to enab...

IndiaFemale researcher prparing gels for analysis in the laboratory of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. - - Establishment of a Phytotron Facility at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute: I...

EcuadorFarmer producing organic fertilizer. The project has taught him how to make organic fertilizer with what is available on his farm. - - Community Forestry Development: GCP/ECU/070/NET.

Bolivia (Plurinational State of)Farmer spraying apple trees with organic pesticides on her plot of land. This agro-forestry project introduced the apple trees and taught the families how to grow them. - - Q'Omer Jallp'a: GCP/BOL/030...

GambiaStudents at the Jenoi Agricultural Rural Farmers' Training Centre (ARFTC) catching insects with nets during a lesson on integrated pest management. After training, each student passes on knowledge to...

GambiaA group of trainees being instructed in integrated pest management techniques by an Indonesian training coordinator at the Agricultural Rural Farmers' Training Center (ARFTC). Knowledge and experience...

EcuadorFarmers'association discussing the importance of tree conservation. - - General: General.

ChinaWorker moving plants in a greenhouse for hydroponics in a private, commercial company. - - Special Programme for Food Security. The Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) is being implemented in t...

BrazilResearch studies on a banana plague known as Black Sigatoka in a biotechnology laboratory ath the Institute of Scientific and Technolgical Research, Amapa State, Iepa. Here one can see small banana pl...

EgyptWorker tending seedlings in the greenhouse of the main government nursery in Luxor. The trees will be used for different purposes: promoting the establishment of forests in arid areas and for sand dun...

EgyptNursery worker tends tree seedlings planted outside the main government nursery in Luxor. The trees will be used for different purposes: promoting the establishment of forests in arid areas and for sa...

CambodiaIntegrated Pest Management (IPM): Two farmers, both of them landmine victims, working in a rice field. The combined effect of better water management, use of certified seeds and appropriate fertilizer...

CambodiaIntegrated Farmer Field School: Visit to a Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) site. Young people learn how to control crop pests through the use of biological methods rather than pesticides. -...

HondurasWorkers put cheese through a press in a cheese processing plant. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food security throug...

HondurasIn a cheese processing plant, a woman holds a finished cheese. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food security through...

HondurasIn a cheese processing plant, workers boil milk. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food security through better agricul...

ChinaFarmers collecting sacks of soybean seeds, fertilizer and pesticides donated by the TeleFood project. - - Production of Autumn Soybean: TFD-99/CPR/003. The project aims to take advantage of the natura...

EcuadorElderly farmer tending his tomato plants. - - Special Programme for Food Security Fruit and Vegetable Processing: ECU/98/30. The aim of this Special Programme for Food Security is to improve the level...

EcuadorSmall scale farmers tending their tomato plants. - - Special Programme for Food Security Fruit and Vegetable Processing: ECU/98/30. The aim of this Special Programme for Food Security is to improve th...

EgyptForestry officer examining mulberry trees (Morus alba L.) planted. These trees are used as windbreaks and also for raising silk worms. - - Preparation of a National Tree Planting and Development of Pe...

IraqLooking after tree seedlings in a nursery. - - FAO Activities under Security Council Resolution 986 in Iraq (Oil for Food Programme). In 1995, concerned about the suffering of the civilian population...

IraqAfforestation programme with eucalyptus trees. - - FAO Activities under Security Council Resolution 986 in Iraq (Oil for Food Programme). In 1995, concerned about the suffering of the civilian populat...

CambodiaAt a primary school in Sim Reap Province, young people, aided by adults, learn how to control pests using mainly biological methods rather than pesticides. - - General: General.

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 AfricaMaureen Chisale, who was voted woman farmer of the year for Gauteng Province, is feeding her poultry. - - General: General. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is giving techni...

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 AfricaMaureen Chisale, who was voted woman farmer of the year for Gauteng Province, is feeding her poultry. - - General: General. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is giving techni...

South AfricaSmall farmer weeding cabbage plot. - - General: General. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is giving technical assistance to the following three institutes that are part of t...

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 AfricaSmall farming couple weeding cabbage plot. - - General: General. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is giving technical assistance to the following three institutes that are p...

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 AfricaSmall farmer weeding cabbage plot. - - General: General. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is giving technical assistance to the following three institutes that are part of t...

South AfricaSmall farmer feeding dairy cattle. The cattle graze on communal land but, at present, there are too many cattle in the area and agronomists from the Ministry of Agriculture are encouraging farmers to...

South AfricaFarmer cleaning out his pigsty. - - General: General. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is giving technical assistance to the following three institutes that are part of the...

South AfricaSmall farmer feeding dairy cattle. The cattle graze on communal land but, at present, there are too many cattle in the area and agronomists from the Ministry of Agriculture are encouraging farmers to...

South AfricaMaureen Chisale, who was voted woman farmer of the year for Gauteng Province, tending to her spinach plants. She started farming three years ago, initially just growing maize and she now grows cabbage...

South AfricaSmall farmer feeding dairy cattle. The cattle graze on communal land but, at present, there are too many cattle in the area and agronomists from the Ministry of Agriculture are encouraging farmers to...

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 AfricaMaureen Chisale, who was voted woman farmer of the year for Gauteng Province, selling fertilizer in a shop and advising other farmers. - - General: General. The Food and Agriculture Organization of th...

South AfricaSmall farmer feeding dairy cattle. The cattle graze on communal land but, at present, there are too many cattle in the area and agronomists from the Ministry of Agriculture are encouraging farmers to...

Rearing Unit for biocontrol agents of Salvinia molesta. - - FAO/UNDP/ IVC/94/631.

GuineaCattle grazing in fields, prior to rice cultivation, as a form of weed control. - - General: General.

CubaExtensive onion field weeded with rational chemical control. - - General: General.

CubaNecrotic leaves of banana affected by Black Sigatoka (a fungal disease, affecting bananas and plantations). - - General: General.

Rearing Unit for biocontrol agents of water weeds. - - FAO/UNDP/ IVC/94/631.

Rearing Unit for biocontrol agents of water weeds. - - FAO/UNDP/ IVC/94/631.

CambodiaFarmers leaving the weekly meeting carrying insect zoos which they will observe and maintain at home until the next meeting. Reproduction rates and destruction of pests can then be observed. - - Speci...

CambodiaInspecting pests and predators and introducing them to "insect zoos" so that reproduction rates and destruction of pests can be observed. Farmers' Field School in Cambodia. - - Special Programme for F...

CambodiaCollecting insect specimens, pests and predators. - - Programme for Food Security: SPFP/CMB/6701. Eighty percent of the Cambodian population is dependent on subsistence farming with rice as the main a...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicIntegrated pest management training at a farmers' field school: collecting pests in the field. - - General: General. FAO's inter-country programme for integrated pest management (IPM) in vegetables in...

YemenIn southern Yemen, palm frond windbreaks help keep sand dunes from encroaching on nearby farms. - - General: General.

Lao People's Democratic RepublicIntegrated pest management training at a farmers'field school: drawing the pests that have been collected after field study. This is done to ensure that the farmers are able to identify and memorize n...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicIntegrated pest management training at a farmers' field school: collecting pest specimens in the field. The specimens are then taken to the school and drawn by farmer groups. As illiteracy is high in...

YemenDegraded and abandoned terraces have been rehabilitated in order to prevent soil erosion and to reintroduce agricultural crop cultivation. - - Conservation (Forestry Component): UTF/YEM/023. The proje...

SudanFarmers examining yields of wheat. Reduction of wheat spraying against aphids from 2 to 0.5 in recent years did not reduce yields. - - Development and Application of Integrated Pest Management (vegeta...

SudanAfter field practicals, Farmers are discussing new cultural practices demonstrated on the IPM field in the Farmer Field School in Sudan. - - Development and application of Integrated Pest Management (...

GuineaWild fruit from the Anona Senegalensis (Combretones). - - General: General.

IndonesiaAgroecosystems. In order to utilize only the necessary minimum of pesticides, teams of farmers are trained in basic IPM techniques. They learn to identify and count insects and to draw graphic represe...

IndonesiaAgroecosystems. In order to utilize only the necessary minimum of pesticides, teams of farmers are trained in basic IPM techniques. They learn to identify and count insects and to draw graphic represe...

HondurasLabourers strip off bark and square felled trees in preparation for their transport to a mill. - - Agro-forestry: HON/86/001. This project encompasses forest management, timber harvesting and educatio...

IndonesiaReproduction rate of predatory insects on rice plants is monitored in plastic tents at IPM research and training site. - - Training and Development of Integrated Pest Management in Rice-Based Cropping...

NigerThe leaves, fruit and roots of this Acacia albida tree are used for self-fertilization, while the bark is used for making medicinal drugs. It is an ideal tree for agroforestry products. - - Keita Inte...

MaliA farmer holds what is left of his millet crop that had been devoured by Senegalese grasshoppers. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the Sahel. The 1985 rains, breaking the worst drought in a decade...

PhilippinesThe Chrysopid Lorra is a biological predator of aphids. - - General: General.

MaliA tiny Senegalese grasshopper, one of millions that descended upon ripening millet and sorghum plants, in some cases devouring total crop areas. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the Sahel. The 1985...

NigeriaCassava (manioc) plants are under observation at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture at Ibadan, protected from mealy bugs and green spider mites by ventilated bags, as part of a biolo...

MaliA Cavalaipus cymleiferus, one of several grasshopper species that threatened thousands of food crops in the Sahel. Its young hoppers attack germinating cereal crops. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign i...

MaliWomen weave mats in the village of Durukini, north of Nara, one of many villages in the Sahel facing catastrophic food losses from the grasshopper infestation. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the...

MaliA USAID consultant, part of the ground team observation unit, receives the latest report on local wind conditions and grasshopper sightings from a ground observer. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in...

MaliAn Anacridum melanorhodon or "tree locust", one of several pests that threatened thousands of food crops in the Sahel. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the Sahel. The 1985 rains, breaking the worst...

NepalGirl watering pine seedlings at Kaul Thana tree nursery near Kathmandu. - - Wood for energy: Wood for energy. FAO is involved in helping the Government overcome critical problems of deforestation and...

ThailandBuffaloes and traditional ploughs are used in rice cultivation on improved fields as part of the project. - - Integrated Watershed Management and Forest Land Use Project. People desperately in need of...

ThailandBuffaloes and traditional ploughs are used in rice cultivation on improved fields as part of the project. - - Integrated Watershed Management and Forest Land Use Project. People desperately in need of...

NicaraguaTrained field workers from the Ministry of Agriculture check for further signs of coffee leaf rust in the affected area of Jinotepe. Suspected leaves are sent to a laboratory in Managua for analysis....

ChinaSpraying a rice field with powdered pesticide. - - General: General.

ChadNot all African birds are pests. Some such as these egrets are very beneficial to farmers since their diet includes grasshopper, locusts, caterpillars and other noxious insects. Two egret species are...

ChadThe yellow weavers or "gendarmes? as they are called in Francophone Africa. Their agility in manipulating green grass to make nests also unfortunately has helped them to learn to strip the leaves off...

ItalyClose-up of peach with sterile fruit fly on it. - - IAEA/FAO Mediterranean Fruit Fly Eradication Project.. Italy, July 1967. Capri is the site of an attempt to exterminate the Mediterranean fruit fly...

TunisiaPine seedlings in plastic bags ready for transplanting at a pine nursery. - - Reforestation Institute. The Reforestation Institute was established in Tunis by the Government and the UN Development Pro...

EthiopiaCamels of the locust ground control team, loaded with BHC dust and dusters crossing the River Barca at Agordat. The ground control unit has eight camels and 21 men; they go out for up to a fortnight a...

EthiopiaDLCO-EA field worker dust with BHC. - - General: General.

EthiopiaDesert locust (adults) infestation near Leida, about ten miles from Gogni field station. - - Desert locust control in East Africa.. More than forty countries, from West Africa to North India, are now...

EthiopiaMeasurements of the insects' wings and other body parts are taken regularly, because they are related to breeding density of hoppers and, hen combined with other observations in the field, may indicat...

EthiopiaMeasurements of the insects' wings and other body parts are taken regularly, because they are related to breeding density of hoppers and, hen combined with other observations in the field, may indicat...