HondurasSilo manufacturing. A man taking beans out of the silo. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food security through better...

HondurasMen and boys transport the maize harvest. Maize harvesting is one of the main activities of the men of the village. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NE...

HondurasMen and boys transport the maize harvest. Maize harvesting is one of the main activities of the men of the village. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NE...

HondurasSilo manufacturing. A man making small silos for storing maize and beans. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food securi...

HondurasWorker storing maize in a warehouse. This maize will be used to feed livestock. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food...

HondurasA woman putting processed vegetables and fruits into glass jars for sale. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food securi...

HondurasA farmer and a boy harvesting maize. Maize harvesting is one of the main activities of the men of the village. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. Th...

HondurasSilo manufacturing. A man making small silos for storing maize and beans. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food securi...

HondurasWorkers storing maize in a warehouse. This maize will be used to feed livestock. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food...

HondurasA young woman washing dishes. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food security through better agricultural practices wit...

TogoChildren in Kovie village. - - Improved Fish-Smoking Techniques: TFD-97/TOG/002. Fish-smoking is the main income-generating activity of the women in the villages around Kpogan in the Prefecture du Gol...

TogoA girl collecting sand for sale. The sand will be used to lay sardines out to dry. A pan of sand costs 50 CFA francs. - - Improved Fish-Smoking Techniques: TFD-97/TOG/002. Fish-smoking is the main inc...

TogoWoman in the fish-smoking area of the village, drying fish in the sun. It usually takes six hours. - - Improved Fish-Smoking Techniques: TFD-97/TOG/002. Fish-smoking is the main income-generating acti...

ThailandCharcoal is made in a commercial kiln. The kiln uses mangrove trees grown specifically for making charcoal, helping to conserve forest resources. - - General: General.

TogoWoman with a small straw broom, turning sardines that are drying the sun. - - Improved Fish-Smoking Techniques: TFD-97/TOG/002. Fish-smoking is the main income-generating activity of the women in the...

TogoWomen preparing smoked fish (karangue) for sale directly from the fish-smoking area in the village. - - Improved Fish-Smoking Techniques: TFD-97/TOG/002. Fish-smoking is the main income-generating act...

TogoYoung women preparing bags to transport smoked or sun-dried fish to market. - - Improved Fish-Smoking Techniques: TFD-97/TOG/002. Fish-smoking is the main income-generating activity of the women in th...

El SalvadorCooking tortillas on a modern stove that conserves fuel. - - Sustainable Agriculture on Hillsides: GCP/ELS/004/NET. The Sustainable Agriculture on Hillsides project has been set up to assist the Natio...

MyanmarWoman cooking on a fuel efficient stove approved by the project. - - Pilot Watershed Management Project for the Kinda Dam Watershed: UNDP/FAO/MYA/81/003. This project was initiated and started operati...

NigerDeforestation in southern Niger. The piles of wood will be used for fuel. - -

GhanaWoman tending fire under "chorkor". This new type of oven is fuel efficient and has increased capacity with a number of trays for smoking fish. - - Integrated Development of Artisanal Fisheries: IDAF/...

GhanaWoman stirring a pot on an improved energy saving coooking stove introduced by the Department of Women in Agricultural Development.Energy is saved by a controlled burning of fuel. - - Integrated Devel...

GhanaWoman smoking fish on a Chorkor oven. This improved method of fish smoking is fuel efficient and has increased capacity with a number of additional trays. The end result is a better quality of fish pr...

GhanaWoman cooking on a traditional stove made from three large stones, which has high fuel consumption and uncontrolled fire. - - Integrated Development of Artisanal Fisheries (IDAF): IDAF/GHA/93/008. The...

GhanaTraditional method of cooking involving high fuel consumption and uncontrolled fire. - - Integrated Development of Artisanal Fisheries (IDAF): IDAF/GHA/93/008. The project aims at improving the workin...

GhanaWoman preparing fish for smoking on a modern chorkor oven. This type of oven is fuel efficient with an increased capacity through additional trays and controlled fire. The end result is a better quali...

GhanaWomen preparing fish for smoking on a modern "chorkor" oven. This type of oven is fuel efficient with an increased capacity through additional trays and controlled fire. The end result is a better qua...

GhanaWoman tending fire under a chorkor. This new type of oven is fuel efficient and has increased capacity with a number of trays for smoking fish. - - Integrated Development of Artisanal Fisheries (IDAF)...

GhanaWoman smoking fish on a chorkor oven. This improved method of fish smoking is fuel efficient and has increased capacity with a number of additional trays. The end result is a better quality of fish pr...

GhanaWoman stirring a pot on an improved energy saving stove introduced by the Department of Women in Agricultural Development. Energy is saved by a controlled burning of fuel. - - Integrated Development o...

AlbaniaMan returning home with a load of wood on his horse in the alpine commune of Stebleve in the district of Librazhd. The wood was gathered from the forest in the background. The wood is one of the princ...

IndiaA girl has collected dried cow dung for use as a fuel. - -

Viet NamWood stored for fuel and other commercial uses such as making crates for shipping exported good. - - FAO Small-holder Reforestation Project: VIET/92/022. This is a nationwide programme with the partic...

MadagascarWoman preparing daily meal of fish soup on a traditional Dago. This is an improved two-part version of a charcoal stove. - - General: General.

RwandaUN fuel truck. - - Rwanda gets seed, tools after 1994 civil war. An US$18.4 million programme, coordinated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) provided Rwandan farmers with tons of beans...

MexicoWorker using net to fish prawn from waters of mangrove swamp. Mangrove trees are used for fuel and charcoal in may parts of the world. This important forestry resource also offers an excellent breedin...

NepalRural women of west-central Nepal carrying loads of fuelwood from nearby forests to their mountain homes. - - FAO in Nepal. The land-locked Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, with approximately 18 million in...

TuvaluA woman farmer with freshly picked pumpkin. Unlike other vegetables, the pumpkin does not have to be picked and eaten immediately, so it is a good food for times when nothing else is available. Tips o...

TuvaluA woman stripping taro which she will then cut up and cook. She will also serve healthy taro leaves and sweet red peppers with the meal to add flavour. Improved methods for cooking fresh vegetables ha...

SudanA lesson in an open-air school. The teachers have been trained in the interrelations between population growth and the depletion of natural resources such as fuel wood so that they can in turn teach t...

PeruLogs recently felled for timber. Hillside has been recently replanted following a forest fire. - - Community Forestry and Reforestation. The Andean region consumes 3 million tonnes of wood per year, m...

PeruWorkers in one of the 11 FAO assisted community forest nurseries near Huarez tending Molle, a drought-resistant native tree that grows well in poor soil and arid climates. Molle is one of several nati...

PeruA worker plants "Q'enua" (Polylepis) in a community nursery. FAO is helping reforest Peru with this native source of fuel wood and rustic building material. - - Community Forestry and Reforestation. T...

SudanTrees in central Sudan have been cut or completely left denuded by refugees from a nearby camp in search of wood and fodder. - - Fuel Wood Development for Energy. People in the Sudan, especially in th...

SudanVillage women outside Khartoum collect wood for cooking and making charcoal from nearby forests. This is a daily chore, often done early in the morning towards dusk. - - Fuel Wood Development for Ener...

SudanAn extension forester uses a diagram to discuss the many uses of trees and the importance of planting them. Female foresters are a great asset in a country where women often cannot have direct contact...

SudanA young boy drives his herd of cattle in search of fodder in the west of Sudan. The species of trees in the background are prosopis and are particularly good for providing fodder. - - Fuel Wood Develo...

MyanmarEggplant farmer in lower Burma. This is an area with no access to irrigation water so it has to be transported. - - General: General. Burma is faced with an increasing shortage of fuel wood, due to pr...

MyanmarWorkers weeding Chir pine seedlings at the Maymyo Forest Department Nursery, which will be used in reforestation plantations. - - General: General. Burma is faced with an increasing shortage of fuel w...

NepalProtected government forest on hillside. - - Wood for energy. FAO is involved in helping the Government overcome critical problems of deforestation and fuel wood shortage through a nation-wide project...

NepalA government Forestry Officer uses a flip chart to explain aspects of the FAO-assisted Community Forestry Development Project to villagers near Kathmandu. - - Wood for Energy Programme. FAO is involve...

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...

NepalA potted seedling in a forest nursery in as part of a wood for energy project. FAO is involved in helping the Government overcome critical problems of deforestation and fuel wood shortage through a na...

LesothoA gang of 6 men and 19 women, villagers of Tlali, working to convert a bridle path into a 15 km road for 4-wheel drive vehicles. - - Soil Erosion in Lesotho. A small land-locked country, Lesotho has o...

EthiopiaClose-up of an Ethiopian peasant who is working on a soil conservation project. - - Assistance to soil and water conservation. Reafforestation and erosion control work is being carried out in Ethiopia...

NepalWild mountain wheat in the Himalayas. - - General: General. One of the world's most dramatic erosion and deforestation situations is in Nepal where forests, up to heights of 2 000 m have totally disap...

NepalAn old Gurung peasant farmer tends a newly planted pine tree as part of a village community forestry project. - - General: General. One of the world's most dramatic erosion and deforestation situation...

NepalFarmers planting young pine trees as part of a community forestry development project in the Himalayan foothills. - - General: General. One of the world's most dramatic erosion and deforestation situa...

NepalBuffaloes used to till rice fields in the plains need 40 kg of fodder per day. The search for animal feed (traditionally young tree leaves) is denuding the hillsides of the natural tree cover. - - Gen...

ChinaCrowd scene - rural Sichuan. - - Small-Scale Biogas Technology. China, more than any other developing or developed country in the world, is producing an alternative energy for fuel called biogas. In o...

ChinaIn a peasant kitchen in rural Sichuan,a woman cooking with biogas which she produces in her yard with the waste from her pigsty and family latrine. - - Small-Scale Biogas Technology. China, more than...

ChinaPeasant family in rural Sichuan eating their main meal, which was cooked by biogas made in their own yard. - - Small-Scale Biogas Technology. China, more than any other developing or developed country...

BangladeshIn addition to its valuable properties as organic fertilizer, cow dung is sun-dried and used as fuel on the Indian subcontinent. - - Problems of The Small Farmer. Land reform has had the effect of mak...

IndonesiaChildren from a village in an area where conservation work is being carried out on eroded land. Their nutrition has improved as a result of the regular distributions of WFP rations. - - Reforestation...

IndonesiaArrival of a shipment of bulgur wheat at a temporary WFP warehouse in solo, Java. It will be taken from here to the various distribution points of the project. - - Reforestation and Watershed Protect...

IndonesiaUnder the guidance of FAO experts, formerly eroded land is terraced and converted to paddy fields yielding two crops a year. Farmers receive WFP family rations. Women and girls also work in the paddy...

IndiaBringing home cattle at sunset to a small settlement in the desert. - - Environmental Deterioration and the Threat to Food and Agriculture. Erosion through wind and rain, over-grazing and the removal...

BrazilA worker controls the bagging process of sugar during operations at a distillery in Limeira, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. In Brazil, ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane which is a more efficient sour...