MadagascarWoman weaving basket. - - Land Reclamation of Savokas. In view of ensuring the optimum use of deteriorated tropical land with the local name of "Savokas", and to obtain a source of income for the inha...

MadagascarClose-up of rice. - - Land Reclamation of Savokas. In view of ensuring the optimum use of deteriorated tropical land with the local name of Savokas, and to obtain a source of income for the inhabitant...

MadagascarFishponds with outlets. - - Land Reclamation of Savokas. In view of ensuring the optimum use of deteriorated tropical land with the local name of "Savokas", and to obtain a source of income for the in...

Guinea-BissauBananas are one of the fruit crops grown at an FAO project site for experimental horticulture plantations. - - Horticulture Expansion/Green Belt. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Na...

MadagascarRice on irrigated terraces. - - Land Reclamation of Savokas. In view of ensuring the optimum use of deteriorated tropical land with the local name of "Savokas", and to obtain a source of income for th...

SenegalLeafless, dead trees cast little shade on the sere earth below. In time, they will crumble into dry dust, blowing over the baked soil of northern Senegal. Meanwhile, the average annual temperature con...

PortugalPapaya tree. - - General: General.

HaitiYoung man selling bananas. - - WFP Assistance to Rural Development and Vulnerable Groups. One of the world's poorest countries, Haiti, is a small, largely rocky and mountainous island in the Caribbean...

NigeriaMaize crib used as a sack store for dried grain by rendering the sides rainproof and fitting rat guards to the legs. - - African Rural Storage Centre (FAO/DANIDA) at International Institute of Tropica...

PhilippinesForestry worker uses an improved tool for stripping bark from a log. - - Multiple-Use Forestry and Agro-Forestry Development. Multiple-use forestry means the bringing together of watershed management,...

PhilippinesGovernment trainees and forest worker make a tree inventory in the Upper Pampanga River Basin area. - - Multi-Use Forestry and Agro-Forestry Development. Multiple-use forestry means the bringing toget...

PhilippinesFarmers rake the bed of a paddy field at Angar near Manila in preparation for p1anting. This is part of a 40,000 ha. area being brought under irrigation by a Government scheme. - - Agricultural Produc...

ParaguayThe IguasË?Falls, at a point on the Parana river where the borders of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet, are the largest in the western hemisphere. They are in a region of tropical rain forests rich...

JamaicaHugh Harries, botanist and plant breeder with the Coconut Industry Board, examines healthy coconuts in an experimental grove at Clifton Hill. - - Research on Lethal Yellowing Disease of Coconuts. Ever...

PeruLight Sussex hens raised on free range for natural selection at the Institute's Huancayo high altitude farm 3,400 meters in the Andes. They belong to grandparent stock. Only third generation of select...

PeruPeruvian Veterinary Institute for Tropical and High Altitude Research. FAO expert B. F. Stephens (UK) (standing holding two birds) with other experts at the Institute's Huancayo high altitude farm. M...

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...