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...

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...

IndiaKindergarten children of the Drukyel Primary School, near Paro, playing in their classroom. - - WFP Aid to Bhutan. Bhutan, one of the Least Developed Countries, its situated in the north-eastern Himal...

IndiaPreparation of lunch for in-patients, in the kitchen of the Thimphu Central Hospital. The attendant is cooking soy-fortified bulgur wheat provided by WFP. - - WFP Aid to Bhutan. Bhutan, one of the Lea...

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...

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...

BangladeshA victim of the tornado. - - WFP Relief for Tornado Victims. Bangladesh was hit in April 1977 by a series of tornados and flash floods in the Sylhet, Mymensingh and Comilla districts. As a result, mos...

BangladeshPortrait of a healthy Bangladeshi woman. - - Rural Improvement. Bangladesh is a fertile country capable of producing two or three crops of rice annually. FAO has assisted the Bangladesh International...

TogoVolunteer workers cutting grass in order to prepare land for planting crops. - - Rural Development in Togo. The UN/FAO World Food Programme (WFP) is assisting the Repub1ic of Togo with food aid for vo...

Sri LankaPicking tea at the Pattiyagama cooperative farm in the central highlands near Kandy. The cooperative receives WFP assistance. - - World Food Programme Assistance to Sri Lanka. The island of Sri Lanka...

TogoExtension worker examining sapling. - - Rural Development in Togo. The UN/FAO World Food Programme (WFP) is assisting the Repub1ic of Togo with food aid for volunteer rural workers taking part in rura...

TogoAdobe houses with thatched roofs in a small village. Note precious firewood in foreground. - - Rural Development in Togo. The UN/FAO World Food Programme (WFP) is assisting the Repub1ic of Togo with f...

IndonesiaClose-up of a young mother who had decided, with her husband, to limit their family to two children. - - Rural Life and Population Pressure. In the late 1960s the population of Indonesia was approxima...

IndonesiaA vegetable and fruit market in Java. Not everyone can afford to buy. - - Rural Life and Population Pressure. In the late 1960s the population of Indonesia was approximately 110,000,000, with nearly t...

TogoVolunteer rural worker tending crop. - - Rural Development in Togo. The UN/FAO World Food Programme (WFP) is assisting the Repub1ic of Togo with food aid for volunteer rural workers taking part in rur...

Scene in West African market. - - Population Growth Versus Economic Development. The present rapid increase of populations is most apparent in developing countries, many of which have an average popul...

Threshing the harvest in West Africa. To meet the ever-growing demand for food, it is essential to introduce mechanisation and modern methods into agriculture. - - Population Growth Versus Economic De...

Burkina FasoDestitute nomads from Mali came to Christine Wells in Northern Upper Volta in search of pasture but found a wasteland. Here a woman pounds in a mortar, the last few grains in her family. - - Drought....

IndonesiaChild suffering from malnutrition at a child-care centre in Java - - Rural Life and Population Pressure. In the late 1960s the population of Indonesia was approximately 110,000,000, with nearly two-th...

JamaicaDonkey with panniers containing coffee cherries in the North Clarendon area. - - North Clarendon Rural Development. Judged by the criterion of economic growth, Jamaica is well on the road to prosperit...

JamaicaBreadfruit is cultivated for market in the North Clarendon area. The fruit is of Artocarpus altisis, a tree of the family Moraceae. It is not a fruit in the popular sense since it contains considerabl...

A group of school children in East Africa. Population growth means increasing demands for school places, teachers, books, etc. - - Population Growth Versus Economic Development. The present rapid incr...

More mouths to feed mean that more land must be brought under cultivation. A farmer and his wife in East Africa examine the new crops they have harvested. - - Population Growth Versus Economic Develop...

Scene in a West African market. The stall-keepers are almost all woman and are frequently obliged to take their smaller children to market with them. - - Population Growth Versus Economic Development....

EcuadorAmong other skills the young 4-F Club members in training at the Conocoto Centre are taught to raise rabbits, a relatively cheap source of high-quality protein for the malnourished people of the sierr...

EcuadorSmall holding in the Ecuadorian sierra. - - Promotion of Community Development and Feeding of Vulnerable Groups Among Andean Indians. Andean Indians live in the high mountain region which runs from no...

EcuadorSmall holding in the Ecuadorian sierra. - - Promotion of Community Development and Feeding of Vulnerable Groups Among Andean Indians. Andean Indians live in the high mountain region which runs from no...

EcuadorA woman washes clothes at a village watering place in the Ecuadorian sierra. - - Promotion of Community Development and Feeding of Vulnerable Groups Among Andean Indians. Andean Indians live in the hi...

EcuadorFarmers in an Andean village try out a Japanese plough, which was donated for demonstration purposes by French schoolchildren trough the Freedom from Hunger Campaign. - - The Andean mission.. The Miss...