AlbaniaFarmer hauling alfalfa hay back to his farm in the coastal plain. - - Strengthening Agricultural Policy Analysis & Management Capabili: GCP/ALB/001/ITA. Strenghtening Agricutural Policy Analysis & Man...

SenegalImmature swarm of desert locusts east of Lac De Guiers in the north of Senegal. - - In 1993, the Emergency Centre for Locust Operations (ECLO) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), mobili...

ChinaSheep grazing on grass. In the background the shallow underground water layer is still widely visible in the sandy soils of the eastern confines of the Horquin Desert (Inner Mongolia) in May-June, jus...

MauritaniaA survey team determining the extend of the desert locust invasion and planning ground targetting for aerial control. - - In 1993, the Emergency Centre for Locust Operations (ECLO) of the UN Food and...

Viet NamFAO woman trainer and a participating farmer checking foliage loss to rice plants in the programme test field. The data will be analysed to determine just how much leaf loss a plant can endure before...

AlbaniaBullock-drawn cart hauling forage back to farmhouse, with driver leading them. - - Strengthening Agricultural Policy Analysis and Management Capabilility in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture: GCP/...

SenegalImmature swarm of desert locusts roosting east of Lac de Guiers in north of Senegal. - - In 1993, the Emergency Centre for Locust Operations (ECLO) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),...

MauritaniaSwarm of immature desert locusts 35 km. south Nouackchott - - In 1993, the Emergency Centre for Locust Operations (ECLO) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), mobilized international assi...

Viet NamCloseup of farmer showing rice pest found in IPM field. - - Integrated Pest Management. The nation-wide programme of assistance to rice growers is organized around small field groups of farmers who me...

AlgeriaHab fodder for camels in the desert - -

MauritaniaGreen schouwia in a gravel plain at Gleib Bathet Saiba south of Fderik. Green Schouwia is eaten by camels and locusts alike and it is often a race to see who gets there first. A few adult desert locus...

Viet NamCloseup of farmer with rice pests found in IPM field. - - Integrated Pest Management. The nation-wide programme of assistance to rice growers is organized around small field groups of farmers who meet...

MauritaniaYoung boys fight a desert locust swarm in the suburbs of Nouakchott. - - In 1993, the Emergency Centre for Locust Operations (ECLO) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), mobilized interna...

AlgeriaCaravan of camels in the Grand Erg Occidental desert in Southern Algeria. - -

MauritaniaArrival of an immature desert locust swarm in the suburbs of Nouakchott. - - In 1993, the Emergency Centre for Locust Operations (ECLO) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), mobilized int...

Viet NamSmall holder scything weeds in an area of newly planted acacia trees. - - FAO Small-Holder Reforestation Project: VIE/92/022. This is a nationwide programme with the participation of 212.000 farmers....

Viet NamFarmer and woman trainer checking plants for pests and their natural predators which have been released into the rice fields as part of the programmeÂ?experimentation. - - Integrated Pest Management....

MauritaniaImmature groups of adult desert locusts. At this time of the morning when it is still cool, they are grouped on bushes and some of them start to walk on the sand. They will fly later when their bodies...

JapanBlack Wagyu grazing (probably taken for scenic motives, as most cattle remain in their stall). - -

RwandaLong-horn cattle. - - 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 be...

RwandaLong-horn cattle on a river bank. - - 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...

United Republic of TanzaniaWoman weeding field of rice. - - Smallholder Oriented Irrigated Rice Production (Phase 111): URT/90/017. The main purpose of this UNDP/FAO/Government of Zanzibar project is to complete the development...

RwandaLong-horn cattle. - - 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 be...

RwandaCloseup of long-horn cattle grazing. - - 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 farm...

UgandaYoung man minding Ankoke cattle - -

UgandaYoung forestry officer with students on a field trip - - Institutional Support for the Protection of East African Biodive: UNO/RAF/006/GEF. The aim of this component of project UNO/RAF/006/GEF is to s...

UgandaTick control: cattle in a pen being sprayed against ticks. - -

UgandaStudents in an outdoor class at Makerere University learning about the forestry project. - - Institutional Support for the Protection of East African Biodive: UN0/RAF/006/GEF. The aim of this componen...

UgandaStudents in an outdoor class at Makerere University learning about the forestry project. - - Institutional Support for the Protection of East African Biodive: UNO/RAF/006/GEF. The aim of this componen...

UgandaHides and skin processing: after flaying and washing, the skin is hung out for drying. - -

RwandaVillagers in northeast Rwanda line up for coupons which they will redeem for sacks of maize and bean seed. When civil strife struck this Central African country in 1994, agriculture all but collapsed....

RwandaTwo Rwandan women in the northeast part of the country plant maize seed supplied by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This Central African country's recent upheavals have left the...

UgandaWorker watering seedlings in forest nursery - - Institutional Support for the Protection of East African Biodive: UNO/RAF/006/GEF. The aim of this component of project UNO/RAF/006/GEF is to strenghten...

UgandaMan transporting traditional drums by bicycle. They are made from a wood locally known as Modotani, a wood which is very resonant and therefore ideal for the manufacture of musical instruments. - - Ge...

PeruWomen engaged in milking operations. - -

PeruGuinea pigs. - - People are raising Guinea pigs in Andean villages. The Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) is a rodent which was domesticated by the ancient Incas of Peru - long before the arrival of the co...

PeruGuinea pigs. - - In Andean villages people are raising Guinea pigs. The Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) is a rodent which was domesticated by the ancient Incas of Peru - long before the arrival of the co...

PeruWomen raising alpaca. - -

PeruWoman tending sheep while spinning wool. - -

MadagascarDemonstration of urea-treated straw for dry-season cattle feed. - - Integrated Rural Development: UNDP/MAG/86/005. This project of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Food and Agriculture O...

PeruWoman tending sheep while spinning wool. - -

MadagascarWomen tending poultry in standard chicken coop. - - Integrated Rural Development: UNDP/MAG/86/005. This project of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO...

PeruWomen shearing sheep. - -

PeruWoman milking cow. - -

UgandaIn the Lukaya area near Entebbe, a trader uses his bicycle to carry to market a huge Nile Perch he bought from a fisherman on Lake Victoria. Lack of transport is a hindrance to Uganda's economic growt...

CambodiaOfficers of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have convinced villagers to use UREA, a mixture of nitrogen (A.N.P.) and cellulose mixed with water and sprinkled on rice...

UgandaA weary trader takes a break on the Entebbe-Kampala road. He is carrying plantain bananas known as matoke, to market on his bicycle. Transport is a huge problem in Uganda, although international funds...

MauritiusFather and son collecting grass for their cattle from a restricted area. Some pastures of the island have been fenced to avoid overgrazing. Nevertheless farmers should enter from time to time and cut...

UgandaIn Kampala an elderly widow pets the Friesen cow she bought with the help of international and local NGOs. The milk is sold to help her care for the 17 orphaned children of her only son, who died six...

UgandaWoman sorting drying corn with her grandchildren. Illiterate, she asked a visitor to explain what her son, a schoolteacher, had written on the building behind her. - - General: General.

CambodiaExtension officers of the UN/Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have taught this young farmer to prepare rice to which will be added other ingredients before feeding the nutritious mixture to cat...

CambodiaOfficers of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have convinced villagers to use UREA, a mixture of nitrogen (A.N.P.) and celulose mixed with water and sprinkled on rice straw. In this way c...

UgandaHerdsmen drive their zebu cattle across the Kampala-Entebbe highway in the late afternoon. - - General: General.

PeruWomen's association for community protection and security, and defence of women's right (ronderos). - -

CambodiaThe UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) delivers to rural village multinutritional blocks of vitamins and salts that farmer feed to their cattle. - - Better Use of Locally Available Resources i...

UgandaA herd of impala running from tourists in Ruwenzori National Park, western Uganda. - -

UgandaYoung man milking the cow he bought with a partner using money paid to them to help ease their way back into civilian life after having spent most of their adult lives in the army. As part of structur...

El SalvadorCattle grazing on arid land in project area, watched over by young herdsman. This picture was taken during the dry season when the zone receives no rain at all and has very little water available. - -...

RwandaMother bearing a heavy headload carries her child on hip. - - General: General. A US$18.4 million programme, coordinated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) provided Rwandan farmers with...

RwandaChildren carrying firewood on their heads along road in Rwandan countryside. - - General: General. A US$18.4 million programme, coordinated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) provided R...

RwandaCloseup of hands holding bean seed donated by international community. - - Osro Emergency Relief: FAO/OSRO/RWA/403/ITA. Rwanda gets seed, tools after 1994 civil war. An US$18.4 million programme, coor...

RwandaMan and woman carrying head loads along a country road. - - General: General. A US$18.4 million programme, coordinated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) provided Rwandan farmers with t...

RwandaWoman carrying container of water on her head. - - General: General. A US$18.4 million programme, coordinated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) provided Rwandan farmers with tons of be...

RwandaPortrait of a young mother carrying baby on her back and a basket on her head. - - General: General. A US$18.4 million programme, coordinated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) provided...

RwandaChildren tending sheep. - - 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...

United Republic of TanzaniaCloseup of young woman harvesting rice with her baby on her back. - - Women in Irrigated Agriculture and Related Activities: GCP/URT/103/NET. The Women in Irrigated Agriculture and Related Activities...

RwandaFAO veterinarians check long-horn cattle in Rwanda for disease as part of post-war assessment of the need for an animal health programme. During the 1994 civil war cattle were removed to neighbouring...

United Republic of TanzaniaSpreading rice straw on irrigated rice field after harvest in order to conserve moisture for the production of tomatoes and cowpeas. - - Smallholder Oriented Irrigated Rice Production (Phase 111): URT...

RwandaFAO veterinarians check long-horn cattle in Rwanda for disease as part of post-war assessment of the need for an animal health programme. During the 1994 civil war cattle were removed to neighbouring...

RwandaSheep grazing in Rwanda countryside. - - 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 farm...

El SalvadorCattle grazing on arid land in the project area. This is a zone of the country which has only two seasons, wet and dry. This picture was taken during the dry season lasting from December to May when t...

Bolivia (Plurinational State of)Rearing llamas on natural pasture at an altitude of 4000 metres. - -

United States of AmericaA field genebank of temperate fruits including pear (Pyrus spp.) and apple (Malus spp.) in the north eastern USA. - - Environmental conservation, the conservation of the Earth's biodiversity and the...

IndiaA field genebank of yam (Dioscorea sp.) in Southern India. - - The Role of Biotechnology in the Conservation and Sustainable Utilization. Environmental conservation, the conservation of the Earth's bi...

Cow infested by dermatophilosis caused by the bites of the tropical bont tick Amblyomma Variegatum. It is a parasite that infests domestic animals, specially livestock. Currently it infests 14 Caribbe...

ColombiaWoman scientist at CIAT examining plantlets of cassava (Manihot esculenta) in the in-vitro genebank. 100 genotypes from the large CIAT field collection have been taken through the entire procedure of...

Costa RicaStudents at CATIE learning how to collect germplasm in-vitro. Material spread out on table consists of cocoa (Theobroma cacao), coffee (Coffea sp.) and banana (Musa sp.). Collected material must be su...

ZambiaSeeds of cowpea (Vigna spp.). Current studies undertaken by IBPGR include the analysis of isozyme and DNA variation in Vigna spp. - - The Role of Biotechnology in the Conservation and Sustainable Util...

Cows infested by Cowdria ruminantium and acute dermatophilosis caused by the bites of the tropical bont tick, Amblyomma Variegatum. Cowdria ruminantium causes infectiuos heartwater disease which resul...

IndiaBanana (Musa sp.) plant in field genebank. - - The Role of Biotechnology in the Conservation and Sustainable Utilization. Environmental conservation, the conservation of the Earth's biodiversity and t...

United KingdomCocoa (Theobroma cacao) pods - fruit containing seeds which are recalcitrant in behaviour. They cannot be stored for more than a few weeks. Therefore cocoa is conserved in field genebanks which are th...

HondurasA cooperative tomato plantation in the Nueva Palmerola area. Workers spraying crop which is profiting from improved irrigation. - - Irrigation Programme for small farmers: UNDP/FAO/HON/84/004. The obj...

PakistanVeterinarian preparing to treat a buffalo. - - Milk Production in Gujranwala, Punjab.: CTA/PAK/88/072. The project is designed to develop buffalo breeding in the arid area of Gujranwala in Punjab Stat...

PakistanCalf being checked by veterinarian. - - Milk production in Gujranwala, Punjab: CTA/PAK/88/072. The project is designed to develop buffalo breeding in the arid area of Gujranwala in Punjab State. To th...

PakistanBreeding of dromedaries. - -

PakistanTechnician testing milk which small farmers have delivered to collection centres by bicycle and donkey cart. - - Milk Production in Gujranwala, Punjab: CTA/PAK/88/072. This project is designed to deve...

PakistanSheep breeding at Barani. - -

PakistanSheep breeding in Barani. - -

PakistanPacking milk by machine at Nestle processing plant. - - Milk Production in Gujranwala, Punjab: CTA/PAK/88/072. The project is designed to develop buffalo breeding in the arid area of Gujranwala in Pun...

PakistanSheep breeding at Barani. - -

Sri LankaFarmer spraying insecticide in a rice field. - -

NepalWomen at work in a seed cleaning centre. - - Fresh Vegetable & Vegetable Seed Production: GCP/NEP/043/SWI.

NepalA farmer displaying new species of marrow introduced by the FAO project for the first time in the Kathmandu valley. - - Fresh Vegetable & Vegetable Seed Production: GCP/NEP/043/SWI.

NepalNew species of carrots introduced by the FAO project for the first time in the Kathmandu valley. - - Fresh Vegetable & Vegetable Seed Production: GCP/NEP/043/SWI.

Sri LankaCows on Tangalla beach in the early morning. - -

NepalNew species of carrots introduced by the FAO project for the first time in the Kathmandu valley. - - Fresh Vegetable & Vegetable Seed Production: GCP/NEP/043/SWI.

IndonesiaWomen tea pickers of the rich hill country near Bandung in Indonesia?s western Java. - - General: General.

EcuadorAgricultural micro-project: Enhancement of market garden crops. A little boy helping his father to harvest cucumbers. - - Grassroots Participation and Management in Rural Development.

Burkina FasoCirina Butyrospermi Vuillet feeding on Shea leaves. The caterpillar is considered a culinary delicacy. - - General: Genreal.

IndonesiaWorker in one of the many test laboratories of the FAO-Assisted Integrated Pest Management Project. - - General: General.