PeruPeruvian purse seiners. - - General: General.

PeruAnchovy fishmeal. Los Ferroels fishmeal plant. - - General: General.

PeruPeruvian purse seiners. - - General: General.

PeruSack of anchovy fishmeal at Los Ferroels plant. - - General: General.

PeruPeruvian purse seiners. - - General: General.

PeruSack of anchovy fishmeal at Los Ferroels plant. - - General: General.

PeruLos Ferroles fishmeal plant. In the background, fishing boats ready to transfer the catch. - - General: General.

Peru"Chata" lighter to transfer catch from boat to processing plant. - - General: General.

PeruLos Ferroles fishmeal plant. - - General: General.

PeruThe hold of a fishing boat full of anchoveta (Engraulis rigens). - - General: General.

PeruHold of a fishing boat full of anchoveta (Engraulis rigens). - - General: General.

MauritaniaModern small-scale fisheries: octopus pot fishermen fishing at Nouadhibou. - - General: General.

MoroccoMedium-sized fishing vessels at Agadir. - - General: General.

MauritaniaAn industrial trawler stranded on a beach in Mauritania. - - General: General.

MauritaniaPolluted beach. - - General: General.

ItalyAn example of marine aquaculture. Mussel farming in the Mediterranean. - - General: General.

PeruFishing for anchovies (Engraulis rigens). - - General: General.

PeruPeruvian boat fishing for anchovies (Engraulis rigens). - - General: General.

PeruPeruvian boat fishing for anchovies (Engraulis rigens). - - General: General.

PeruFishing for anchovies (Engraulis rigens). - - General: General.

PeruPeruvian scientist taking a chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) sample on board a fishing boat. - - General: General.

PeruPelicans (Pelecanus thagus) and gannets (Sula veriegata) on a fishing boat net. - - General: General.

PeruDeploying a purse seine. - - General: General.

EritreaTraditional fishing boat used for semi-industrial fishing in the Red Sea. - - The immediate objectives are: 1) rehabilitation of the fleet - to support fish production by ensuring an adequate supply o...

BangladeshSundarbans mangrove forest, Bangladesh. Cross-section of a Sundri wood log showing marine borers attacking stems of live trees in the sea. - - Integrated Resource Development of the Sundarbans Reserv...

BangladeshSundarbans mangrove forest, Bangladesh. Rhizophora sp. are found only near the sea. The bright calorific value of their wood has resulted in overexploitation of the species and they are now rare. - -...

MexicoScene on the beach of a fishing village. The net has just been pulled out of the sea. - -

PhilippinesTo augment meager familiy incomes, children help by cleaning out small sea shells. After cleaning, the young girls tie each shell with a thin nylon string. This particular shell, called sigay locally...

PhilippinesTo augment meager family incomes, children help by cleaning out small sea shells. After cleaning, the young girls tie each shell with a thin nylon string. This particular shell, called sigay locally,...

PhilippinesThe fishing village of Luciente, Pangasinan, Philippines with bancas, traditional fishing boats used in the open sea - - Status of disadvantaged women in small-scale fishing communities: FPA/PHI/916/F...

PhilippinesFish are brought to the town market where waiting buyers/vendors buy them at an agreed price for resale to the public. - - The status of disadvantaged women in small-scale fishing community: FPA/PHI/9...

MauritaniaMembers of the desert locust survey team have killed a goat and roasted part of it. Here, pieces of meat are drying on a tree and will be used for future meals at their encampment near Tijinit. - - In...

MauritaniaDead locusts laid out on the sand to show the density of 200 per square metre. - - In 1993, the Emergency Centre for Locust Operations (ECLO) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), mobiliz...

MauritaniaMember of team carrying out a ground survey to determine the extent of the invasion and damage caused by an immature swarm of desert locusts 35 km. south of Nouakchott. - - In 1993, the Emergency Cen...

ChinaA fishing boat moored on mud flats, south-west coast of Liaoning Province. In the northern part of the Yellow Sea, the coastal fishing fleet is in poor condition and wooden boats are shoddily built....

Viet NamCasuarina trees planted in sandy soil near the sea in Quang Tri province. - - FAO Small-holder reforestation Project: VIE/92/022. This is a nationwide programme with the participation of 212.000 farme...

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...

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...

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...

MauritaniaDesert locust survey team make a stop for tea in their driver's family tent south of Akjoujt. - - In 1993, the Emergency Centre for Locust Operations (ECLO) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization...

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...

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...

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...

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...

PeruPuno womenÂ?cooperative at Lake Titicaca, 3900 m. above sea level. Members preparing concentrated feed for trout that are being bred in the lake. - -

PeruTrout breeding is carried out by members of Puno womenÂ?cooperative at Lake Titicaca, 3900 m. above sea level. - -

PeruPuno womenÂ?cooperative at Lake Titicaca, 3900 m. above sea level. Members preparing concentrated feed for trout that are being bred in the lake. - -

IndiaVillagers all help pull in a fishing net which has been set in a semi-circle from open boats in the Arabian Sea about 500 metres off the beach. - -

IndiaVillagers all help pull in a fishing net which has been set in a semi-circle from open boats in the Arabian Sea about 500 metres off the beach. - -

IndiaVillagers all help pull in a fishing net which has been set in a semi-circle from open boats in the Arabian Sea about 500 metres off the beach. - -

IndiaVillagers all help pull in a fishing net which has been set in a semi-circle from open boats in the Arabian Sea about 500 metres off the beach. - -

IndiaVillagers all help pull in a fishing net which has been set in a semi-circle from open boats in the Arabian Sea about 500 metres off the beach. - -

IndiaVillagers all help pull in a fishing net which has been set in a semi-circle from open boats in the Arabian Sea about 500 metres off the beach. - -

ThailandInstallations for the extraction of sea salt in the Samut Song-Kram region - -

Viet NamA worker in a salt flat near the coast on central Viet Nam. - - General: General.

EgyptFish market in Cairo. Fish production in Egypt accounts for a total of 340,000 tons per year, including inland fisheries (large water surfaces such as lakes, ponds, and rice fields) and sea coastal fi...

Cabo VerdeTurtles are sometimes caught by small-scale fishermen. - - The Programme for lntegrated Development of Artisanal Fisheries in West Africa (IDAF). The Programme for lntegrated Development of Artisanal...

NepalRice transplanting. Reality of life starts very early for these children who are trying to imitate their parents. - - General: General. The Kingdom of Nepal with an area of 147 181 km2 is located on t...

NepalTerracing in Trisuli area. - - Nepal, with an area of 147,181 km2., is a Kingdom located on the mid-Himalayan Section of Asia. It is a small landlocked country, situated at a distance of about 500 km....

NepalThe necessity to preserve soil fertillity and improve crop productivity, oblige women to cover hundreds of kms. transporting farmyard manure. In a "doko" a woman can carry about 20 kgs: the quantity o...

JamaicaDraining water from a basin into a canal. - - Desalinization and Lowering of Water Table on Monymusk Sugar Estate. The land used for growing sugar cane is irrigated by a 100-year-old aqueduct that car...

IndiaWomen trainees from the Farm Science Centre practice collecting prawn seeds in the backwaters of the Arabian Sea on Vypeen Island near Cochin. They will sort the seeds for selective stocking of local...

IndiaMariculture students prepare a white prawn for an experiment in the Institute's "wet lab" where physiology and nutritional experiments are conducted. White prawns are favoured for commercial farming....

IndiaMariculture students remark on algae being cultured to feed young oysters raised in the Institute's "wet lab" where physiology and nutritional experiments are conducted. - - Mariculture Research and P...

IndiaA prize, one-eyed female tiger prawn raised at the prawn hatchery field laboratory on Vypeen Island near Cochin. By removing an eyestalk, the Institute has induced breeding of crustaceans, not possibl...

ThailandPhan Nga Bay fisherman tending his mussel farm under the FAO Bay of Bengal Programme. This aquaculture project is improving the economy of the fishermen in this area. - - General: General.

HaitiFishing boat off the coast at Les Cayes. - - 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...

PhilippinesFilipino children with aquaculture pond in the background in Lucena City, Luzon. - - FAO/UNDP South China Sea Development and Coordinating Programme (SCSP). The FAO/UNDP South China Sea Development an...

Greenland01 January 1981 - A woman sorting shrimp at the Godthaab Fish Industry (GFI) processing plant. Greenland resembles an ice-filled bowl rimmed by coastal ranges. In the centre,the thick ice overburden h...

Bolivia (Plurinational State of)Women with cattle on the altiplano of Bolivia at over 4 000 meters above sea level. - - WFP Aid to Dairy Industry. The UN/FAO World Food Programme (WFP) is assisting the country's dairy industry wit...

SenegalFishermen put out to sea in a pirogue from the beach of Kayar, a fishing village about 50 km north of Dakar. - - West Africa's Fisheries. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. (FAO) has la...

GhanaFishermen unloading froezen fish from a fishing vessel at the port of Tema. - - Fisheries. Since much of Ghana is not a natural rearing zone for livestock, the main local source of meat protein is fis...

IndonesiaSunset over rice paddies in the Lawu valley, east Java. - - Environmental Deterioration and the Threat to Food and Agriculture. Erosion is one of the principal problems impeding the development of agr...

IndonesiaRice paddies in the Lawu valley, east Java. - - Environmental Deterioration and the Threat to Food and Agriculture. Erosion is one of the principal problems impeding the development of agriculture in...

IndonesiaHarvesting rice in east Java. - - Environmental Deterioration and the Threat to Food and Agriculture. Erosion is one of the principal problems impeding the development of agriculture in Central and Ea...

IndonesiaMaze-like terracing of rice paddy near Lawu. - - Environmental Deterioration and the Threat to Food and Agriculture. Erosion is one of the principal problems impeding the development of agriculture in...