SENEGAL25 May 2010, Dakar - Food Security Analyst Papa Boubacar Soumare (R) and his Assistant Youm Khady (L) working together at the FAO Representation Office. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Pa...

SENEGAL18 May 2010, Dakar, Senegal - A chemist cleaning a strip of plastic membrane used to absorb chemicals in water in lab investigations at the Ceres Locustox Laboratory. After the membrane has soaked up...

SENEGAL25 May 2010, Dakar - Administrative Assistant Dioma Diagne working at her desk at the FAO Representation Office. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative Training in Integrated Prod...

SENEGAL25 May 2010, Dakar - Programme Assistant Ousseynou Diop working at his desk at the FAO Representation Office. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative Training in Integrated Product...

SENEGAL25 May 2010, Dakar - Programme Assistant Ousseynou Diop (R) and Water Quality Promotion Project Coordinator Ndeye Mama Toure Dieng (L) working together at the FAO Representation Office. GCP/RAF/009/N...

SENEGAL25 May 2010, Dakar - Programme Assistant Ousseynou Diop working at his desk at the FAO Representation Office. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative Training in Integrated Product...

SENEGAL18 May 2010, Dakar, Senegal - A chemical engineer displaying a jar containing a rare chemical used as a marker in pesticide analyses at the Ceres Locustox Laboratory. EP/INT/606/GEF: Reducing Depende...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - A farmer harvesting water from a well to water crops. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative Training in Integrated Production and Pest Management through Fa...

SENEGAL25 May 2010, Dakar - Programme Assistant Ousseynou Diop working at his desk at the FAO Representation Office. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative Training in Integrated Product...

SENEGAL18 May 2010, Dakar, Senegal - A sample of a rare chemical being transferred into a vial to be used as a marker in the analysis of chemcials present in water samples from nearby farming communities. E...

SENEGAL25 May 2010, Dakar - Water Quality Promotion Project Coordinator Ndeye Mama Toure Dieng working at her desk at the FAO Representation Office. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative...

SENEGAL25 May 2010, Dakar - Administrative Clerk Amadou Diagne (R) working at his desk at the FAO Representation Office. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative Training in Integrated Pro...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - A farmer trained in Integrated Production and Pest Management (IPPM) through the Farmer Field Schools planting cabbage seedlings. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Pa...

SENEGAL25 May 2010, Dakar - An exterior view of the FAO representation Offices. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative Training in Integrated Production and Pest Management through Far...

SENEGAL21 May 2010, Louga - A farmer watering onions he is cultivating. This farmer is one of 35 producers who have received IPPM training at the "Projet Maraicher de Louga" cooperative. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Su...

SENEGAL21 May 2010, Louga - A farmer watering an area where onions will be planted. This farmer is one of 35 producers who have received IPPM training at the "Projet Maraicher de Louga" cooperative. GCP/RAF...

SENEGAL21 May 2010, Louga - A farmer pulling up weeds in a turnip field he is cultivating. This farmer is one of 35 producers who have received IPPM training at the "Projet Maraicher de Louga" cooperative....

SENEGAL21 May 2010, Louga - Farmer Field School (FFS) facilitator Momodou Ndiaye displaying a bottle of organic pesticide made from neem tree extracts, grown locally for its many medicinal and curative prope...

SENEGAL21 May 2010, Louga - A farmer carrying watering cans through a lettuce patch he is cultivating. This farmer is one of 35 producers who have received IPPM training at the "Projet Maraicher de Louga" co...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - A woman carrying water to irrigate a cabbage patch. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative Training in Integrated Production and Pest Management through Farm...

SENEGAL19 May 2010, Pont Gendarme - A chemical engineer (left) with a lab assistant preparing a filter for collecting pesticide residues from water before submerging it in the reservoir of an irrigation pump...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - A farmer spraying a cabbage crop with an organic pesticide. The main objective of the IPPM program is to help farmers reduce their pesticide usage, while increasing production. T...

SENEGAL20 May 2010, Kodith - A farmer measuring growth rates of a rice crop while his colleague records the data as part of an exercise at a Farmer Field School (FFS). This data will be compared to the data...

SENEGAL20 May 2010, Kodith - A group of farmers learning about insect damage and pesticide use at a Farmer Field School (FFS). The FFS Facilitator Abou Harouna Anne (left) was trained under the IPPM Programm...

SENEGAL20 May 2010, Kodith - FAO Senegal National Coordinator for the IPPM Programme Makhfousse Sarra (left) teaching a farmer about pests and rice. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative...

SENEGALFAO IPPM regional coordinator Hama Garba speaks with farmers and Integrated Production and Pest Management (IPPM) facilitators as they monitor a field school near the village of Loboudou Doue, Senegal...

SENEGAL19 May 2010, Pont Gendarme - FAO IPPM Regional Coordinator Hama Garba (right) and colleague Makhfousse Sarra inspecting data collected from water samples from a nearby water source. GCP/RAF/009/NET:...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - A farmer trained in Integrated Production and Pest Management (IPPM) through the Farmer Field Schools cultivating cabbage seedlings in a trial garden. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regio...

SENEGAL20 May 2010, Loboudou Doue - A farmer learning to use a rotating hoe for weed control in a Farmer Field School rice paddy. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative Training in Integ...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - A man filling buckets with water from a well to water crops. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative Training in Integrated Production and Pest Management thr...

SENEGAL19 May 2010, Pont Gendarme - Women sifting grains of rice. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative Training in Integrated Production and Pest Management through Farmer Field Schoo...

SENEGAL19 May 2010, Pont Gendarme - A woman collecting drinking water from a puddle next to a farming irrigation channel. The village has no source of safe drinking water and many villagers use water from ir...

SENEGAL20 May 2010, Kodith - A farmer woman using a magnifying glass to check rice reeds for insects. As part of the Integrated Production and Pest Management (IPPM) Programme farmers learn to decipher how m...

SENEGAL18 May 2010, Dakar, Senegal - A lab worker entering the chemical area of the Ceres Locustox Laboratory. EP/INT/606/GEF: Reducing Dependence on POPs and other Agro-Chemicals in the Senegal and Niger R...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye, Senegal - A tree used to make organic pesticides growing in a cabbage field of a Farmer Field School. The Integrated Production and Pest Management IPPM project promotes the use o...

SENEGAL18 May 2010, Dakar, Senegal - A sample of pureed okra being prepared for analysis of pesticides at the Ceres Locustox Laboratory. EP/INT/606/GEF: Reducing Dependence on POPs and other Agro-Chemicals...

SENEGAL18 May 2010, Dakar, Senegal - Lab assistant Adama Ndiaye of the Ceres Locustox Laboratory preparing a puree of okra collected from the field as a sample for pesticide analysis. EP/INT/606/GEF: Reduci...

SENEGAL18 May 2010, Dakar, Senegal - Vials of water samples being placed in a machine used to detect pesticides at the Ceres Locustox Laboratory. EP/INT/606/GEF: Reducing Dependence on POPs and other Agro-C...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - Integrated Production and Pest Management IPPM trainer Ayoba Faye (C) showing a farmer (L) how to properly loosen the soil around young cabbage plants in a Farmer Field School tr...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - A woman carrying water to irrigate a cabbage patch. GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programme for Participative Training in Integrated Production and Pest Management through Farm...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - Farmers checking the growth of cabbage plants in a farmer field school. The field is divided into two parts where farmers implement improved techniques in one part and traditiona...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - A farmer trained in Integrated Production and Pest Management (IPPM) through the Farmer Field Schools stirring the soil around cabbage seedlings in a trial garden to facilitate r...

SENEGAL18 May 2010, Dakar, Senegal - Lab technicians leaving the main building at the Ceres Locustox Laboratory. EP/INT/606/GEF: Reducing Dependence on POPs and other Agro-Chemicals in the Senegal and Niger...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye, Senegal - Farmers attending a weekly IPPM training session. The session offers an occasion to learn about improved farming techniques and to share observations on the growth of pl...

SENEGAL18 May 2010, Dakar, Senegal - A sample of a rare chemical being transferred into a vial to be used as a marker in the analysis of chemcials present in water samples from nearby farming communities. E...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Keur Mbir Ndao - Farmers attending a training session on Integrated Production and Pest Management (IPPM) through the Farmer Field Schools (FFS). GCP/RAF/009/NET: Sub-Regional Programm...

SENEGAL19 May 2010, Pont Gendarme - A metal filter being fitted with a plastic strip for collecting pesticide residues for inspection. The filter will be placed in a reservoir of an irrigation pumping statio...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - Farmers checking the growth of cabbage plants in a farmer field school. The field is divided into two parts where farmers implement improved techniques in one part and traditiona...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - Farmers checking the growth of cabbage plants in a farmer field school. The field is divided into two parts where farmers implement improved techniques in one part and traditiona...

SENEGAL18 May 2010, Dakar, Senegal - A lab technician analysing a plastic membrane for absorption of various pesticides from water samples of a nearby farming communities at the Ceres Locustox Laboratory. E...

SENEGAL18 May 2010, Dakar, Senegal - A computer screen showing various chemicals present in a water sample brought back from the field to the Ceres Locustox Laboratory. EP/INT/606/GEF: Reducing Dependence...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Keur Mbir Ndao - A farmer woman carrying an organic pesticide dispenser for spraying cabbage crops. The Farmer Field Schools (FFS) promote use of eco-friendly, organic solutions to fight...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - An FAO project on Integrated Production and Pest Management (IPPM) beneficiary transfering water from a well into a concrete tank while working in her family cabbage garden. Mana...

SENEGAL18 May 2010, Dakar, Senegal - Lab technicians in the Ceres Locustox Laboratory that works in partnership with FAO in analyzing samples collected from farming areas to detect pesticide contents of wate...

ITALY12 October 2009, Rome - FAO Permanent Representative and Ambassador to FAO for the United Kingdom James Alexander Harvey on the panel for the World Food Day Event on Delivering on Commitments to Eradi...

ITALY12 October 2009, Rome - FAO Permanent Representative and Ambassador to FAO for the United Kingdom James Alexander Harvey on the panel for the World Food Day Event on Delivering on Commitments to Eradi...

ItalyFlags flying at FAO Headquarters. - - General: General. The second World Food Day was observed with a special ceremony Saturday in Plenary Hall at the headquarters of the Food and Agricultural Organiz...

ItalyGeneral view of Plenary Hall during the World Food Day Ceremony. - - General: General. The second World Food Day was observed with a special ceremony Saturday in Plenary Hall at the headquarters of th...

IndonesiaRice harvesting is a slow and painstaking operation in the Solo River region - each stalk has to be cut separately. - - Fertilizer and Crop Yield Improvement in the Upper Solo River Basin. Erosion is...