PeruAn extension agent explains how to make slow-forming terraces, which require deep topsoil and consist of a series of walls built across the slope and heightening as they begin to fill in. - - Soil Con...
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PeruThis erosion box is a teaching aid, which demonstrates, in miniature, the erosive effect of water on different soil contours. - - Soil Conservation in the Andes. Terraced agriculture was practiced on...
00020319
PeruCrops in the Peruvian coastal flatlands that have been ruined by flooding, the eroded and deforested mountain sides having been unable to hold the rush of waters. - - Soil Conservation in the Andes. T...
00020129
HaitiBuilding an anti-erosion dry stonewall across a gully in the mountainous region of Limbà? The wall, one of several in this and other mountain gullies, will control water flows during torrential rains...
00020078
NepalWild mountain wheat in the Himalayas. - - General: General. One of the world's most dramatic erosion and deforestation situations is in Nepal where forests, up to heights of 2 000 m have totally disap...
00020077
NepalAn old Gurung peasant farmer tends a newly planted pine tree as part of a village community forestry project. - - General: General. One of the world's most dramatic erosion and deforestation situation...
00020075
NepalFarmers planting young pine trees as part of a community forestry development project in the Himalayan foothills. - - General: General. One of the world's most dramatic erosion and deforestation situa...
00020041
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...
00020023
PeruPeruvian mother and child in the Sierra region of the Andes. - - Vulnerable Group Feeding. The project supported by the UN/FAO World Food Programme (WFP) is providing food assistance worth just over U...
00020024
PeruWomen sorting coffee at a cooperative in the Puno District. - - Vulnerable Group Feeding. The project supported by the UN/FAO World Food Programme (WFP), is providing food assistance worth just over U...
00020039
ThailandTrees destroyed for hillside rice cultivation. Rice is grown for 2-3 years on steep slopes, until the soil is exhausted. The fields are then abandoned and more forest land is cleared to create new fi...
00020029
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...
00020044
ThailandGood maize crop grown in pilot demonstration area of Mai Sa. - - Integrated Watershed Management and Forest Land Use Project. People desperately in need of land for cultivation are rapidly destroying...
00020022
PeruPeruvian children outside a travel agency office near Lima. - - Vulnerable Group Feeding. The project supported by the UN/FAO World Food Programme (WFP), is providing food assistance worth just over U...
00020042
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...
00020043
ThailandForest nursery in the Mai Sa project area to provide seedlings for reforestation of bare and eroded land. - - Integrated Watershed Management and Forest Land Use Project. People desperately in need of...
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TunisiaWorkers constructing a new dam. - - Dams for Cactus Growing. Southern Tunisia has few sources of income. The land is poor, water scarce and the farmers eke out a living from sheep rearing and the cult...
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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...
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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...
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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...
00019810
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...
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PeruLlamas on a mountain road in the Altiplano of Peru. Llamas are used by the Inca Indians of Peru primarily as beasts of burden. - - FAO/UNDP Project. Animal products play an important part in the predo...
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Democratic Republic of the CongoThursday 13 March 2008
Kinshasa (PNUD)
FAO Goodwill Ambassador Miriam Makeba meets with Ross Mountain, DRC Humanitarian Coordinator for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian...
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Democratic Republic of the CongoThursday 13 March 2008
Kinshasa (PNUD)
FAO Goodwill Ambassador Miriam Makeba meets with Ross Mountain, DRC Humanitarian Coordinator for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian...
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ArmeniaFAO Project TCP/ARM/3202 (08/VI/ARM/212): Input supply to vulnerable populations under the Initiative on Soaring Food Prices. Project objectives: To maintain livelihoods and food security of the most...
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ArmeniaFAO Project TCP/ARM/3202 (08/VI/ARM/212): Input supply to vulnerable populations under the Initiative on Soaring Food Prices. Project objectives: To maintain livelihoods and food security of the most...
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ArmeniaFAO Project TCP/ARM/3202 (08/VI/ARM/212): Input supply to vulnerable populations under the Initiative on Soaring Food Prices. Project objectives: To maintain livelihoods and food security of the most...
00012173
ArmeniaFAO Project TCP/ARM/3202 (08/VI/ARM/212): Input supply to vulnerable populations under the Initiative on Soaring Food Prices. Project objectives: To maintain livelihoods and food security of the most...
00012182
ArmeniaFAO Project TCP/ARM/3202 (08/VI/ARM/212): Input supply to vulnerable populations under the Initiative on Soaring Food Prices. Project objectives: To maintain livelihoods and food security of the most...
00012090
ArmeniaFAO Project TCP/ARM/3202 (08/VI/ARM/212): Input supply to vulnerable populations under the Initiative on Soaring Food Prices. Project objectives: To maintain livelihoods and food security of the most...
00012093
ArmeniaFAO Project TCP/ARM/3202 (08/VI/ARM/212): Input supply to vulnerable populations under the Initiative on Soaring Food Prices. Project objectives: To maintain livelihoods and food security of the most...
