TURKEYTurkish Thrace, Spring 1966. A veterinary team from Kirklareli province, capital of the Turkish province of the same name, vaccinate sheep against foot and mouth disease in a village near the Bulgar...

TurkeyTurkish Thrace, Spring 1966. Veterinarians from Kirklareli province, most eastern of the five that make up European Turkish Thrace, vaccinate sheep against foot and mouth disease. Since 1962 Europe ha...

CHINACHINA, 1988 At the beginning of 1988, there were 51 FAO-executed or administered projects in the People's Republic of China, the world's most populous nation. Of these, 24 were UN Development Progr...

THAILANDSMALL FARMERS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME: SOUTH THAILAND, June 1987 The Small Farmer's Development Programme, launched in 1976 by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is helping agricultural l...

THAILANDThailand: 1989 Over the past few decades the Kingdom of Thailand has made such impressive advance in overall development that it is believed that it may soon become a ?NIC? - ?newly industrialized co...

PAKISTANPAKISTAN, 1987 The Islamic Republic of Pakistan covers 804.000 sq.kms. of the Indian Subcontinent. Much of the country is treeless and arid and deficient in water supplies. Only 21 percent of the l...

AFGHANISTANFOOD ASSISTANCE TO BOARDING SCHOOLS AND THE UNIVERSITY IN KABUL. Afghanistan. 1970. In order to make higher education available to students from areas where there are as yet no high schools, the G...

GUATEMALATRAINING FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT, Guatemala, December, 1972. The main purpose of the UN/FAO World Food Programme (WFP) project is the feeding of students at the Technical Institute for Agriculture,...

BRAZILSchool Feeding in the Sao Francisco Valley - Brazil, 1968. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and has the eighth largest population. Its problems are also on a continental scale and pove...

PHILIPPINESPhilippines 1987 - There are currently 29 FAO-Assisted development projects underway in the Philippines, all within FAO's three main fields of endavour: fisheries, forestry and agriculture. Bamboo...

Viet NamA street vendor lays out her wares. - -

Viet NamA boy drives a bullock cart in Bac Ninh province, 100 km north of Hanoi. - - General: General.

Viet NamWomen harvesting rice in Bac Ninh province, 100 km. north of Hanoi. - -

Viet NamA street vendor offers chickens for sale. - -

Viet NamPeasants working in the fields in Thanh Hoa province, some 250 kilometres south of Hanoi. - -

Viet NamA street vendor offers apples for sale. - -

Viet NamA street vendor sells fruit in Bac Ninh. - -

Viet NamA vendor brings produce to market on her bicycle in Hanoi. - - General: General.

Viet NamA portrait of a woman in Thanh Hoa province, some 250 kilometres south of Hanoi. - -

Viet NamA street in Hanoi. - -

Viet NamWorkers bringing log booms down river in Thanh Hoa province, some 250 kilometres south of Hanoi. - -

Viet NamBoats on the Red River in Hanoi. - -

Viet NamPeople crossing the Red River. - -

Viet NamA woman with a cow or bull in Than Hoa province, some 250 kilometres south of Hanoi. - -

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

Viet NamTypical rural scene from the Vietnamese countryside: people at work in a rice field. - - Of all the many forms of malnutrition perhaps none, short of starvation itself is more visibly tragic, especial...

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

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

Viet NamWoman watering a communal garden. Home and communal gardens grow the quality vegetables that, once properly prepared to local taste, are the long-term solution to the problem of Vitamin A deficiency i...

IndonesiaWives of the local workmen on the FAO-assisted water management project at Ciwidey village in western Java, bring lunch to their husbands. - - General: General.

ThailandYoung mother and child of the Lisu in Northern Thailand. The Lisu are one of the country's seven major hill tribes. All seven are easily distinguishable by their colour and different home-made attire....

Viet NamCloseup of woman street vendor selling bananas. - -

IndonesiaTraditional methods of preserving fish and other marine products are still in use in this fishing village some 20 kilometres from Jakarta. - - General: General.

Lao People's Democratic RepublicFishermen ply their trade at sunset in southern Laos on one of the many tributaries of the mighty Mekong River. The Mekong, one of Asia - -

IndonesiaView of the main fish market just outside Jakarta. - - Since its independence in 1948, the Republic of Indonesia has registered major progress in many fields. This has been especially true over the pa...

IndonesiaYoung girls of a Muslim elementary school in the Cianjur District of western Java work in the school's large home garden. The vegetables grown in the school garden help prevent Vitamin A deficiency, w...

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

IndonesiaWorkers at the FAO-assisted Integrated Pest Management Project (IPM), some 150 kilometres from Jakarta, check rice shoots from one of the project's many experimental plots. - - Since its independence...

ThailandLocal farm workers are using a long hosepipe to water crops on one of the UNDP-FAO assisted project's newly well-managed farm sites. - - Reforestation Project in Khao Khor. Khao Khor is the scene of t...

IndonesiaA display of some typical foodstuffs used in every day cuisine in Indonesia. - - General: General. Since its independence in 1948, the Republic of Indonesia has registered major progress in many field...

Republic of KoreaA street food shop on the outskirts of Seoul. - - General: General.

ThailandA Bangkok street food vendor. - - General: General.

IndonesiaInside Indonesia's largest and ultra-modern pulp and paper mill in northern Sumatra. - - General: General. The Republic of Indonesia is made up of 13 700 islands housing an estimated population of 185...

BhutanBhutanese farmers at work in their rice fields in the Wangdiphodrang Valley, some 100 kilometres and three mountain ranges east of Thimphu. - - Forestry and Agriculture Development. Bhutan, a small la...

IndonesiaA view of the inter-island "timber port" of Jakarta. Indonesia is extremely rich in tropical forests and most of its forestry byproducts pass through the capital's main port. - - General: General. The...

Viet NamWorkers tending a large community mangrove forest south of Ho Chi Minh City. The wood produced in this 25,000 hectare forest is used for making charcoal for the stoves of Ho Chi Minh City. - - General...

ThailandAn Ahka girl working at hand loom to produce "Hill Tribe" festive finery, as she herself is wearing, at the New Life Centre in Chiang Mai, Thailand's second largest city and unofficial capital of the...

ThailandA Yao grandmother and her small grandson in a remote mountainous area of northern Thailand. - - General: General. Over the past few decades the Kingdom of Thailand has made such impressive advances in...

PhilippinesNew varieties of high-yielding miracle rice under test and development at the International Rice Research Institite (IRRI) at Los Banos near Manila in the Philippines - -

ThailandYoung women workers at the Doi Inthanon highland development and research station in mountainous northern Thailand. They are packing strawberries grown by the royal project for both export and local s...

ThailandA view of one of the many green houses for growing flowers for sale on both the domestic Thai and export markets at Doi Kham, a research and production centre of the FAO-assisted Royal Project for Hil...

ThailandFarmers of the plains of nrthern Thailand transplanting upland rice seedlings. - - Over the past few decades the Thailand has made such impressive advances in overall development that it is believed t...

Viet NamVietnamese farm women take a break from threshing rice, south of Hanoi. - - The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has a population of 65 million and covers an area of 329,556 square kilometres, most of w...

Viet NamYoung woman winnowing rice in a rural area north of Hanoi. - - The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has a population of 65 million and covers an area of 329,556 square kilometres, most of which has been...

Viet NamView of part of a new 25,000 hectare mangrove forest southwest of Ho Chi Ming City. The mangrove harvested is used for making charcoal. - - General: General. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam has a po...

PhilippinesA riverboat loaded with fuelwood for sale in village markets in Mindanao, the most southern of the Philippines' major islands. - - General: General. The Republic of the Philippines is made up of more...

PhilippinesA group of Filipino forestry officials look over a burnt-out section of prime tropical forests destroyed by nomadic slash-and-burn farmers in Suriago del Sur, province of Mindanao, the most southern o...

PhilippinesA farmer ploughing his rice fields with carabao, the local name for the water buffalo, ubiquitious throughout the rice lands of Asia. - - General: General. The Republic of the Philippines is made up o...

NepalRural women of west-central Nepal carrying loads of fuelwood from nearby forests to their mountain homes. - - FAO in Nepal. The land-locked Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, with approximately 18 million in...

ChinaA duck farm on the shores of Lake Taihu in Jaingsu province. - - General: General. At the beginning of 1988, there were 51 FAO-executed or administered projects in the People's Republic of China, the...

BhutanMan made terraces blanket the Valley of Thimphu in the central highlands of Bhutan. Farmers here alternate the growing of rice, wheat, barley, potatoes and vegetables in the terraced fields. - - Fores...

BhutanWomen farmers transplant rice in the rain in their terraced fields in the Valley of Paro, the site of Bhutan's only airport. Helping one another transplant and harvest the rice crop has long been a tr...

ChinaA woman draws water from a communal pump in one of the many farming villages of Sichuan, Chinaà??argest province. - - Agricultural Reform in China. Since the "second revolution" in economic reform tha...

ChinaPeasant farmers thresh their rice harvest by hand at one of the thousands of villages in the huge Sichuan province. - - Agricultural Reform in China. Since the "second revolution" in economic reform t...

NepalNepali farmers plough the recently harvested paddy fields to plant wheat. In most of Nepal, the paddy season is followed by the wheat and coarse grains season. - - General: General. The land-locked Hi...

BhutanMeat for sale in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Today, under "family farming", China's basic agricultural strategy, families who have fulfilled their status quota for a crop in their region, may do other...

BhutanWomen workers sort and clean mushrooms at the FAO assisted mushroom production centre at Phuntsholing. Mushrooms were almost unknown in Bhutan until recently, now they are an important crop and more c...

BhutanTimber unloading yard at a new forest industries plant in a mountain village between Thimphu and Phuntsholing. The factory, managed by an FAO expert, produces plywood, fibreboard, panels and construct...

BhutanA young farmer transplants rice in the rain outside a village in the Valley of Paro in the central highlands of Bhutan. Bhutan is famous for its "red rice", grown only on terraces in the mountain vall...

MyanmarWorkers at a state-run aquaculture farm in central Burma (Myanmar) harvest silver and pink carp with large nets from one of the many fishponds. FAO's fisheries programme is seeking to develop both com...

BhutanFarming families at work in the terraced fields of the Valley of Thimphu in the central highlands of Bhutan. Helping one another transplant and harvest the rice crop is an ancient tradition among Bhut...

NepalA worker at the Nepal Vegetable Development Division outside Kathmandu examines new, bigger varieties of white and red radishes grown on the Division's demonstration plots. - - Vegetable and Seed Prog...

ThailandThai farmer collecting maize with his ox-drawn cart. - - Forestry Rehabilitation and Diversification. Poverty and rapid deforestation characterize the northeastern region of Thailand. The government o...

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.

ThailandAn area in Thailand's northeast following a bushfire. Once heavily forested, northeast Thailand has lost about 3/4 of its tree cover over the last 25 years, triggering serious problems of erosion, env...

ZambiaAgricultural mechanization at the Chapula training centre. - - Small Scale Irrigation, Development and Training for Vegetable Cultivation Agriculture. Small Scale Irrigation, Development and Training...

ItalyA crate of mixed vegetables including cabbage, tomatoes, carrots, leeks, onions, lettuce, at a market in Italy. - - General: General.

GuatemalaSince the earthquake, brick and cement block production for house building has reached an all-time record. These workers, at Chimaltenango, receive part of their wages as WFP rations. - - Earthquake V...

ItalyCrates of lettuce on sale at a market in Italy. - - General: General.

ArgentinaHigh qua1ity sheep on a large government breeding and research station near Ba1carce. They are receiving an injection which wi1l protect them against stomach parasites. - - Intensification of Animal P...

SomaliaIrrigation is an important element in the production of bananas on a state-owned plantation about 130km southwest of Mogadiscio. Workers receive WFP rations. - - Agricultural Development. The purpose...

NepalCarp of good marketable size which have just been harvested from one of the ponds at the Pipley fish culture station in the Hetaura plain. - - Inland Fisheries Development. Due to the scarcity of meat...

ParaguayThe IguasË?Falls, at a point on the Parana river where the borders of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet, are the largest in the western hemisphere. They are in a region of tropical rain forests rich...

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...

AfghanistanVineyard workers in the Kog-Ikaman Valley vigorously dig deeper around their vines so that the soil will hold water longer and produce more and better grapes. - - Swedish Financed Project. The project...

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...

GhanaA young fish vendor in the market at Akosombo. Since completion of the dam in 1965 catches have grown from a few thousand tons to sixty thousand tons. - - Volta Lake Research. The construction of the...

IndiaA shepherd girl in the dry plateau country of South Bihar. - -

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...

ChileFisherman with his catch of prawns at Valparaiso. - - Fisheries Development (UNDP). The Government is encouraging the development of fisheries industry through the establishment of a National Fisherie...

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...

EcuadorImproved implements for small farms in in the highlands (FFHC/Unesco GIT coupon). These lads of Ecuador's 4-F Clubs are being taught to use - in this case - Japanese - ploughs for better cultivation o...

JamaicaHugh Harries, botanist and plant breeder with the Coconut Industry Board, examines healthy coconuts in an experimental grove at Clifton Hill. - - Research on Lethal Yellowing Disease of Coconuts. Ever...