NamibiaPacking house workers on Naute government farm process dates for export. - - Support to the Date Production Programme, Namibia - Introduction of Date Palm Cultivation into Communal Farming adn Hardap...

NamibiaFarm workers on the Naute government farm carefully picking ripe dates for export. - - Support to the Date Production Programme, Namibia - Introduction of Date Palm Cultivation into Communal Farming a...

NamibiaPacking house workers on Naute government farm process dates for export. - - Support to the Date Production Programme, Namibia - Introduction of Date Palm Cultivation into Communal Farming adn Hardap...

NamibiaFarm workers on the Naute government farm carefully picking ripe dates for export. - - Support to the Date Production Programme, Namibia - Introduction of Date Palm Cultivation into Communal Farming a...

NamibiaFarm workers on the Naute government farm carefully picking ripe dates for export. - - Support to the Date Production Programme, Namibia - Introduction of Date Palm Cultivation into Communal Farming a...

NamibiaPacking house workers on Naute government farm process dates for export. - - Support to the Date Production Programme, Namibia - Introduction of Date Palm Cultivation into Communal Farming adn Hardap...

NamibiaPacking house workers on Naute government farm process dates for export. - - Support to the Date Production Programme, Namibia - Introduction of Date Palm Cultivation into Communal Farming adn Hardap...

NamibiaFarm workers on the Naute government farm carefully picking ripe dates for export. - - Support to the Date Production Programme, Namibia - Introduction of Date Palm Cultivation into Communal Farming a...

NamibiaWorkers at the Luderitz mariculture oyster farm which produces 25, 000 oysters a week for markets in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. The young oysters are kept inside mesh bags, which are lo...

PeruWorkers repairing terraces in the Sacred Inca Valley. - - General: General.

PeruWorkers harvesting potatoes from an experimental plot at the Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), International Potato Center. They select two different kinds of the same potato and sort them into p...

PeruWorkers harvesting potatoes from an experimental plot at the Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), International Potato Center. They select two different kinds of the same potato and sort them into p...

PeruWomen and baby hitching a lift from a pick-up truck traveling in the Sacred Inca Valley. - - General: General.

BangladeshWorkers carrying sand for construction. - - General: General.

GeorgiaYoung farm boy helping his family to husk maize after the harvest. - - Small-scale Irrigation and Drainage Rehabilitation: TCP/GEO/8821/D.

GeorgiaYoung farm girl helping her family to husk maize after the harvest. - - Small-scale Irrigation and Drainage Rehabilitation: TCP/GEO/8821/D.

GeorgiaYoung farm boy helping his family to husk maize after the harvest. - - Small-scale Irrigation and Drainage Rehabilitation: TCP/GEO/8821/D.

ChinaWorkers building a canal by the side of a road. - - General: General.

HondurasSpanish colonial village. This is one of the sites where the project is based. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food s...

HondurasSpanish colonial village. Man walking his donkeys. This is one of the sites where the project is based. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The proje...

HondurasWorkers put cheese through a press in a cheese processing plant. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food security throug...

HondurasIn a cheese processing plant, workers weigh cheese. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food security through better agri...

HondurasIn a cheese processing plant, workers boil milk. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food security through better agricul...

ChinaWoman farmer hoeing a field of soybean. - - Production of Autumn Soybean: TFD-99/CPR/003. The project aims to take advantage of the natural resources of Leshan prefecture, extending the already well-d...

HondurasWorkers storing maize in a warehouse. This maize will be used to feed livestock. - - Rural Development for Food Security in the Sur de Lempira Region: GCP/HON/021/NET. The project aims to improve food...

JordanTraditional method of ploughing between olive trees using a donkey to pull the plough. The project gives advice to farmers on ploughing. - - Assistance to Participatory Extension and Training for Oliv...

JordanGroup of women farmers being trained in pruning of olive trees by an extension worker. The upkeep and harvesting of olive trees is often carried out by women on small farms because the trees are usual...

HondurasAerial shots of damage by Hurricane Mitch to agricultural land: African palm crops covered in mud. - - General: General. A tragedy of immense proportions afflicted the four Central American countries...

HondurasAgricultural devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch. Damaged sugar cane crops. - - General: General. A tragedy of immense proportions afflicted the four Central American countries of Honduras, Nicaragu...

HondurasPineapple field destroyed by mud and sand in the wake of flooding caused by Hurricane Mitch. - - General: General. A tragedy of immense proportions afflicted the four Central American countries of Hon...

HungaryMechanization used for gathering grapes in the vineyard for the wine harvest. Seasonal farm workers load crates on to trucks for transportation to the grape-crushing point. - - General: General. Fifty...

HondurasBanana crop destroyed by Hurricane Mitch. Production and export of bananas, a main hard currency earner for Honduras, totally disappeared. This had serious consequences for the financial position of t...

HondurasBanana crop destroyed by Hurricane Mitch. Production and export of bananas, a main hard currency earner for Honduras, totally disappeared. This had serious consequences for the financial position of t...

CambodiaYoung woman winnowing rice. - - FAO/Osro Project. FAO OSRO project: Through the efforts of consultants and extension workers the Project is carrying out fertilizer demonstrations in several provinces...

CambodiaFarmer harvesting rice helped by his small son in the Prey Veng area of Cambodia. - - FAO/OSRO project. FAO OSRO project: Through the efforts of consultants and extension workers the Project is carryi...

CambodiaFarming family returning home with the rice harvest. - - FAO/Osro project. FAO OSRO project: Through the efforts of consultants and extension workers the Project is carrying out fertilizer demonstrati...

Syrian Arab RepublicExperimental irrigated cultivation of eggplant using the drop-by-drop system. Here, workers are hoeing. - - Improved Management of Water Resources for Agricultural Use: SYR/90/001. The main objectives...

BrazilAn extension worker talks with a farmer who has constructed a pen for his cattle following instructions given during video session. - - Consolidation of communication programme and training activities...

ZimbabweCattle being herded into stocks for bleeding and tagging by FAO project workers and veterinary technicians as part of continuing monitoring of vaccination project. - - Tick and Tickborne Disease Contr...

PeruFarm workers restoring traditional terraces. - -

PeruWomen farm workers cultivating lettuce and other vegetables in a garden.

IndiaWorkers harvesting seaweed. - - Bay of Bengal Programme: GCP/RAS/118/MUL (BOBP). The Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP), started in 1979 with headquarters in Madras, India, seeks to help small-scale fishe...

NepalA child farmer of Kavre district. Note the typical large basket on her shoulders. - - Shivapuri Integrated Watershed Development Project: GCP/NEP/049/NET. Shivapuri is one of the main sources of drink...

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...

IndiaA nutritionist recording the activity patterns of women farm workers to assess their energy expenditure after intake of iodine-enriched salt. They are weeding a sorghum field. - - Nutrition Study.

NicaraguaAn agronomist talking to farm workers about placing cones containing microscopic trichogramma wasps in cotton fields. Trichohramma, a natural enemy of the bollworm, lays its eggs inside the bollworm e...

NicaraguaAn extensionist pointing out the level of fertilizer application on a trial plot at a demonstration farm. - - Agriculture Development.

Central African RepublicPeul herdsman tending sick cattle. Through the project, he has learned how to give injections to his livestock. - - Audio-visual Training in Animal Health Care and Pasture Management: TCP/CAF/6753. Th...

EthiopiaIn this region, well-known for small-scale sheep breeding, the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) encourages farmers to diversify their activities so as not to be entirely dependent on croppin...

EthiopiaA farmer and his sons in a vegetable garden that he has planted on shallow soil. - - General: General. An FAO project, implemented through RRC (the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission) with aid from...

IndiaA woman farmer laboriously bundles a bountiful winter wheat crop by hand. Wheat is the staple crop of Northern India and production has considerably increased with the introduction of high-yielding va...

IndiaWorkers harvest carp raised in the main stock pond. The Institute is raising Indian carp: Catla, Rohu and Mrigal; and Chinese carp: Silver, Grass and Common. - - Inland Aquaculture Research. The Food...

IndiaWorkers sample two-year-old brood stock from an Institute rearing pond. The hybrids, from various combinations of Indian Catla, Rohu, and Mrigal carp and Chinese Common Silver and Grass carp, are rais...

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...

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...

PeruA farmer harvesting rice in Moyobamba Province in the region of San Martin. The Peruvian government is promoting settlement and rural development in the region by a variety of means, including loans t...

AlgeriaShepherd with his flock of sheep on the p1ains which are part of the WFP assisted Boulhilet farm - the rura1 development centre, 70 km. south of Constantine. - - Reforestation and Rural Development. T...

YemenFarm boys ho1d a sugar beet weighing 3.5 kg. which was grown on the experimenta1 farm south of Taiz and which wi11 be used as fodder. The growing of sugar beet was introduced by UN vo1unteers. - - UN...