NIGERIANigeria, 1961 - Two Dutch experts, Mr Melle Zwankuizen and Mr. Gustaaf Baumer, were recently in Nigeria on a technical assignment to improve the processing and use of cassava and other crops. Mr. Baum...

NIGERIANigeria, 1961 - Two Dutch experts, Mr Melle Zwankuizen and Mr. Gustaaf Baumer, were recently in Nigeria on a technical assignment to improve the processing and use of cassava and other crops. Mr. Baum...

NIGERIANigeria, 1961 - Two Dutch experts, Mr Melle Zwankuizen and Mr. Gustaaf Baumer, were recently in Nigeria on a technical assignment to improve the processing and use of cassava and other crops. Mr. Baum...

NIGERIANigeria, 1961 - Two Dutch experts, Mr Melle Zwankuizen and Mr. Gustaaf Baumer, were recently in Nigeria on a technical assignment to improve the processing and use of cassava and other crops. Mr. Baum...

NIGERIANigeria, 1961 - Two Dutch experts, Mr Melle Zwankuizen and Mr. Gustaaf Baumer, were recently in Nigeria on a technical assignment to improve the processing and use of cassava and other crops. Mr. Baum...

NIGERIANigeria, 1961 - Two Dutch experts, Mr Melle Zwankuizen and Mr. Gustaaf Baumer, were recently in Nigeria on a technical assignment to improve the processing and use of cassava and other crops. Mr. Baum...

TURKEYTurkey, October 1967. Unweaned mice are essential in foot_and_mouth disease investigation. They are very sensitive to the virus and they are used to test for its presence in material taken from sus...

GreeceGrèce, Septembre 1964. La chaîne du Taygetos vers Sparte. Scierie d'Artemisia (pin et sapin). Le dæcopy;veloppement regional est un des æcopy;læcopy;ments majeurs du plan national grec. C'est au...

PhilippinesPhilippines, August 1961 - The Government of the Philippines, duly alarmed at the great number of schistosomiasis victims among its citizens, established the Schistosomiasis Control Pilot Project (SCP...

PhilippinesPhilippines, August 1961 - Here, a WHO-sponsored chemist Nita Escano is seen compounding a new molluscicide. The Government of the Philippines, duly alarmed at the great number of schistosomiasis...

PhilippinesPhilippines, August 1961 - Here is a mother and child, both suffering from an advanced stage of schistosomiasis. The Government of the Philippines, duly alarmed at the great number of schistosomia...

PhilippinesPhilippines, August 1961 - Here, laboratory technicians are seen performing recovery of flukes from field rats to determine the rate of procreativity of the parasite after being injected a few hours b...

PhilippinesPhilippines, August 1961 - Dr. Pitilla of the SCPP, examining patients suffering from schistosomiasis. The Government of the Philippines, duly alarmed at the great number of schistosomiasis victim...

PhilippinesPhilippines, August 1961 - Dr. Trinidad P. Pesigan, Director of the SCPP, is seen here explaining the life cycle of a snail parasite to some medical students. The Government of the Philippines, du...

PhilippinesPhilippines, August 1961 - The examination of stool for ova of Schistosoma and other parasites being performed by a laboratory technician. The Government of the Philippines, duly alarmed at the gr...

PhilippinesPhilippines, August 1961 - SCPP laboratory technicians are seen here experimenting on the potency of a new molluscicide prepared in their chemical department. The Government of the Philippines, du...

PhilippinesPhilippines, August 1961 - The examination of liver tissue of a field rat by the use of Waringblender method being performed by a laboratory technician. The Government of the Philippines, duly ala...

PhilippinesPhilippines, August 1961 - Here is a victim suffering from advanced stage of schistosomiasis. The Government of the Philippines, duly alarmed at the great number of schistosomiasis victims among i...

EL SALVADOREl Salvador, 1961 - A view of the drilling operation near Usulutan. FAO drilling superintendent John Ramsay (UK) is seen at right. Doubling of agricultural production and the growing of food crops ove...

EL SALVADOREl Salvador, 1961 - A view of the drilling operation near Usulutan. FAO drilling superintendent John Ramsay (UK) is seen at right. Doubling of agricultural production and the growing of food crops ove...

AFRICAETHIOPIA - ENORMOUS GRANARY POTENTIALAddis Ababa, June 1964. It is claimed that Ethiopia could be the granary of the Middle East and of Africa and supply over one hundred million people with food and...

United States of America08 December 1961, United Nations, New York, USA - Plan for Establishment of World Food Program by UN and FAO Outlined to Economic Committee. A plan for provision of food surpluses to food-deficient pe...

ITALYNovember 1959, Rome, Italy - Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO Conference designates 1961 as the "World Seed Year".

ITALYNovember 1959, Rome, Italy - Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO Conference designates 1961 as the "World Seed Year".

ITALYNovember 1959, Rome, Italy - Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO Conference designates 1961 as the "World Seed Year".

1961, Rome, Italy - John D. Rockefeller III, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, presending the second McDougall lecture at FAO headquarters in Rome.

ITALY1961, Rome, Italy - John D. Rockefeller III, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, presending the second McDougall lecture at FAO headquarters in Rome.

EGYPTBilbeis, Egypt, 1961 - Oranges are wrapped and placed in the cases. Mr. W. Lumholtz (Denmark), FAO marketing expert has been assisting in the running of a modern citrus packaging house at Bilbeis sinc...

United States of America20 Feburary 1961, Washington, DC (USA) - Director-General B.R. Sen (seated left) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations meets with Food for Peace Director George McGovern (seat...

BrazilA fisherman stands in a pirogue with his catch of "surubi" (a river fish of the Siluroidea suborder) before taking it to market. - - Integrated Rural Development of Islands in the Sâ%o Francisco River...

BrazilA subsistence farmer who cultivates beans and maize on llha de Paratinga, a small island of the Sâ%o Francisco river. Maize stalks in the background grow on the edge of a lagoon created inside the sma...

BrazilChildren of Barro, a riverside hamlet near Paratiga. - - Integrated Rural Development of Islands in the Sâ%o Francisco River. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. (FAO) is helping the Gov...

SenegalA Peul woman of the Ferlo region. - - Haymaking and cattle feeding.. Peuls are semi-nomadic pastoralists in the north of Senegal. They depend mainly on stock rearing for their economy, but the harsh c...

SenegalWorking on an underground irrigation channel near the pilot village of Dusadj. - - Haymaking and cattle feeding.. Peuls are semi-nomadic pastoralists in the north of Senegal. They depend mainly on sto...

SudanLoading up a hay-cart supplied through FAO/FFH. The hay will serve as cattle feed during the dry season when there is insufficient pasture feeding. - - Haymaking and cattle feeding.. Peuls are semi-no...

SudanAfter the hay is mown it is raked into bundles in readiness for the hay-cart. - - Haymaking and cattle feeding.. Peuls are semi-nomadic pastoralists in the north of Senegal. They depend mainly on stoc...

SenegalA little girl eating a millet kuskus. - - Haymaking and cattle feeding.. Peuls are semi-nomadic pastoralists in the north of Senegal. They depend mainly on stock rearing for their economy, but the har...