Somalia21 January 2021, Baidoa, Somalia - Jamila Ibrahim Abshir prepares food in her home in Haween village. QUOTE: "I am 50 years old, and I've been working as a farmer my whole life. When we start plan...

Kenya02 November 2021, Kolewa, Kenya - Agnes Chisiwa, 40, gets water from a well at her farm.

YEMEN30 September 2019, Yemen - Rashed Abdullah farming again thanks to solar-powered wells provided by a FAO-EU project in Yemen. Water scarcity poses a significant constraint to food production and livel...

YEMEN30 September 2019, Yemen - Rashed Abdullah farming again thanks to solar-powered wells provided by a FAO-EU project in Yemen. Water scarcity poses a significant constraint to food production and livel...

YEMEN30 September 2019, Yemen - Solar-powered wells provided by a FAO-EU project in Yemen. Water scarcity poses a significant constraint to food production and livelihoods in Yemen where close to 70 percen...

YEMEN30 September 2019, Yemen - Solar-powered wells provided by a FAO-EU project in Yemen providing water for farming. Water scarcity poses a significant constraint to food production and livelihoods in Y...

YEMEN30 September 2019, Yemen - Solar-powered wells provided by a FAO-EU project in Yemen providing water for farming. Water scarcity poses a significant constraint to food production and livelihoods in Y...

YEMEN30 September 2019, Yemen - Solar-powered wells provided by a FAO-EU project in Yemen providing water for farming. Water scarcity poses a significant constraint to food production and livelihoods in Y...

YEMEN30 September 2019, Yemen - Solar-powered wells provided by a FAO-EU project in Yemen. Water scarcity poses a significant constraint to food production and livelihoods in Yemen where close to 70 percen...

YEMEN30 September 2019, Yemen - Solar-powered wells provided by a FAO-EU project in Yemen. Water scarcity poses a significant constraint to food production and livelihoods in Yemen where close to 70 percen...

YEMEN30 September 2019, Yemen - Rashed Abdullah selling his harvest after farming again thanks to solar-powered wells provided by a FAO-EU project in Yemen. Water scarcity poses a significant constraint to...

YEMEN30 September 2019, Yemen - Rashed Abdullah carrying vegetables to a market after farming again thanks to solar-powered wells provided by a FAO-EU project in Yemen. Water scarcity poses a significant c...

YEMEN30 September 2019, Yemen - A farmer farming again thanks to solar-powered wells provided by a FAO-EU project in Yemen. Water scarcity poses a significant constraint to food production and livelihoods...

YEMEN30 September 2019, Yemen - Rashed Abdullah farming again thanks to solar-powered wells provided by a FAO-EU project in Yemen. Water scarcity poses a significant constraint to food production and livel...

12 June 2010, Higo village - Cattle farmers watering their herd at the hand dug well under renovation by the community. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communitie...

NIGER29 June 2017, Gafati, Niger -Locals fetching water in Gafati from the community well. Gafati in the Zinder region of Niger is one of the communities ASTF has supported in implementing the 3N "Niger f...

NIGER29 June 2017, Gafati, Niger - Locals fetching water in Gafati from the community well. Gafati in the Zinder region of Niger is one of the communities ASTF has supported in implementing the 3N "N...

NIGER29 June 2017, Gafati, Niger -Locals fetching water in Gafati from the community well. Gafati in the Zinder region of Niger is one of the communities ASTF has supported in implementing the 3N "Niger f...

NIGER29 June 2017, Gafati, Niger - Locals fetching water in Gafati from the community well. Gafati in the Zinder region of Niger is one of the communities ASTF has supported in implementing the 3N "N...

NIGER29 June 2017, Gafati, Niger -Locals fetching water in Gafati from the community well. Gafati in the Zinder region of Niger is one of the communities ASTF has supported in implementing the 3N "Niger f...

NIGER29 June 2017, Gafati, Niger - Locals fetching water in Gafati from the community well. Gafati in the Zinder region of Niger is one of the communities ASTF has supported in implementing the 3N "N...

ITALY05 July 2017, Rome, Italy - Statement by The Honourable Renward Wells, Minister for Agriculture and Marine Resources of the Bahamas. FAO Conference, 40th Session, 3-8 July 2017, FAO headquarters (Plen...

ITALY04 July 2017, Rome, Italy - Renward Wells, Minister of Agricolture of Bahamas. Side event: Launch of the Global Action Programme on Food Security and Nutrition in Small Island Developing States. FAO C...

INDIARURAL YOUTH CLUBS, UDAIPUR UNIVERSITY, Rajasthan, India, 1973. Rural youth organizers from the Extension Department of Udaipur University are working enthusiastically in many villages throughout R...

INDIARURAL YOUTH CLUBS, UDAIPUR UNIVERSITY, Rajasthan, India, 1973. Rural youth organizers from the Extension Department of Udaipur University are working enthusiastically in many villages throughout R...

INDIARURAL YOUTH CLUBS, UDAIPUR UNIVERSITY, Rajasthan, India, 1973. Rural youth organizers from the Extension Department of Udaipur University are working enthusiastically in many villages throughout R...

INDIARURAL YOUTH CLUBS, UDAIPUR UNIVERSITY, Rajasthan, India, 1973. Rural youth organizers from the Extension Department of Udaipur University are working enthusiastically in many villages throughout R...

AFRICAUpper Volta, 1973 - Carcasses of cattle and goats at Christine Wells in northern Upper Volta. Lead caption: Five years of subnormal rainfall has brought severe drought and tragedy to Upper Vol...

AFRICAUpper Volta, 1973 - Carcasses of Mali nomads' cattle lie on the edge of Christine Wells in northern Upper Volta. The animals died after drinking water on empty stomachs following their long trek from...

NIGER24 February 2013, Dogondoutchi, Niger - Villagers harvesting water from a well to water crops. FAO-EU Project GCP/NER/047/MUL: Intensifying Agriculture by Strengthening Cooperative Input Shops (IARBI...

GAMBIA27 April 2012, Essau, Gambia - A local farmer woman (part of the Marang-Tenda KAFO group) and FAO project beneficiary, getting water from a well to irrigate an onion crop. FAO Project: GTFS/GAM/025/I...

GAMBIA25 April 2012, Njawara, Gambia - A woman pumping water from a well. FAO Project: GTFS/GAM/025/ITA - National Programme Food Security in The Gambia. Project Objective: Agricultural productivity, marke...

SRI LANKA09 October 2005, Pottuwil, Sri Lanka - Farmers at a nursery taking water from a well to irrigate a crop of seedlings started from seed distributed by FAO. FAO has distributed rice seeds and fertilizer...

SRI LANKA09 October 2005, Pottuwil, Sri Lanka - A farmer taking water from a well at a nursery to irrigate a crop of seedlings started from seed distributed by FAO. FAO has distributed rice seeds and fertilize...

SRI LANKA09 October 2005, Pottuwil, Sri Lanka - A farmer taking water from a well at a nursery to irrigate a crop of seedlings started from seed distributed by FAO. FAO has distributed rice seeds and fertilize...

SRI LANKA09 October 2005, Pottuwil, Sri Lanka - A farmer taking water from a well at a nursery to irrigate a crop of seedlings started from seed distributed by FAO. FAO has distributed rice seeds and fertilize...

INDIA25 November 2011, Madanapalle, India - A Groundwater Systems Project meeting with local farmers on Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM). The PHM portion of the project has been a strategy adopt...

INDIA25 November 2011, Madanapalle, India - A Groundwater Systems Project coordinator at a meeting with local farmers on Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM). The PHM portion of the project has bee...

INDIA25 November 2011, Madanapalle, India - A Groundwater Systems Project meeting with local farmers on Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM). The PHM portion of the project has been a strategy adopt...

INDIA25 November 2011, Madanapalle, India - A Groundwater Systems Project meeting with local farmers on Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM). The PHM portion of the project has been a strategy adopt...

INDIA25 November 2011, Madanapalle, India - A beneficiary of the Managed Groundwater Systems Project trained in water level monitoring approaching an observation well to check water levels and maintain a r...

INDIA25 November 2011, Madanapalle, India - Water level monitoring being carried out at an observation well to maintain a record of well characteristics. This is undertaken by a Hydrological Unit Network (...

INDIA25 November 2011, Madanapalle, India - A Groundwater Systems Project meeting with local farmers on Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM). The PHM portion of the project has been a strategy adopt...

INDIA25 November 2011, Madanapalle, India - A Groundwater Systems Project coordinator standing in a rice paddy. The Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM) portion of the project has been a strategy a...

INDIA25 November 2011, Madanapalle, India - A Groundwater Systems Project meeting with local farmers on Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM). The PHM portion of the project has been a strategy adopt...

INDIA25 November 2011, Madanapalle, India - Water level monitoring being carried out at an observation well to maintain a record of well characteristics. This is undertaken by a Hydrological Unit Network (...

INDIA23 November 2011, Guthi, India - A farmer and beneficiary of the Groundwater Systems Project and the Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM) measuring rainfall levels in one of 190 rain gauge stat...

INDIA22 November 2011, Miryalaguda, India - Farmers and beneficiaries of the Groundwater Systems Project discussing the Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM). The PHM portion of the project has been...

INDIA23 November 2011, Guthi, India - A Farmer Water School (FWS) convening. The FWS approach helps prepare farmers to take charge of managing their ground water. FWS is an adaptation of the Farmer Field S...

INDIA22 November 2011, Miryalaguda, India - A farmer and beneficiary of the Groundwater Systems Project discussing the Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM). The PHM portion of the project has been a...

INDIA22 November 2011, Miryalaguda, India - A farmer and beneficiary of the Groundwater Systems Project discussing the Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM). The PHM portion of the project has been a...

INDIA23 November 2011, Guthi, India - Farmers and project beneficiaries carrying out a discharge measurement of water from a bore well. Discharge measurements are carried out by trained farmers in over 700...

INDIA23 November 2011, Guthi, India - Farmers and project beneficiaries carrying out a discharge measurement of water from a bore well. Discharge measurements are carried out by trained farmers in over 700...

INDIA23 November 2011, Guthi, India - Water level monitoring being carried out at an observation well to maintain a record of well characteristics. This is undertaken by a Hydrological Unit Network (HUN) w...

INDIA22 November 2011, Miryalaguda, India - Farmers and beneficiaries of the Groundwater Systems Project discussing the Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM). The PHM portion of the project has been...

INDIA23 November 2011, Guthi, India - Water level monitoring being carried out at an observation well to maintain a record of well characteristics. This is undertaken by a Hydrological Unit Network (HUN) w...

INDIA23 November 2011, Guthi, India - Farmers and project beneficiaries carrying out a discharge measurement of water from a bore well. Discharge measurements are carried out by trained farmers in over 700...

INDIA22 November 2011, Miryalaguda, India - Farmers and beneficiaries of the Groundwater Systems Project and the Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM) measuring rainfall levels in one of 190 rain gau...

INDIA22 November 2011, Miryalaguda, India - A farmer and beneficiary of the Groundwater Systems Project and the Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM) showing a handful of harvested cotton. The PHM po...

INDIA22 November 2011, Miryalaguda, India - Farmers and beneficiaries of the Groundwater Systems Project and the Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM) measuring rainfall levels in one of 190 rain gau...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye, Senegal - 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 gar...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - A woman 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 t...

SENEGAL17 May 2010, Thiaye - A woman 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 t...

KENYA12 May 2005, Arba Geramso - A woman collecting water from a well. Most pastoralists lost nearly 90 percent of their animals in the ongoing drought and 80 percent of the population relies on food aid f...

INDONESIA15 February 2005, Banada Aceh - Daily life at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP).

Democratic Republic of the Congo29 June 2011, Lubumbashi - Teenage boys digging to deepen a well used to water vegetable fields in the Kisale neighborhood of Lubumbashi.

MAURITANIA24 October 2002, Atar - Nomad women of the Maur ethnic group drawing water from a well during a sandstorm.

NIGER07 November 2007, Kara - A water well.

MAURITANIA28 July 2004, Kaedi - Daily life around a local village water well.

TOGO12 April 2011, Nansongue - A man drawing a bucket of water from a well to water a crop of tomatoes. FAO Project GCP/TOG/016/EC - Reinforcement of food security bases for vulnerable households in To...

TOGO12 April 2011, Nansongue - A woman drawing a bucket of water from a well to water a crop of tomatoes. FAO Project GCP/TOG/016/EC - Reinforcement of food security bases for vulnerable households in...

TOGO12 April 2011, Nansongue - A man watering a crop of tomatoes. FAO Project GCP/TOG/016/EC - Reinforcement of food security bases for vulnerable households in Togo. Objective: to contribute to the re...

TOGO12 April 2011, Nansongue- A man drawing a bucket of water from a well to water a crop of tomatoes. FAO Project GCP/TOG/016/EC - Reinforcement of food security bases for vulnerable households in Tog...

TOGO12 April 2011, Nansongue - A woman drawing a bucket of water from a well to water a crop of tomatoes. FAO Project GCP/TOG/016/EC - Reinforcement of food security bases for vulnerable households in...

TOGO12 April 2011, Nansongue - A woman working in a tomato field. FAO Project GCP/TOG/016/EC - Reinforcement of food security bases for vulnerable households in Togo. Objective: to contribute to the re...

TOGO12 April 2011, Dapaong - A woman working in a tomato field. FAO Project GCP/TOG/016/EC - Reinforcement of food security bases for vulnerable households in Togo. Objective: to contribute to the reinfo...

PAKISTAN21 August 2010, Multan - A young boy drinking from a water pump.

PAKISTAN25 August 2010, Dera Ghazi Khan - A farmer harvesting water from a communal water pump.

VIET NAM26 May 2010, Mu Rieng Hamlet - A Muong ethnic farmer drawing water from a well.

BURKINA FASO14 March 2011, Ouagadougou - Bulgarian football star Hristo Stoitchkov drawing water from a well for irrigation of a crop in an effort to show his support and bring attention to the EU and FAO's effor...

BURKINA FASO14 March 2011, Ouagadougou - Bulgarian football star Hristo Stoitchkov drawing water from a well for irrigation of a crop in an effort to show his support and bring attention to the EU and FAO's effor...

WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP20 December 2010, Zanuta - A Palestinia farmer harvesting water from a well for his livestock. FAO Project: OSRO/GAZ/003/CAN - Protection of livelihoods of small ruminant herders and promotion of bet...

Haiti12 June 2006. La Branle - Children collecting water at a community well. FAO Project OSRO/HAI/502/EC - Reconstruction of irrigated farmlands on the outskirts of Dubédou and Bassin Magnan and reinforc...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Men collecting water in a hand dug well renovated with the help of an FAO project. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communities as...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - A cattle farmer watering his herd at the hand dug well under renovation by the community. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communit...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - A man collecting water from a hand dug well that is being renovated by the community. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communities as...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Community members renovating a hand dug well while cattle drink from it. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communities as a drought mi...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Cattle farmers watering their herd at the hand dug well under renovation by the community. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communiti...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - A man collecting water from a hand dug well that is being renovated by the community. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communities as...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - A man collecting water from a hand dug well that is being renovated by the community. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communities as...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Men collecting water in a hand dug well renovated with the help of an FAO project. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communities as a...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Cattle farmers watering their herd at the hand dug well under renovation by the community. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communiti...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Men collecting water in a hand dug well renovated with the help of an FAO project. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communities as a...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Men collecting water in a hand dug well renovated with the help of an FAO project. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communities as a...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Cattle farmers watering their herd at the hand dug well under renovation by the community. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communiti...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Cattle farmers watering their herd at the hand dug well under renovation by the community. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communiti...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Men collecting water in a hand dug well renovated with the help of an FAO project. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communities as a...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Men collecting water in a hand dug well renovated with the help of an FAO project. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communities as a...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Cattle farmers watering their herd at the hand dug well under renovation by the community. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communiti...

Ethiopia12 June 2010, Higo village - Men collecting water in a hand dug well renovated with the help of an FAO project. FAO-EU Project: OSRO/RAF/606/NET - Immediate support to agro-pastoral communities as a...