SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Butane gas is available for cooking in Dakar - for those who can afford it. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the government in carrying out sand dune fixati...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Poles cut from local trees are assembled for river transport. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the government in carrying out sand dune fixation measures th...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Sand dune (foreground) which has been stabilized, is now protecting an agricultural area that was previously threatened. The aim of this FAO project is to assist th...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Woman in vegetable garden picking chili peppers. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the government in carrying out sand dune fixation measures through affores...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Traditional way of cooking which is wasteful use of precious fuel. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the government in carrying out sand dune fixation measur...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Woman buying from a fuelwood merchant. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the government in carrying out sand dune fixation measures through afforestation, to...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Woman using improved fuel saving stove. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the government in carrying out sand dune fixation measures through afforestation, t...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Dune fixation with hardy eucalyptus trees. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the government in carrying out sand dune fixation measures through afforestation...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Woman preparing to carry her bundle of collected firewood. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the government in carrying out sand dune fixation measures throu...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Camel chewing at Acacia tree. Uncontrolled grazing may eventually destroy the tree. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the government in carrying out sand dun...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Livestock owners destroy trees by indiscriminately lopping branches off them to provide leaf fodder for their animals. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Vegetable gardens in an area previously threatened by advancing dunes (background) and now protected with trees. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the govern...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Eucalyptus plantation. These evergreen trees have many uses ranging from sand dune fixation to the provision of fodder and building poles. The aim of this FAO proje...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - These tree seedlings in a forest nursery will be transplanted and used in dune fixation. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the government in carrying out san...

SENEGALSAND DUNE FIXATION, Senegal, 1985 - Plantation of Neem trees (Azadirachta Indica). This tree is highly recommended by foresters for arid zones. The aim of this FAO project is to assist the government...

REPUBLIC OF KOREASOIL SURVEY PROJECT. Republic of Korea, December 1968. Basic information for land development and improvement in Korea is being provided by this United Nations Development Programme-Special Fund/F...

REPUBLIC OF KOREASOIL SURVEY PROJECT. Republic of Korea, December 1968. Basic information for land development and improvement in Korea is being provided by this United Nations Development Programme-Special Fund/F...

Italy25 January 2017, Rome, Italy - Plenary Session 6: Mitigation options in agricolture and other land uses: Synergies and trade-offs to food security. Mitigation options through afforestation and sustain...

Italy24 January 2017, Rome, Italy - Plenary Session 6: Mitigation options in agriculture and other land uses: Synergies and trade-offs to food security. Mitigation options through afforestation and sustain...

Italy25 January 2017, Rome, Italy - Plenary Session 6: Mitigation options in agricolture and other land uses: Synergies and trade-offs to food security. Mitigation options through afforestation and sustain...

Italy24 January 2017, Rome, Italy - Plenary Session 6: Mitigation options in agriculture and other land uses: Synergies and trade-offs to food security. Mitigation options through afforestation and sustain...

Italy25 January 2017, Rome, Italy - Plenary Session 6: Mitigation options in agricolture and other land uses: Synergies and trade-offs to food security. Mitigation options through afforestation and sustain...

PERUCOMMUNITY FORESTRYAND AFFORESTATION: Peru?, August 1985 The Andean region consumes 3 million tonnes of wood per year, most of it indiscriminately cut by 5 miilion rural poor who need fuelwood and h...

LIBYANear Tripoli, Libya 1953. Following the declaration of independence of Libya, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) sent to that country a large mission of experts in agric...

CHINAAgri-Forestry and soil conservation: China, 1981. In 1949, China's forests covered a mere 5% of its total land area. Through diligentt afforestation efforts, this cover was increased to 12.7% by 1978....

United Republic of Tanzania2 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - The stump of a felled tree. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable Development, Land u...

United Republic of Tanzania30 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Women selling fruits and vegetables under the shade of a tree shade. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contrib...

United Republic of Tanzania1 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Farmers preparing a field before carrying out a controlled burn. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contributi...

United Republic of Tanzania1 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - A farmer preparing a field before carrying out a controlled burn. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribut...

United Republic of Tanzania1 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Beekeepers harvesting honeycomb from a hive. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable De...

United Republic of Tanzania1 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - A controlled burn by local farmers. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable Development...

United Republic of Tanzania30 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - A woman cooking outside her home. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable Development, L...

United Republic of Tanzania1 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Beekeepers harvesting honeycomb from a hive. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable De...

United Republic of Tanzania1 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Beekeepers harvesting honeycomb from a hive. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable De...

United Republic of Tanzania31 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Local agro-forestry farmers tending to the crops. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainabl...

United Republic of Tanzania31 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - An agro-forestry farmer clearing brush and dead leaves from the farm. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contri...

United Republic of Tanzania30 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - A woman walking home through the brush. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable Developm...

United Republic of Tanzania31 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Men cutting down a tree for timber. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable Development,...

United Republic of Tanzania1 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - A controlled burn by local farmers. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable Development...

United Republic of Tanzania31 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Men cutting down a tree for timber. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable Development,...

United Republic of Tanzania1 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - A beekeeper harvesting honeycomb from a hive. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable D...

United Republic of Tanzania31 July 2012 Kigoma, Tanzania - Villagers creating fire breaks surrounding crops and villages. Fire breaks are gaps in vegetation and other combustible materials to lower the risk of fires spreading....

United Republic of Tanzania31 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Men cutting down a tree for timber. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable Development,...

United Republic of Tanzania31 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Men cutting down a tree for timber. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable Development,...

United Republic of Tanzania30 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - A woman cooking outside her home. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable Development, L...

United Republic of Tanzania30 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Children playing amongst fishing boats on the shores surrounding a well maintained forest reserve. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Manage...

United Republic of Tanzania31 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - A farmer preparing a log to be cut for timber. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable D...

United Republic of Tanzania1 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Villagers performing a controlled burn of tall grass. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Susta...

United Republic of Tanzania30 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Women cleaning fish for sale on the shore. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Sustainable Devel...

United Republic of Tanzania1 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Villagers performing a controlled burn of tall grass. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Susta...

United Republic of Tanzania30 July 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Women selling fruits and vegetables under the shade of a tree shade. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contrib...

United Republic of Tanzania2 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Elderly women carrrying firewood back to their homes. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Susta...

United Republic of Tanzania2 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Elderly women carrrying firewood back to their homes. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contribution to Susta...

United Republic of Tanzania1 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Farmers preparing a field before carrying out a controlled burn. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contributi...

United Republic of Tanzania1 August 2012, Kigoma, Tanzania - Farmers preparing a field before carrying out a controlled burn. FAO Project GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and Enhancing its Contributi...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A farmer tilling the land before planting acacia seedlings as part of an afforestion effort. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A farmer carrying acacia tree seedlings to the forest for planting as part of an afforestion effort. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery befor...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A worker weeding an Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it ta...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A farmer tilling the land before planting acacia seedlings as part of an afforestion effort. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A worker weeding an Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it ta...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A farmer tilling the land before planting acacia seedlings as part of an afforestion effort. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A worker weeding an Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it ta...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A worker weeding an Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it ta...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A farmer planting an acacia seedling as part of an afforestion effort. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in t...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A worker weeding an Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it ta...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A farmer and his son tilling the land before planting acacia seedlings as part of an afforestion effort. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery b...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A worker weeding an Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it ta...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A farmer planting an acacia seedling as part of an afforestion effort. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in t...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A worker weeding an Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it ta...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A farmer planting an acacia seedling as part of an afforestion effort. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in t...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A worker weeding an Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it ta...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - An Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it takes five years be...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A farmer planting an acacia seedling as part of an afforestion effort. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in t...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A farmer planting an acacia seedling as part of an afforestion effort. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in t...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A worker watering seedlings at an Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - An acacia tree forest. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it takes five years bef...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - An Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it takes five years be...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - An acacia tree forest. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it takes five years bef...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - Workers at an Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it takes fi...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - A worker watering seedlings at an Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - An Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it takes five years be...

VIET NAM19 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - Workers at an Acacia tree nursery. Acacia seedlings are grown within six months in the nursery before being sold for planting in the forest. Once planted, it takes fi...

VIET NAM18 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - Land that has been burned, ensuring land fertility, for planting of a forest during the rainy season for timber production. This is part of the sustainable forest man...

VIET NAM18 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - Farmers tilling the land after it has been burned, ensuring land fertility, for planting of a forest during the rainy season for timber production. This is part of th...

VIET NAM18 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - Farmers tilling the land after it has been burned, ensuring land fertility, for planting of a forest during the rainy season for timber production. This is part of th...

VIET NAM18 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - Farmers tilling the land after it has been burned, ensuring land fertility, for planting of a forest during the rainy season for timber production. This is part of th...

VIET NAM18 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - Land that has been burned, ensuring land fertility, for planting of a forest during the rainy season for timber production. This is part of the sustainable forest man...

VIET NAM18 May 2012, Back Kan, Viet Nam - Land that has been burned, ensuring land fertility, for planting of a forest during the rainy season for timber production. This is part of the sustainable forest man...

ITALY16 May 2012, Rome - Eduardo Mansur, Director Forest Assessment, Management and Conservation division. Presentation of the Lebanon National Afforestation and Reforestation Plan, FAO headquarters (Leban...

ITALY16 May 2012, Rome - (from L to R) Karim Khalil, Chargè d'Affaires Alternate Representative to FAO, Laurent Thomas, Assistant Director-General, Technical Cooperation Department, Hussein Hajj-Hassan, Mi...

ITALY16 May 2012, Rome - Hussein Hajj-Hassan, Minister for Agriculture of Lebanon. Presentation of the Lebanon National Afforestation and Reforestation Plan, FAO headquarters (Lebanon Room).

ITALY16 May 2012, Rome - Presentation of the Lebanon National Afforestation and Reforestation Plan, FAO headquarters (Lebanon Room).

ITALY16 May 2012, Rome - Laurent Thomas, Assistant Director-General, Technical Cooperation Department, left, Hussein Hajj-Hassan, Minister for Agriculture of Lebanon. Presentation of the Lebanon National...

ITALY16 May 2012, Rome - (from L to R) Karim Khalil, Chargè d'Affaires Alternate Representative to FAO, Laurent Thomas, Assistant Director-General, Technical Cooperation Department, Hussein Hajj-Hassan, Mi...

ITALY16 May 2012, Rome - (from L to R) Karim Khalil, Chargè d'Affaires Alternate Representative to FAO, Laurent Thomas, Assistant Director-General, Technical Cooperation Department, Hussein Hajj-Hassan, Mi...

ITALY16 May 2012, Rome - Hussein Hajj-Hassan, Minister for Agriculture of Lebanon, left, Eduardo Mansur, Director Forest Assessment, Management and Conservation division. Presentation of the Lebanon Nation...

ITALY16 May 2012, Rome - Hussein Hajj-Hassan, Minister for Agriculture of Lebanon. Presentation of the Lebanon National Afforestation and Reforestation Plan, FAO headquarters (Lebanon Room).

United Republic of Tanzania30 March 2012, Morogoro, Tanzania - An FAO film crew taking video footage of the lab at Sokoine University of Agriculture. FAO Project: GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Management and...

United Republic of Tanzania27 March 2012, Moshi, Tanzania - Forest rangers taking measurements of a tree at Megeni Kitasha in the Rombo District in Moshi. FAO Project: GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Forest Resources Managemen...

United Republic of Tanzania30 March 2012, Morogoro, Tanzania - A lab technician testing and registering data collected on soil samples at the Sokoine University of Agriculture. FAO Project: GCP/GLO/194/MUL - Strengthening Fore...