AFRICAEthiopia, 1980 - Peasant woman cooking with precious firewood in her hut. The forests of Ethiopia are being stripped for cooking fuel.

AFRICAEthiopia, 1980 - An extension agent for soil conservation talking to members of a Peasant's Association. The meeting is to organize tree-planting on communal land that is overgrazed and degraded.

AFRICAEthiopia, 1980 - Shifting cultivator axing tree for firewood.

THAILANDThailand, 1979 - FAO expert in Soil Conservation, Ted Cheng hoeing in pilot demonstration area, Mai Sa. Lead caption: The great forests of Thailand are being rapidly destroyed by people desperatel...

THAILANDThailand, 1979 - Extension agent of the Royal Forestry Department teaching hill farmers about terracing as a soil conservation measure. Lead caption: The great forests of Thailand are being rapidly...

SenegalSeedlings being planted in an arid area for dune fixation. These activities form part of the rural forestry development project in the fight against desertification. - - Support to Rural Forestry Deve...

EgyptForestation activities: nursery worker tending trees that have been planted in desert lands irrigated by recycled sewage water. - - Preparation of a National Tree Planting and Development of Peri-Urba...

EgyptDesert land that has been irrigated by recycled sewage water and planted with seedlings. - - Preparation of a National Tree Planting and Development of Peri-Urban Forestry Plan: TCP/EGY/7821(A). The P...

EgyptRows of trees planted along the banks of irrigation and drainage canals. The trees will be used for sand dune fixation and to combat desertification. - - Preparation of a National Tree Planting and De...

EgyptNursery worker inspecting rows of cypress and Senegalese mahogany trees that have been planted for environmental purposes and wood production. - - Preparation of a National Tree Planting and Developme...

EgyptWorker tending seedlings in the greenhouse of the main government nursery in Luxor. The trees will be used for different purposes: promoting the establishment of forests in arid areas and for sand dun...

EgyptNursery worker tends tree seedlings planted outside the main government nursery in Luxor. The trees will be used for different purposes: promoting the establishment of forests in arid areas and for sa...

EgyptDevelopment of afforestation activities in desert land irrigated by treated sewage water and ground water. - - Preparation of a National Tree Planting and Development of Peri-Urban Forestry Plan: TCP/...

EgyptMulberry trees (Morus alba L.) that have been planted on desert land irrigated by treated sewage water. These trees are used for silk worm production and also serve as windbreaks. - - Preparation of a...

EgyptView of a water management plant and sewage water treatment station that filters underground and treated sewage water. A sluice gate directs water to an irrigation canal and stones are used to filter...

EgyptNursery worker tending Senegalese mahogany tree seedlings in a nursery of the pilot demonstration plantation. - - Preparation of a National Tree Planting and Development of Peri-Urban Forestry Plan: T...

EgyptPlanting Senegalese mahogany trees on the banks of irrigation and drainage canals. The trees will be used for sand dune fixation and for combating desertification. - - Preparation of a National Tree P...

EgyptRows of trees planted on the banks of irrigation and drainage canals. The trees will be used for sand dune fixation and for combating desertification. - - Preparation of a National Tree Planting and D...

EgyptNursery worker adjusting sprinkler irrigation system in a greenhouse of cypress seedlings. - - Preparation of a National Tree Planting and Development of Peri-Urban Forestry Plan: TCP/EGY/7821(A). The...

MexicoFarmers are building a rural house. - - General: General. Acute rural poverty is wide spread in the mountainous State of Oxaca in the south-centre of Mexico. The Ministry of Agriculture and Water Reso...

MexicoPlanting coffee beans in a coffee nursery that is being helped by a project effort to rehabilitate the rural coffee industry. - - General: General. Acute rural poverty is wide spread in the mountainou...

PeruAn extension agent explains how to make slow-forming terraces, which require deep topsoil and consist of a series of walls built across the slope and heightening as they begin to fill in. - - Soil Con...

PeruThis erosion box is a teaching aid, which demonstrates, in miniature, the erosive effect of water on different soil contours. - - Soil Conservation in the Andes. Terraced agriculture was practiced on...

EthiopiaClose-up of an Ethiopian peasant who is working on a soil conservation project. - - Assistance to soil and water conservation. Reafforestation and erosion control work is being carried out in Ethiopia...

ThailandTrees destroyed for hillside rice cultivation. Rice is grown for 2-3 years on steep slopes, until the soil is exhausted. The fields are then abandoned and more forest land is cleared to create new fi...