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Ethiopia, March 1953 - This photograph shows the team of three anti-rinderpest vaccinators, mounted on mules riding through a grove of candelabra euphorbia trees. Each man carries a thermos flask filled with ampoules of vaccine kept on ice. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has sent a mission to Ethiopia to help modernize the country's agriculture and forestry. Working there are experts in crop production, animal production, animal diseases' control, rural welfare, forest development and nutrition. This mission includes a team of FAO veterinarians.