Close-up of two oxen pulling a plough in a Shaker village where traditional farming methods are used, at Hancock, Massachusetts, New England, USA

View of the McGill sheep farm on Carcass Island in Port Patterson in the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean, South America

Culling sheep for their wool at Long Island Farm outside Stanley in the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean, South America

Farmers ploughing field using traditional method next to industrial scene, India.

Farmer uses a buffalo to pull plough through a crop field near Fuli, Xingping, China

Polytunnels on a fruit farm in Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Fruit tunnel frames at Harewood End, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom

Fruit tunnel frames at Harewood End, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom

Polytunnels on a fruit farm in Perthshire, Scotland

Fruit tunnel frames at Harewood End, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom

Bangladesh man carrying boxed net, fish hatchery employing scientific methods at haluaghat, mymensingh region

Bangladesh fish caught at a fish hatchery employing scientific methods at haluaghat, mymensingh region

Bangladesh fish caught at a fish hatchery employing scientific methods at haluaghat, mymensingh region

Hands holding walnuts over box

Hands holding bowl of walnuts

Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant, Grundremmingen, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Self-sufficient labor-intensive farming in Ha Giang province, Vietnam.Traditional sustainable agriculture

Self-sufficient labor-intensive farming in Ha Giang province, Vietnam.Traditional sustainable agriculture

The weed eating goats of Ewe4ic Ecological Services are herded across the street from a mall in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The herd of approxiamately 1200 goats travels all over the western U.S. with their owner, Lani Malmberg. Goats are an ecologically sound method of weed clearing and land management.

A fruit vendor holds pineapples at his fruit stand in the in the Vinales Valley, in the Pinar del Rio Province of Cuba. The Vinales Valley has been on UNESCO's World Heritage List since November 1999 as a cultural landscape enriched by traditional farm and village architecture. Old-fashioned farming methods are still used in Vinales, notably to grow tobacco.