Washing beside the drain pumping water from the Nile to supply a crop irrigation channel around the village of Ramadi, west bank of the Nile south of Edfu, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Worker loading wheel barrow with salt, Salt fields at Karangjahe, near Lasem, Java island, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Villagers making palm oil in Dokoue, Benin, West Africa, Africa

Man pushing wheel barrow full of salt, Salt fields at Karangjahe, near Lasem, Java island, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

San Juan Whaleship replica shipyard, Albaola The Sea Factory of The Basques, Pasaia San Pedro, San Sebastian, Bay of Biscay, province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain, Europe

Tannery, Medina, Fes, UNESCO, Morocco

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

Tajik farmers and their families thresh wheat with oxen and donkeys, in a side valley to the Panjshir Valley, in the Hindu Kush mountains, September 10, 2002. Agriculture is primitive and labor intensive in this remote valley. The Panjshir Valley and its side valleys have long been a stronghold for the Tajik people, and the famous commander Ahmed Shah Masood, in their struggle first against the Soviets and then against the Taliban. The Tajik are one of the larger ethnic groups in Afghanistan, second only to the Pashtun people.