Pounding coffee beans in Ngiresi village, Tanzania

Thatched cottages at Tullycross, rainy wheather, Renvyle, Connemara, County Galway, Connacht, Republic of Ireland

Woman carrying fodder on road from Telouet to Ait Ben Haddou, Ounila River valley, Ouarzazate Province, region of Draa-Tafilalet, Morocco

Tobacco farmer ploughing a tobacco field with oxen in Vinales, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Elderly lady collecting straw in a field, near Minnanthu village, Bagan, Myanmar, (Burma)

Farmer and oxen ploughing paddy fields, near Mandalay, Myanmar, (Burma)

Margaret Nderitu, a client of KWFT microcredit, picking tea. She has been with KWFT since 2005, and has reimbursed more than 10 loans (school fees, business, hospital & farming loans)

Farmer Lincoln Kimanthi Mugo (picking tea) is servicing a 80,000 KS loan from BIMAS microcredit. He has been a client of BIMAS since 2004

David Mucangi Mbogoh (showing tea leaves) runs a farm financed by a loan from BIMAS microcredit. He has been a client since 2002 and is currently servicing a loan of 1 million Kenyan shillings

Margaret Nderitu, a client of KWFT microcredit, handling harvested tea in the growers' cooperative pickup point

Farmer Polly Mukami (picking tea) is servicing a 80,000 KS loan from BIMAS microcredit. She has been a client of BIMAS since 2004

Man tending a vegetable garden.

Enactment of a typical peasant woman on the way to market, Reserva San Blas, South Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Three peasant women in traditional Ukrainian costume performing a countrified folk dance at the farmers\' museum in the formerly German inhabited Bessarabian village Friedenstal, today\'s Mirnopolje, Ukraine

Bedchamber in a peasant's house after 1860, Franconian Open Air Museum of Bad Windsheim, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Farmer dancing with a peasant, Fischerstechen or water jousting festival, Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe

Muzeul Taranului Roman, Museum of the Romanian Peasant, farm Museum, folk art, Bucharest, Romania, Eastern Europe, Europe, PublicGround

Monument to Worker and Peasant Woman, by Soviet sculptor Vera Muhina, created in 1937 and restored in 2009, Moscow, Russia

Lueftlmalerei traditional mural, peasant couple, and St. George and the dragon, on a facade, Adolf-Baader-Strasse 7, Mittenwald, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Muzeul Taranului Roman, Museum of the Romanian Peasant, farm Museum, folk art, Bucharest, Romania, Eastern Europe, Europe, PublicGround

Monument to Worker and Peasant Woman by Soviet sculptor Vera Muhina, created in 1937 and restored in 2009, Moscow, Russia

Monument to Worker and Peasant Woman, by Soviet sculptor Vera Muhina, created in 1937 and restored in 2009, Moscow, Russia

Monument to Worker and Peasant Woman, by Soviet sculptor Vera Muhina, created in 1937 and restored in 2009, Moscow, Russia

Peasant's Museum and Monument, Monumento al Campesino, fertility monument, work by Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe

Circular staircase leading down into a lava cave, Casa Museo al Campesino, Peasant¥s House Museum, Mozaga, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe

Monument to Worker and Peasant Woman by Soviet sculptor Vera Muhina, created in 1937 and restored in 2009, Moscow, Russia

Monument to Worker and Peasant Woman, by Soviet sculptor Vera Muhina, created in 1937 and restored in 2009, Moscow, Russia

Monument to Worker and Peasant Woman, by Soviet sculptor Vera Muhina, created in 1937 and restored in 2009, Moscow, Russia

Casa Museo al Campesino, Peasant¥s House Museum, Mozaga, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe

Monument to Worker and Peasant Woman, by Soviet sculptor Vera Muhina, created in 1937 and restored in 2009, Moscow, Russia

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