Peasant woman tidying up grains drying on her house terrace, Nagarkot, Nepal

Family on a wooden wheeled bullock cart drawn by white bullocks and driven by a woman, Kalaw hills, southern Shan state, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

A woman harvests rice by hand with a sickle, Yunnan Province, China, Asia

A traditional kitchen stove fuelled mainly by dried mazie stalks, also heats the sleeping platforms in the two roomed peasant farmer's house in northern China, Asia

A peasant farmer gathers dried corn husks to burn as fuel on the kitchen stove which not only cooks the food and heats the water but also heats the house, Heilongjiang province, China, Asia

A mother and daughter peasant farmers in northern China, Asia

Food market of Ambohimahasoa city, Madagascar

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

Elena at work, controlling the ripening process. Cheese shop, Formatgeria Mas dﾴEroles, artisan cheese making, Adrall village, Alt Urgell, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain

Onions stand, food market, Fianarantsoa city, Madagascar

Family of farmers, near Antananarivo, Madagascar

Street scene, in food market of Ambohimahasoa city, Madagascar

Tea harvest in Sahambavy, near Fianarantsoa city, Madagascar

Portrait of Malagasy mother and son, surroundings of Manja village, Madagascar

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

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

Anna Gruber kneading the cheese, traditional cheese production, Karseggalm (1603 m, one of the oldest mountain hut in the valley), Grossarl Valley, Salzburg, Austria

Farmers treshing millet, Madagascar, Africa

Peasant woman selling handicraft, Muselievo, Bulgaria, Europe

Woman with baskets passing Chua Cau, Japanese Bridge, Hoi An, Annam, Vietnam

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

Peasant woman, Muselievo near Pleven, Bulgaria

Woman with baskets passing Chua Cau, Japanese Bridge, Hoi An, Annam, Vietnam

Farmer harvesting, agriculture around Erhai lake, Dali, Yunnan, People's Republic of China, Asia

Peasant woman selling handicraft, Cape Kaliakra, Bulgaria

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

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

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

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

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