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Freshly-caught squid, encornets frais, on sale at food market at Sauveterre- de-Guyenne, Bordeaux, France
Portrait of a man in traditional costume and tall hat during the Farmers Dance on Wando Island, South Korea, Asia
Fresh mangoes at the Saturday farmers market, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific
Neon lights and stalls in Farmers Market, Pike Place Market, Belltown District, Seattle, Washington State, United States of America, North America
Freshly-caught live oysters, fin de claires, on sale at food market at La Reole in Bordeaux region of France
Farmers ploughing field with draft oxen, village of Chitkul at 3460 m, Baspa Valley, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, India, Asia
Saturday farmers market, Duke of York Square, King's Road, Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Shoppers at stalls with fresh produce, Mercado Dos Lavradores (Farmers' Market), Funchal, Madeira, Atlantic, Portugal, Europe
Naomi Mamman, chairman of Chena Bikun Women Farmers Co-operative, Madakiya, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
Farmer working in bare field, with flood irrigation, village of Borunda, Rajasthan state, India, Asia
Naomi Mamman, chairman of Chena Bikun Women Farmers Co-operative, Madakiya, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
Two men carrying heavy loads on the way to local market, Shabin area, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma), Asia
Farmers with tobacco leaves tied on pole for drying, Vinales. Cuba, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America
In mid January 2015, a three day period of excessive rain brought unprecedented floods to the small poor African country of Malawi. It displaced nearly quarter of a million people, devastated 64,000 hectares of land, and killed several hundred people. This shot taken from the air shows flood waters and farmland destroyed by the floods, with local farmers crossing their devastated fields.
A WWF project to supply electricity to a remote island in the Sunderbans, a low lying area of the Ganges Delta in Eastern India, that is very vulnerable to sea level rise. Prior to this project the subsistence farmers had no access to electricity. The project involves charging large batteries from solar panels. Each villager collects a battery to run household lighting, and returns to the recharging station once a week to recharge their battery. This shot shows women carrying the heavy batteries (20Kg) from the charging station.
Traditional hay meadows at the head of the Langdale valley, Lake District, UK, are some of the best wild flower hay meadows left in the country. Since the second world war, Britian has lost over 95% of its traditional hay meadows, as farmers have converted to silage.
A fracking site being fracked near Wasco in California's Central Valley, USA, next to a farmers Cotton crop. Fracking for natural gas and oil, has reduced energy prices in the US, but fracking is a water hungry industry, that competes directly with the agricultural sector for water. After a 4 year long drought water is running out. Fracking also contaminates ground water supplies from all the chemicals that are pumped underground to frack the fossil fuel bearing rocks.
A WWF project to supply electricity to a remote island in the Sunderbans, a low lying area of the Ganges Delta in Eastern India, that is very vulnerable to sea level rise. Prior to this project the subsistence farmers had no access to electricity. The project involves charging large batteries from solar panels. Each villager collects a battery to run household lighting, and returns to the recharging station once a week to recharge their battery. This shot shows women carrying the heavy batteries (20Kg) from the charging station.
BOLIVIA Visiting the farm of Wilfredo Castro, his wife Vicencia Choque and uncle Manuel Villalobes in Colonia 7 Estrellas, near Caranavi. They are exemplary benefeciaries of the FUNDAWI project, gropwing many kinds of aromatic and medicinal herbs, as well as the usual food crops such as maize, beans, fruit and vegetables, ertc. Their cash crop is coffee. Originally from La Paz and the Alti Plano, they have lived in the yngas for over 20 years as successful farmers. Daniel Tarqui (red and blue shirt), FUNDAWI technician, and Delia Cruz Condori (left) giving advice
Walter Clay, a farmer feeding his sheep on Ovenden Moor near Keighley, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Honduras woman with piglets. These were provided by a project to raise nutrition levels in the rural areas. Marcala
A virtually empty farmers water hole in California's Central Valley, which is in the grip of a four year long drought. The catastrophic drought means that no crops will grow without increasingly scarce irrigation water. Many areas of farmland have been abandoned due to the drought.
Zambia man using the mugoye ripper (an alternative to the plough) which has less destructive impact on the soil. Near lusaka
Burundi agakura, a youth agricultural project in gitera. Group of farmers who are associated with agakura doing communal work on farmland.
Cow dung belonging to subsistence farmers in the Sunderbans, a low lying area of the Ganges Delta in Eastern India, that is very vulnerable to sea level rise. The cow dung is used as biofuel in traditional clay ovens.
BOLIVIA ECOTOPS projects in Alto Beni. ECOTOPS technician Fortunato Velasquez Marca examining bananas at a farm in Communidad Los Palmeroa
BOLIVIA Plant for processing medicinal and aromatic herbs, Chizchipani, Caranavi. The project of FUNDAWI. Local farmers visiting the demonstration plot and using the wormery composter
Cow dung belonging to subsistence farmers in the Sunderbans, a low lying area of the Ganges Delta in Eastern India, that is very vulnerable to sea level rise. The cow dung is used as biofuel in traditional clay ovens.
Burundi agakura, a youth agricultural project in gitera. Group of farmers who are associated with agakura doing communal work on farmland.
Bangladesh farmers carrying fish fingerlings from a nearby hatchery to the ponds on their farm, kumargati village, mymensingh region
Zambia kaunga mashi village, shangombo district (near the angolan border). Seed distribution project by catholic relief services. Faces of farmers waiting to receive free seeds to grow crops. This follows 2 years of serious famine in the region