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53 images Created 11 Oct 2017

WORLD FOOD: Women Farmers

Photographs of women farmers. Over half of the farmers in the world, who grow our food, are women, yet the lag behind in recognition, financial aid and research assistance. Photographed by National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson.
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  • Drew Rivers on Full Belly Farm, California.
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  • In the village of Garadawa, near Keita, Niger.  One of the villages where the Project Keita has been restoring soil.  <br />
Most of the work has been done by the women of the area.
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  • Trampeling wheat for the winnowing process in Ethiopia. The oxen help break down the wheat stalks and loosen the grain in the heads to make the winnowing easier.
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  • Farm women cluster in the shade of a tree in the Wakoro Region of Mali to harvest and pick groundnuts (peanuts) after they have been collected from the surrounding field and piled high in the shade. The activity is a big social occasion with much talk and gossip, much laughter amid the dusty work of picking the peanut pods off the roots.
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  • Harvesting sorghum in the Wakoro region of Mali. Sorghum grain heads are collected after the tall stalks have been knocked over, then taken to be threshed and winnowed. <br />
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People seen in these pictures include:<br />
Tiecoura Dembele (man in blue shirt and white cap)<br />
Rachelle Coulibaly<br />
Djenebou Dembele (the girl in blue dress hold sorghum)<br />
Seriba Dembele (the older man holding sorghum heads)<br />
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They have about 30 people in their family farm group and think they grow about 12 tons of sorghum. They will keep 7 tons for family consumption and sell 5 tons on the market.
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  • Harvesting groundnuts (peanuts) in Siby Mali on the farm of Rassama Camara.<br />
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The women are hauling the bundles of dried out plants to big piles where they sit in the shade and pluck the nuts out.  It is a big social occasion as well as being long, hard, dusty work. <br />
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Women in pictures include:<br />
Téréyan Keita (Old woman)<br />
Mariama Keita with her baby, Awa Keita<br />
Fatoumata Sangaré
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  • Harvesting groundnuts (peanuts) in Siby Mali on the farm of Rassama Camara.<br />
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The women are hauling the bundles of dried out plants to big piles where they sit in the shade and pluck the nuts out.  It is a big social occasion as well as being long, hard, dusty work.
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  • Harvesting groundnuts (peanuts) in Siby, Mali.
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  • Drying tree nuts (used for shea butter?) in the village of Bagui Traue, Kolokani, Mali. The nuts are dried over a slow fire, then the meat is ground and pulverized. Also used for the oil in cooking.
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  • Family gathered after grinding corn (maize) into meal for cooking in the village of Bagui Traue, near Kolokani, Mali.
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  • Grinding corn (maize) into meal for cooking in the village of Bagui Traue, near Kolokani, Mali.
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  • Sufia Begum collects and sells milk in the village of Molmolia, Dumvnia, Khulna, Bangladesh. She basically goes around to the various houses, collects excess milk in her vessel, then goes around and sells it by the glass. Part of the village good system.
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  • Milking a cow in the village of Jogahat, Chunamonhathi, Jessore, Bangladesh.
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  • Rice threshing in the fields of the village of Jogahat, Chunamonhathi, Jessore, Bangladesh.  The men are using a foot powered thresher to beat the rice off the still-wet rice plants. Rice harvested in the field will be carried back to the village where it will be cleaned and dried. <br />
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The woman sweeping rice up is Shukhjan Begum.<br />
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The two guys with rice sacks on their heads are:<br />
Muhammed Dobibar Rahman (Red printed shirt)<br />
Jinnat (white shirt)<br />
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The others at the machine are: Robiul Islam, Joshim, Tobiban Rahman and Anisur Rahman.<br />
Cell: +8801711375573
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  • Ms. Anwana Begum owns farms and owns a small shop and tea stall. She has a homestead garden, grows taro and green banana for curry. Her village is Shajiali, near Jessore, Bangladesh.
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  • Rice harvest, threshing and winnowing in the field in Bali. This woman is gleaning, taking what little rice she can get from the leftovers of harvest.
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  • Rice harvest, threshing and winnowing in the field in Bali. Women cut the rice, hand it to other women who thresh it in the basket with the netting around (to prevent the rice being lost) and then other women winnow out the straw and chaff. <br />
 Jro Nyoman Pada  (wearing the hat with leaves in it to keep her cool.<br />
4. Biang Dewa Gede (wearing the white shirt, standing by basket.)<br />
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These women are harvest for another farmer. They will get a bag of rice for every nine they harvest. (One in ten, in other words.)
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  • Rice harvest, threshing and winnowing in the field in Bali. Women cut the rice, hand it to other women who thresh it in the basket with the netting around (to prevent the rice being lost) and then other women winnow out the straw and chaff. <br />
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Women seen in the pictures include:<br />
1. Gusti Biang Sukada  (wear the pink shirt and winnowing)<br />
2. Jro Made Ratna (wearing the Micky Mouse jacket and pink scarf)<br />
3. Jro Nyoman Pada  (wearing the hat with leaves in it to keep her cool.<br />
4. Biang Dewa Gede (wearing the white shirt, standing by basket.)<br />
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These women are harvest for another farmer. They will get a bag of rice for every nine they harvest. (One in ten, in other words.)
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  • Rice harvest, threshing and winnowing in the field in Bali. Women cut the rice, hand it to other women who thresh it in the basket with the netting around (to prevent the rice being lost) and then other women winnow out the straw and chaff. <br />
Biang Dewa Gede (wearing the white shirt, standing by basket.)
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  • Winnowing rice in the rice paddies among the coconut trees in Luwus village of Bali. The woman is Bu Jro and she was getting one bag of rice (70kg) per each died of one eco size. (100 ecos to the hectare.)
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  • Winnowing rice in the rice paddies among the coconut trees in Luwus village of Bali.
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  • Harvesting tomatoes in Bali, Indonesia.
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  • Milking her cow in the communal village pasture is Nina Yavorina. Her cow is Zozulka. As is the custom here Nina has one cow, and assumes the duties of cowherd for all of the villagers cows in her turn. At noon she would milk her cow out in the pasture.
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  • Farmers near Lviv, Ukraine grow potatoes  and cabbage, two of the staple crops of small farmers in this rich farming country near the Black Sea. Farmer is Olexandra Salo.
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  • Tricia Bross gather vegetables on her Luna Circle Farm near Rio, Wisconsin. Tricia has been a farmer for more than 20 years, and has been a mentor to many market-garden farmers in the upper midwest.
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  • Weston Antique Apples orchard near New Berllin, Wisconsin.
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  • Weston Antique Apples orchard near New Berllin, Wisconsin.
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  • Farmer Tammy Tietz with some of their produce from Tietz Farms near Watertown, Wisconsin.
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  • Potato Harvest in the high Andes of Peru with Benigno Fuero and Juana Panduro Valerio (need to check this name). At Chupaca - Liriopampa. Benigno brought in 110 varieties to the fair. Fields belong to Juvino Valerio, one of six fields. Planted 8 bags, harvesting 140 bags.
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  • Potato harvest in the High Andes of Peru.
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  • Potato Harvest in the high Andes of Peru withSeñora Fausta "Uva" Callupe.<br />
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At Bellavista - Macacha<br />
Kaydee and Micaela Chavez.<br />
Harvesting potatoes and huuchuy.<br />
Plans on keeping ten bags for family consumption. Got 17 bags from that field, then 10 from another, unknown bags from another. And 15 bags total from two lower fields. <br />
Uses chicken and sheep manure (sheep preferred) and also NPK. <br />
Harvesting 60 to 70 varieties from these fields.
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  • Tayitis Mohammed mixes injera out of teff flower and water in her house in Fontanina near Kombulcha in the Wollo region of the Ethiopian highlands. Injera is the staple bread of Ethiopia, which makes teff a valuable grain. Smoke from the kitchen fire made the rays of the setting sun show up brightly in the dark cookng area to the side of the main room of the stick and clay built house. The walls of the house are caulked with teff straw as well.<br />
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The injera batter, a bit runny like pancake batter, is then transfer to the bucket last used to "ferment" the injera for a couple of days, picking up the residual yeasts in the bucket and providing leavening to the bread.
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  • The community seed bank (CSB) in Harbu which was built and sponsored by Ethio Organic Seed Action (EOSA) to help farmers regain traditional varieties of crops and have a safety net against loss of crops in times of drought and crop failure. <br />
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Members of the seed bank contribute seeds and can use the seeds for their crops. Included in the seed bank is a germplasm reserve, where seeds are stored in jars as a further means of preserving greater crop diversity. <br />
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Seen in the germplasm reserve are CSB members and farmers Ansha Seid (turquoise scarf) and Seid Shiferan (tan scarf) looking at the jars of seeds.
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  • Tayitis Mohammed keeps a personal seed bank in their house in the Fontanina area south of Kombulcha, Ethiopia. These seeds are their insurance against crop failure so that they can plant again should disaster strike.
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  • Women carry sorghum home from the fields along the road south of Kombulcha, Ethiopia. <br />
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Sorghum is a staple of the food supply here. The grain will be part of dinner tonight and the stalks will be fed to the cattle and other livestock. The long stalks are favored because of the volume of forage the provide.
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  • Women carry sorghum home from the fields along the road south of Kombulcha, Ethiopia. <br />
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Sorghum is a staple of the food supply here. The grain will be part of dinner tonight and the stalks will be fed to the cattle and other livestock. The long stalks are favored because of the volume of forage the provide.
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  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
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Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
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The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals.
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  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
<br />
Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
<br />
The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals.
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  • Zemu Ali stands next to her small shelter where she guards the teff crop of a local farmer. The small stalk-built structures are common in the region south of Kombulcha where large amounts of teff are grown in the Ethiopian highlands. Teff is highly valued, and Zemu is making sure that stray cattle do not invade the field and damage the crop.
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  • Angie Hamilton with her British White Cattle on their farm in Carmarthenshire, Wales.<br />
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 The British White is polled (genetically hornless), docile and was a dual purpose breed (beef and milk) until 1950. Since then the British Whites selection has been for beef production with carry over heavy milk production.
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  • Harvesting potatoes in the Andes commuity of Pampallacta at the Potato Park near Pisac, Peru. Hundreds of varieties of potatoes are grown in high mountain fields on a seven year rotation.  These fields belong to Mariano Sutta Apucusi, who is a technician at the park and a varayoc, a traditional spiritual "mayor" of the community.  Someone who has a lot of knowledge about the rituals and maintains these rituals in their home. In their family field in Pampallacta at 14,000 feet altitude.  It is an hour trip each way to the fields.  The horses are loaded with bags of potatoes that take two strong men to load.<br />
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Mariano Sutta Apucusi is wearing the traditional hat and a dark red sweater. Sabina Sutta Apucusi is his sister, wearing a brown hat and a light red sweater.<br />
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Mariano Sutta Apucusi is wearing the traditional hat and a dark red sweater. Sabina Sutta Apucusi is his sister, wearing a brown hat and a light red sweater.<br />
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The Parque de la Papa, or potato park, near Pisac, Peru is using potatoes as a focal point to aid biodiversity and local economics, as well as bringing the community together through traditional values.
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  • Antonia, wife of Mariano Sutta Apucusi. At their home in Pampallacta.  Oca is a tuber relative of the potato, grown in the high Andes.  Oca is part of the vast biodiversity of some 1,300 varieties of potatoes and tubers grown here. Seen here at the home of Mariano and Antonia Sutta Apucusi at ther home in Pampallacta, at the Parque de la Papa near Pisac, Peru.<br />
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Mariano Sutta Apucusi is wearing the traditional hat and a dark red sweater. Sabina Sutta Apucusi is his sister, wearing a brown hat and a light red sweater.
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  • In the villages around Keita, Niger villagers and the FAO have combined efforts to restore 36,000 sq. kilometers of land that was ravaged by the droughts of the 70's and 80's.  Most of the work has been done by some 10,000 women of the area, returning much of the land to productivity.In all they have planted 18,000,000 trees.<br />
Mariama Abdouleye and her children (left) Idrissa Abdourahmane and (right) Abdoulaye Aboubakar.<br />
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Her sister is Rabi Aboubakar.
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  • In the village of Garadawa, near Keita, Niger.  One of the villages where the Project Keita has been restoring soil.  Most of the work has been done by the women of the area. Issa Aminatou is winnowing sorghum by pouring the grain and allowing the evening breezed to blow away the chaff.  Her baby is on her back, getting first lessons in where food comes from.
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  • The worst erosion on Earth is seen in the deeply gullied hills of the Loess plateau in Shaanxi province of China. Yan Feng Qing in the village of Jiang Xing Zhuang harvesting millet using scissors to cut the heads off the plants.
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  • Farmers near Sheng Cun Village in Yuanyang County harvest rice from their terraces to make a meager living.
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  • Woman carrying food to workers in the fields near Sheng Cun Village in Yuanyang County as they harvest rice.
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  • Li Kaixin family harvesting rice near Sheng Cun Village in Yuanyang County, Yunan province, China.  The grain is threshed in the field before bagging to carry out.  The stalks are laid out to dry in the terraces.
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  • Li Kaixin family harvesting rice near Sheng Cun Village in Yuanyang County, Yunan province, China.  The grain is threshed in the field before bagging to carry out.  The stalks are laid out to dry in the terraces.
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  • Farming in the Euphrates valley of Syria, the birthplace of agriculture some 10,000 years ago.  Growing and harvesting sesame.<br />
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Harvesting sesame at Dwerat village was Sawsan Khalawi
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  • Farming in the Euphrates valley of Syria, the birthplace of agriculture some 10,000 years ago.  Growing and harvesting sesame.
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  • Mary Jane Butters, Washington State, United States
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  • Potato farming in Maine, United States.g
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