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  • Winnowing rice in the rice paddies among the coconut trees in Luwus village of Bali. The woman is Bu Edi 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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  • 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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  • Woman and her duck near Sheng Cun Village in Yuanyang County, China.
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  • Amina Seid farms with her brother in the Fonanina community south of Kombulcha in the Wollo region of Ethipia's highlands. They keep grain in the house as well as in underground storage outside. Her brother is Ahimed Endris.
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  • Threshing rice in a field in Bali. This woman is doing second harvest, trying to get the last of the rice from the bundles that have already been threshed by the women in the background. This is essentially charity gleaning, and she can take home (for free) up to 7kg of the rice. About one big bowl, which might feed her for a couple of days. <br />
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Her name is Dadong Angga.
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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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  • Woman with baby harvesting potatoes  on organic farm in Maine.
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  • Rug weaver in a shop in Khotan, Xinjiang Province, China.
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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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Mariama Keita with her baby
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  • Mrs. Sandra Thomson, one of the Sanday knitters works in her tiny house on the island of Sanday.  The knitters are a sort of cooperative, marketing knitwear for several dozen women on the island.  Mrs. Thomson does all her knitting by hand and likes to stand in front of her window so she can see who is going by.  (She had a pair of binoculars there, just in case.)  Orkney, Scotland
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  • Threshing rice in the fields of Bali, beating the bundles of freshly cut rice against boards to get the rice out.
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  • Sunrise at Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice.  20,000 revelers wait to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge.
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  • Lighthouse keeper Larry and Pauline Butler at Galley Head Lighthouse, Ireland.
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  • Windmill quilt in Kansas
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Mrs. Sandra Thomson, one of the Sanday knitters works in her tiny house on the island of Sanday.  The knitters are a sort of cooperative, marketing knitwear for several dozen women on the island.  Mrs. Thomson does all her knitting by hand and likes to stand in front of her window so she can see who is going by.  (She had a pair of binoculars there, just in case.) Orkney, Scotland
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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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  • 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.<br />
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Farmers is Olexandra Salo (with cabbage)
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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.
    MM7753_20101102_46771.jpg
  • Farmer near Sheng Cun Village in Yuanyang County harvest rice from their terraces to make a meager living.
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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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  • 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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  • 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. 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.)
    MM8154_20131018_17236.jpg
  • 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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  • Threshing rice in a field in Bali. This woman is doing second harvest, trying to get the last of the rice from the bundles that have already been threshed by the women in the background. This is essentially charity gleaning, and she can take home (for free) up to 7kg of the rice. About one big bowl, which might feed her for a couple of days.
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  • Winnowing rice in the rice paddies among the coconut trees in Luwus village of Bali. The woman is Bu Edi 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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  • Pilar Ariesto Valiña and her aunt Amelia in the little Galician village of O Cebreiro.  Pilar came to the town as a young woman, when it was a simple Celtic farming hamlet complete with thatch-roofed Palloza. Today she owns the Hotel O Cebreiro and Casa Valiña that houses and feeds countless pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago.
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  • Young woman in mourning at Tombete Village in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, where villagers demonstrate traditional crafts and hunting.
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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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