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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.
    MM8154_20131009_13246-Edit-Edit.jpg
  • 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.
    MM7753_20101101_44552.jpg
  • 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. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101101_44552.jpg
  • 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. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101101_43924.jpg
  • 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.
    MM7753_20101101_44576.jpg
  • Bagui Traue with the harvest of ground peas (?) that he grows by intercropping with his sorghum, seen towering above him. Intercropping allows the farmer to get double crops from the land. Additionally he may plant the same field several times a year.
    MM8154_20131030_22193 - Version 2.jpg
  • 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.
    MM8154_20131009_13052 - Version 2.jpg
  • 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. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101101_44576.jpg
  • The worst erosion on Earth is seen in the deeply gullied hills of the Loess plateau in Shaanxi province of China.  Small fields are all that is left as the erosion whittles away at the land available for crops.
    MM6977_071020_24250.jpg
  • 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. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101101_44576.jpg
  • 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.
    MM7753_20101101_43924.jpg
  • The worst erosion on Earth is seen in the deeply gullied hills of the Loess plateau in Shaanxi province of China.  Small fields are all that is left as the erosion whittles away at the land available for crops.
    Loess_Panorama1.jpg
  • 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.
    MM8154_20131009_13246 - Version 2.jpg
  • The Autumn Corn Festival in Haxtun, Colorado celebrates the areas agriculture by naming Crop Kings.  This year, for the third year in a row, the Irrigated Corn King was Mark Gueck  He rode in the parade down main street with the other crop kings on a Soil Conservation Service float.  Here he is seen before the parade on the local Coop elevator float put together by a friend.
    Ogallala-20200421-0059.jpg
  • 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.
    MM7753_20101031_43518.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220101.jpg
  • Market day in Goro, Ethiopia where women bring grain to sell and farmers bring cattle and other livestock. The cattle market is very busy with sellers and buyers mingling side by side with the animals. <br />
<br />
The grain may be ground into flower or may be used as seed for the next season's crop. They pour the grain to show it off and to further winnow and clean it to make it more valuable. Some were selling corn and chickpeas, but many were selling the typically Ethiopian grain called teff. <br />
<br />
Some choose to sell their grain directly to a broker or middleman rather that sit all afternoon in the hot sun. They can be seen with their bags of grain on a scale, waiting anxiously to see what price they will get for it.
    MM7753_20101028_40661.jpg
  • A crop duster plane flies over a packing plant settling ponds spraying insecticide to kill flies.  Wastewater from the packing plant comes to a series of lined ponds where it is treated and then used to irrigate land, thus assuring that it will not get back into the aquifer and pollute it.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220092.jpg
  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.  <br />
<br />
Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidaceae) – Brazil nut; native to Brazil – large woody fruit with animal-made hole affording a view of an eroded seed. In its natural habitat, the Brazilian rainforest, the mature fruits fall on the ground where agoutis (cat-size brown rodents) are the only animals that are able to gnaw their way through the fruit wall into the seeds. They eat some of the seeds of a fruit and cache the rest for subsequent use. Seeds left in a forgotten cache eventually germinate after 12 to 18 months and give rise to a new Brazil nut tree. <br />
Snippets from the internet: A forest tree, native to northern Brazil and Guiana, that grows 100' tall and has been grown in Hawaii. The fruit is round, woody, 6" long and contains 12-24 nuts per fruit. Almost all of the commercial crop is collected from wild trees<br />
Very good info about the economy etc. of the Brazil nut: http://www.rain-tree.com/brazilnu.htm
    MM7753_2010-07-22_11725.jpg
  • Ogallala Aquifer water underlying a wet meadow on the Haythorn Ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska produces a lush crop of hay.   These meadows, where the Haythorns annually put up 1700 stacks of hay using their horses, are said to be "sub-irrigated" by the water table near the surface.  Springs form wherever any little dip reaches the water table. These draft horses are pulliing the hay up the inclined stacker to the top of the haystack.
    Studio Session-010.jpg
  • Market day in Goro, Ethiopia where women bring grain to sell and farmers bring cattle and other livestock. The cattle market is very busy with sellers and buyers mingling side by side with the animals. <br />
<br />
The grain may be ground into flower or may be used as seed for the next season's crop. They pour the grain to show it off and to further winnow and clean it to make it more valuable. Some were selling corn and chickpeas, but many were selling the typically Ethiopian grain called teff. <br />
<br />
Some choose to sell their grain directly to a broker or middleman rather that sit all afternoon in the hot sun. They can be seen with their bags of grain on a scale, waiting anxiously to see what price they will get for it. <br />
<br />
<br />
Contact: Woudyalew Mulatu<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
w.mulatu@cgiar.org<br />
Mobile: +251 911 40 91 89<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<br />
  <br />
Contact: Shirley Tarawali<br />
Theme Director - People, Livestock, and the Evironment<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
s.tarawali@cgiar.org<br />
Tel: +251 11 617 2221<br />
Tel: +251 91 164 5738<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101028_40661.jpg
  • Market day in Goro, Ethiopia where women bring grain to sell and farmers bring cattle and other livestock. The cattle market is very busy with sellers and buyers mingling side by side with the animals. <br />
<br />
The grain may be ground into flower or may be used as seed for the next season's crop. They pour the grain to show it off and to further winnow and clean it to make it more valuable. Some were selling corn and chickpeas, but many were selling the typically Ethiopian grain called teff. <br />
<br />
Some choose to sell their grain directly to a broker or middleman rather that sit all afternoon in the hot sun. They can be seen with their bags of grain on a scale, waiting anxiously to see what price they will get for it. <br />
<br />
<br />
Contact: Woudyalew Mulatu<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
w.mulatu@cgiar.org<br />
Mobile: +251 911 40 91 89<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<br />
  <br />
Contact: Shirley Tarawali<br />
Theme Director - People, Livestock, and the Evironment<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
s.tarawali@cgiar.org<br />
Tel: +251 11 617 2221<br />
Tel: +251 91 164 5738<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101028_40204.jpg
  • Local wheat varieties in test plants at the Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia. It was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
<br />
The big variety of wheat varieties are important to maintaining biodiversity in the crop and because of how different varieties respond to varying climate and weather patterns from year to year. <br />
<br />
Farmers seen in the seed bank with Regassa include Taddesse Retta, chair of the Farmer Conservator Association and Eshetu Badada, the treasurer.
    MM7753_20101030_42091.jpg
  • Market day in Goro, Ethiopia where women bring grain to sell and farmers bring cattle and other livestock. The cattle market is very busy with sellers and buyers mingling side by side with the animals. <br />
<br />
The grain may be ground into flower or may be used as seed for the next season's crop. They pour the grain to show it off and to further winnow and clean it to make it more valuable. Some were selling corn and chickpeas, but many were selling the typically Ethiopian grain called teff. <br />
<br />
Some choose to sell their grain directly to a broker or middleman rather that sit all afternoon in the hot sun. They can be seen with their bags of grain on a scale, waiting anxiously to see what price they will get for it.
    MM7753_20101028_40204.jpg
  • 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.
    MM7753_20101102_45670.jpg
  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.  <br />
<br />
Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidaceae) – Brazil nut; native to Brazil – large woody fruit with animal-made hole affording a view of an eroded seed. In its natural habitat, the Brazilian rainforest, the mature fruits fall on the ground where agoutis (cat-size brown rodents) are the only animals that are able to gnaw their way through the fruit wall into the seeds. They eat some of the seeds of a fruit and cache the rest for subsequent use. Seeds left in a forgotten cache eventually germinate after 12 to 18 months and give rise to a new Brazil nut tree. <br />
Snippets from the internet: A forest tree, native to northern Brazil and Guiana, that grows 100' tall and has been grown in Hawaii. The fruit is round, woody, 6" long and contains 12-24 nuts per fruit. Almost all of the commercial crop is collected from wild trees<br />
Very good info about the economy etc. of the Brazil nut: http://www.rain-tree.com/brazilnu.htm
    MM7753_2010-07-22_11725.jpg
  • Ogallala Aquifer water underlying a wet meadow on the Haythorn Ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska produces a lush crop of hay.   These meadows, where the Haythorns annually put up 1700 stacks of hay using their horses, are said to be "sub-irrigated" by the water table near the surface.  Springs form wherever any little dip reaches the water table. These draft horses are pulliing the hay up the inclined stacker to the top of the haystack.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220208.jpg
  • Rape crop growing in the countryside near St. Mawes, Cornwall.
    Cornwall_20080504_3339.jpg
  • Rice terraces near Mengpin in Yuanyang county of Yunnan Province, China.  Farmers harvest the rice, the clean up the terraces, scraping the grass and weed from the terraces and repairing the raised banks that hold the water in, preparing the fields for the next crop.
    MM6977_071016_23210.jpg
  • Rassama Camara in his sorghum field in the village of Siby, Mali. Sorghum in is a major crop in this dry land area, and ICRISAT works with farmers to introduce new varieties with various traits that will improve production. Besides eating the grain, the plant material is used of cattle fodder and even to make fences.
    MM8154_20131031_22898 - Version 2.jpg
  • Local wheat varieties in test plants at the Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia. It was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
<br />
The big variety of wheat varieties are important to maintaining biodiversity in the crop and because of how different varieties respond to varying climate and weather patterns from year to year. <br />
<br />
Farmers seen in the seed bank with Regassa include Taddesse Retta, chair of the Farmer Conservator Association and Eshetu Badada, the treasurer. <br />
<br />
<br />
Contact:  Regassa Feyissa<br />
Ethio Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
eosa1@ethionet.et<br />
reg_fey@hotmail.com<br />
Tel: +251 11 5 50 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 911 24 83 40<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101030_42091.jpg
  • Harvesting and stack oats on the farm of Melaku Yifku in the Seriti Village of the Chacha district north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<br />
<br />
Workers are cutting the oats by hand with sickles, and pile them behind them as they move up the field, singing as they go. Then the bundles are hauled to the stacks where a man on top arranges them so that the grain heads are to the inside of the stack so they will dry and be protected from rain before being threshed. The man on the top of the stack is Nigussu Kissaye.<br />
<br />
Horses are grazing on the new cropped oat ground, foraging for leftover grain and straw.<br />
<br />
In the distant valley are other villages in their typical hilltop positions. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
    Harvest Pan II.jpg
  • Harvesting and stack oats on the farm of Melaku Yifku in the Seriti Village of the Chacha district north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<br />
<br />
Workers are cutting the oats by hand with sickles, and pile them behind them as they move up the field, singing as they go. Then the bundles are hauled to the stacks where a man on top arranges them so that the grain heads are to the inside of the stack so they will dry and be protected from rain before being threshed. The man on the top of the stack is Nigussu Kissaye.<br />
<br />
Horses are grazing on the new cropped oat ground, foraging for leftover grain and straw.<br />
<br />
In the distant valley are other villages in their typical hilltop positions.
    Harvest Pan II.jpg
  • Harvesting and stack oats on the farm of Melaku Yifku in the Seriti Village of the Chacha district north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<br />
<br />
Workers are cutting the oats by hand with sickles, and pile them behind them as they move up the field, singing as they go. Then the bundles are hauled to the stacks where a man on top arranges them so that the grain heads are to the inside of the stack so they will dry and be protected from rain before being threshed. The man on the top of the stack is Nigussu Kissaye.<br />
<br />
Horses are grazing on the new cropped oat ground, foraging for leftover grain and straw.<br />
<br />
In the distant valley are other villages in their typical hilltop positions. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101103_47348.jpg
  • Harvesting and stack oats on the farm of Melaku Yifku in the Seriti Village of the Chacha district north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<br />
<br />
Workers are cutting the oats by hand with sickles, and pile them behind them as they move up the field, singing as they go. Then the bundles are hauled to the stacks where a man on top arranges them so that the grain heads are to the inside of the stack so they will dry and be protected from rain before being threshed. The man on the top of the stack is Nigussu Kissaye.<br />
<br />
Horses are grazing on the new cropped oat ground, foraging for leftover grain and straw.<br />
<br />
In the distant valley are other villages in their typical hilltop positions. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101103_47348.jpg
  • Harvesting and stack oats on the farm of Melaku Yifku in the Seriti Village of the Chacha district north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<br />
<br />
Workers are cutting the oats by hand with sickles, and pile them behind them as they move up the field, singing as they go. Then the bundles are hauled to the stacks where a man on top arranges them so that the grain heads are to the inside of the stack so they will dry and be protected from rain before being threshed. The man on the top of the stack is Nigussu Kissaye.<br />
<br />
Horses are grazing on the new cropped oat ground, foraging for leftover grain and straw.<br />
<br />
In the distant valley are other villages in their typical hilltop positions. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
    Harvest Pan II.jpg
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