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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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  • 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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  • On the farm of Yacouba Sawadogo near the village of Gourga in northern Burkina Faso (north of Oubhigouya.  Yacouba has been a famous pioneer in using the technique of Zai, small pits dug in the hard soil to promote plant growth, the restore regions once thought lost to desertification in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  • Grave stones dating from the 1600's line the inside walls of St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.  The design of the stone is traditional with several Orkney twists.  The skull and crossbones remind us all (as if we needed it) or our mortality.  At the time it was common for an Orkney bride to prepare burial shroulds for herself and her husband at the same time that she was making a blanket for the first bairn (child.)  Orkney, Scotland
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