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  • A farmer unloads natural fertilizer into a field, Barroeta village, Baztan, Basque country, Spain.
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  • Two farm hands clean the excrement in the pen where they keep pregnant sows at the Grand Canal Pig Farm in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China on 04 August, 2011. The material will be used to produce Methane as well as fertilizer for the nearby rice farms. Pork is by far the most popular meat eaten in China, with its value deeply ingrained in the mind of the Chinese people. The importance of pork in the Chinese diet and the role of prices in affecting social stability are demonstrated by the establishment in 2007 by the central government of a "strategic pork reserve", the only one of its kind in the world.
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  • Two farm hands clean the excrement in the pen where they keep pregnant sows at the Grand Canal Pig Farm in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China on 04 August, 2011. The material will be used to produce Methane as well as fertilizer for the nearby rice farms. Pork is by far the most popular meat eaten in China, with its value deeply ingrained in the mind of the Chinese people. The importance of pork in the Chinese diet and the role of prices in affecting social stability are demonstrated by the establishment in 2007 by the central government of a "strategic pork reserve", the only one of its kind in the world.
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  • Two farm hands clean the excrement in the pen where they keep pregnant sows at the Grand Canal Pig Farm in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China on 04 August, 2011. The material will be used to produce Methane as well as fertilizer for the nearby rice farms. Pork is by far the most popular meat eaten in China, with its value deeply ingrained in the mind of the Chinese people. The importance of pork in the Chinese diet and the role of prices in affecting social stability are demonstrated by the establishment in 2007 by the central government of a "strategic pork reserve", the only one of its kind in the world.
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  • Two farm hands clean the excrement in the pen where they keep pregnant sows at the Grand Canal Pig Farm in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China on 04 August, 2011. The material will be used to produce Methane as well as fertilizer for the nearby rice farms. Pork is by far the most popular meat eaten in China, with its value deeply ingrained in the mind of the Chinese people. The importance of pork in the Chinese diet and the role of prices in affecting social stability are demonstrated by the establishment in 2007 by the central government of a "strategic pork reserve", the only one of its kind in the world.
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  • Two farm hands clean the excrement in the pen where they keep pregnant sows at the Grand Canal Pig Farm in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China on 04 August, 2011. The material will be used to produce Methane as well as fertilizer for the nearby rice farms. Pork is by far the most popular meat eaten in China, with its value deeply ingrained in the mind of the Chinese people. The importance of pork in the Chinese diet and the role of prices in affecting social stability are demonstrated by the establishment in 2007 by the central government of a "strategic pork reserve", the only one of its kind in the world.
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  • Growing chillies for export to China in the Tai Lue ethnic minority village of Ban Nawai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  The scarcity of agricultural land in Southern Yunnan province is promoting Chinese farmers and small scale entrepreneurs to cross the international border between China and Lao PDR in order to invest in cash crops. The villagers are supplied with seeds, plastic and fertilisers to grow various crops which are then exported back to China on a vast scale.
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  • With her young child asleep on her back, a Tai Lue ethnic minority woman plants out chilli seedlings for export to China, Ban Nawai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  The scarcity of agricultural land in Southern Yunnan province is promoting Chinese farmers and small scale entrepreneurs to cross the international border between China and Lao PDR in order to invest in cash crops. The villagers are supplied with seeds, plastic and fertilisers to grow various crops which are then exported back to China on a vast scale.
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  • Growing chillies for export to China in the Tai Lue ethnic minority village of Ban Nawai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  The scarcity of agricultural land in Southern Yunnan province is promoting Chinese farmers and small scale entrepreneurs to cross the international border between China and Lao PDR in order to invest in cash crops. The villagers are supplied with seeds, plastic and fertilisers to grow various crops which are then exported back to China on a vast scale.
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  • In the early morning, a vegetable grower puts organic fertiliser on her garden in the small riverside town of Sampan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The banks of the Nam Ou river in Sampan are lined with recession planting - advancing as the dry season sets in and the river's level drops, receding as the rains come and it rises once again.
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  • Young school children empty banana skins from their food waste box into a composter outdoors at their school, Hampshire, UK.
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  • A family works fertile fields where agriculture is important for survival, at Bedhal at Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt where the availability of water determines the agricultural economic life in an oasis village. Dakhla Oasis consists of several communities, along a string of sub-oases. The main settlements are Mut (more fully Mut el-Kharab and anciently called Mothis), El-Masara, Al-Qasr, Qalamoun, together with several smaller villages. Some of the communities have identities that are separate from each other. Qalamoun has inhabitants that trace their origins to the Ottomans.
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  • Mexican Papantla Flyers perform a pre-Hispanic ritual dedicated to their sun god, a leap from a 90 foot pole, on 15th May 1996, the Tulum ruins, Yucatan, Mexico. Dressed in their native costumes these men lash themselves to this towering pole with a leather bindings and soar off into space backwards and upside down in the ultimate leap of faith. The Papantla Flyers are Totonac Indians performing an ancient fertility ceremony. As they slowly descend to earth, the 13 revolutions made by the four flyers equal the 52-year span of the Aztec century. They represent earth, water, fire and air and the interweaving of these four elements symbolizes the creation of new life. A fifth man is left on top, dancing on this tiny nine-inch platform while simultaneously playing both a pre-Columbian flute and drum.
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  • A farmer walks under date palms in fertile fields where agriculture is important for survival, at Bedhal near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt where the availability of water determines the agricultural economic life in an oasis village. Dakhla Oasis consists of several communities, along a string of sub-oases. The main settlements are Mut (more fully Mut el-Kharab and anciently called Mothis), El-Masara, Al-Qasr, Qalamoun, together with several smaller villages. Some of the communities have identities that are separate from each other. Qalamoun has inhabitants that trace their origins to the Ottomans.
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  • Portrait of a farming family standing in front of date palms in fertile fields where agriculture is important for survival, at Bedhal near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt where the availability of water determines the agricultural economic life in an oasis village. Dakhla Oasis consists of several communities, along a string of sub-oases. The main settlements are Mut (more fully Mut el-Kharab and anciently called Mothis), El-Masara, Al-Qasr, Qalamoun, together with several smaller villages. Some of the communities have identities that are separate from each other. Qalamoun has inhabitants that trace their origins to the Ottomans.
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  • A farming family tend onions and other vegetables in fertile fields where agriculture is important for survival, at Bedhal in Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt where the availability of water determines the agricultural economic life in an oasis village. Dakhla Oasis consists of several communities, along a string of sub-oases. The main settlements are Mut (more fully Mut el-Kharab and anciently called Mothis), El-Masara, Al-Qasr, Qalamoun, together with several smaller villages. Some of the communities have identities that are separate from each other. Qalamoun has inhabitants that trace their origins to the Ottomans.
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  • Date palm trees, nearby homes and green cereals growing on fertile soil, not far from the River Nile, in the village of Bairat on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Egypt is known as one of the oldest agricultural civilizations; the River Nile allowed a sedentary agricultural society to develop thousands of years ago.
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  • Lemons grow on fertile soil on a smallholding located on the slopes of the Vesuvius volcano, seen in the distance which last erupted in 1944. Growing on land near Somma Vesuviana, the family have owned for generations would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Local farmer tends crops in a fertile field on his smallholding, located on the slopes of the Vesuvius volcano, seen in the distance which last erupted in 1944.   Tending his plants on land near Somma Vesuviana, his family have owned for generations, he and his elderly family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • A sun symbol belonging to the Communist Party of Nepal (UML - Unified Marxist Leninist) is seen before elections in a wide landscape of a Himalayan valley in the Gorkha district, one of the 75 districts of central Nepal. Beyond the red-painted sign that has been painted in red on a footpath rock, unavoidable by community passers-by, are fertile terraces where rice and other agricultural crops are growing to sustain villages in these foothills. The light is clear and we can see into the far distance to valleys and hills beyond.
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  • An ostrich chick stands alone in a private pen, beneath a heat lamp at the ostrich farm belonging to Robert and Nina Bailey near Chepstow, Wales. The reddish glow from the heat source concentrates life-giving energy into the young bird, helping it survive the first three months after hatching. Rearing these birds is a specialist and very expensive business but Ostrich meat is a South African delicacy, used for Biltong. Nutritionists promote it as a more healthy alternative because it is higher in protein and lower in fat and cholesterol. An ostrich lays an egg every other day, of which 40 to 80% are fertile. In the wild there is a 95% failure rate but using an incubator like this almost guarantees total success. Its latin name, 'Struthio camelus', is the largest of living birds with some males reaching a height of 8 ft (244 cm) and weighing 200 to 300 lb (90-135 kg). In the wild, the polygamous male has from two to six females in his flock. The cock scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which weigh nearly 3 lb (1.35 kg) each. One of the females incubates the eggs during the day, and the cock takes over at night. On the savannah they can run at 40mph (64 kph) for 10 hours though their top speed can reach 80mph. During the 19th-century vogue for ostrich plumes, farms were established in South Africa and later in North America, Australia, and Europe; after World War I fashions changed and the industry collapsed.
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  • A farmhouse In Yangthang village in the Haa valley, Western Bhutan. A typical Bhutanese house is two storeys high with a large airy attic used for storage. In rural areas the ground floor is always used as a barn and the upper floor as the living quarters. In most houses, one elaborately decorated room called the 'choesum' serves as a chapel. In Western Bhutan the walls are usually made of compacted earth. Afterwards the walls are whitewashed and painted decorations added. Phallic decoration is believed to ward off evil spirits and encourage fertility.
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  • A lone farmer drives his Ford tractor across the expanse of a green English field. Using wide arms mounted on the rear,  chemicals reach out to cover a wide surface area, spraying what are possibly pesticides onto growing crops, the mechanised machine passes over the grasses of cereals that are thriving and maturing on this summer's day. The land rises up behind the farmer, a steeper escarpment of the landscape in the county of Kent - a fertile region of souther-eastern Britain, otherwise known as the Garden of England.
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  • Demolition of a village house in rural Bhutan. Phallic decoration is believed to ward off evil spirits and encourage fertility.
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  • Wheat hanging on door of house for good luck and harvest, 4th Sept 2016, Lagrasse, France.
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  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Baldassare and Felicia De Simons (centre) and family surrounded by lemons in their garden in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius466-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • A cultivated field is being spared with pesticides, Someset, UK.
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  • A field of Barley is being sprayed with pesticides, Someset, UK.
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  • Baldassare and Felicia De Simons (centre) and family surrounded by lemons in their garden in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • A rural Slovenian woman tends crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • Glastonbury Festival, 2015.<br />
Women from a festival choir, dressed in red, smiling together and laughing, launching the start of the Glastonbury Festival
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • A portrait of a young lady vet, Diana Stapleton with cows at Manor House Farm, Barnoldswick near Settle, North Yorkshire, England. Diana has just delivered twin calves and checks on other members of the herd before leaving for another appointment. Diana Stapleton belonged to the Dalehead Veterinary Group based in nearby Settle for 15 years, covering a 20-mile area of 500 remote farms though she specialised in small animals and farmwork before dying suddenly at the age of 39.
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  • Sanamaya Chepang with her grand daughter. High up in the mountains in Dhading district live the Chepangs. The Chepangs is an ethnic group which used to be nomadic. Only recently have the settled and their settlements are high up in the mountains. Communication has vastly improved the Chepangs life.
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  • Morris dancers protest outside th Houses of Parliament at May 4th 2020 being designated VE day celebration instead of being the May Day holiday on July 23rd 2019 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Morris dancers protest outside th Houses of Parliament at May 4th 2020 being designated VE day celebration instead of being the May Day holiday on July 23rd 2019 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Morris dancers protest outside th Houses of Parliament at May 4th 2020 being designated VE day celebration instead of being the May Day holiday on July 23rd 2019 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Morris dancers protest outside th Houses of Parliament at May 4th 2020 being designated VE day celebration instead of being the May Day holiday on July 23rd 2019 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Morris dancers protest outside th Houses of Parliament at May 4th 2020 being designated VE day celebration instead of being the May Day holiday on July 23rd 2019 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Morris dancers protest outside th Houses of Parliament at May 4th 2020 being designated VE day celebration instead of being the May Day holiday on July 23rd 2019 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Morris dancers protest outside th Houses of Parliament at May 4th 2020 being designated VE day celebration instead of being the May Day holiday on July 23rd 2019 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • A rural Slovenian church and a local woman tending crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • A rural Slovenian church and a local woman tending crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • An elderly lady carries homegrown produce from her greenhouse in her rural garden, on 5th May 2018, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
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  • An elderly man waters his plants inside the greenhous, on 5th May 2018, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
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  • An elderly man waters his plants inside the greenhous, on 5th May 2018, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
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  • Glastonbury Festival, 2015.<br />
Women from a festival choir, dressed in red, smiling together and hugging, launching the start of the Glastonbury Festival
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  • Glastonbury Festival, 2015.<br />
Women with red flowers in her hair from a festival choir, smiling, dressed in red, launching the start of the Glastonbury Festival
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
    20150923_dairy farm insemination_E.jpg
  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
    20150923_dairy farm feed_D.jpg
  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
    20150923_dairy farm insemination_A.jpg
  • Artificial insemination plays a very important role to keep the herd at a consistent number. A closed herd with no outside influence from other herds off site (apart from the introduction of a bull) the aim is that the cows have one calf per year to keep them milking and to replenish their stocks. Here Paul Wilson AI Technician from the company Genus tests each animal in the AI shed to see which is at the correct stage of its oestrus cycle and therefore requires insemination. Wildon Grange Dairy Farm, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, UK. Owned and run by the Banks family, dairy farming here is a scientific business. From the breeding, nutrition and health of their closed stock of Holstein Friesian cows, through to the end product, the team here work tirelessly, around to clock to ensure content and healthy animals, and excellent quality milk.
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  • Well watered garden bougainvillea growing on a wall in Palm Springs California
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  • Young lady vet, Diana Stapleton with calf at Manor House Farm, Barnoldswick near Settle, North Yorkshire, England. Nursing a healthy cow in the warmth of the farmer's barn, she has just delivered twin calves and checks on other members of the herd before leaving for another appointment. Diana Stapleton belonged to the Dalehead Veterinary Group based in nearby Settle for 15 years, covering a 20-mile area of 500 remote farms though she specialised in small animals and farmwork before dying suddenly at the age of 39.
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  • In a field at the town of Boofzheim in the eastern French Alsace region, an elderly Frenchman harvests some of his self-grown carrots crop. Having left his old bicycle standing at the kerb of a narrow access road and in front of a field full of maturing maize, he bends down with much effort to dig in his fork or spade into the rich Alsace earth and lift out his vegetables to take home. This landscape is typically French or German (Alsace borders the western side of Germany and saw much tragic action in WW2) where maize is a nutritious foodstuff for cattle and also for ducks and geese who are force-fed it locally in the making of fois gras and pate.
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  • An elderly gentleman prunes his precious crop of fresh red roses from his front garden that sits astride the small River Wandle at Carshalton, south London. trimming off their heads, he s dressed in a straw hat and white apron. He is a very active gardener, the nurturing of plants and flowers being his passion now that he is of retirement age after a lifetime of work. Now he enjoys the rewards of his labours from mother earth in this lush plot of his that looks every bit the perfect English cottage garden despite it being in an urban inner-city.
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  • Female vet, Diana Stapleton is ecstatically happy after successfully delivering twin calves to Fresian cow at Manor House Farm, Barnoldswick near Settle, North Yorkshire, England. With the two youngsters spread on the soft straw of the barn, and their mother facing the corner of the outhouse with the resulting afterbirth still attached, Diana makes her sense of achievement clear to the farmer who must also be relived about the positive outcome. The survival of twin cattle births depends on thorough training and an instinct for animal husbandry and medical requirements. Diana Stapleton belonged to the Dalehead Veterinary Group based in nearby Settle for 15 years, covering a 20-mile area of 500 remote farms though she specialised in small animals and farmwork before dying suddenly at the age of 39.
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  • A young girls is running through fields of sweet corn. The Chepangs is an ethnic group which used to be nomadic. Only recently have the settled and their settlements are high up in the mountains. Only a few years ago they did not have any running water and had to bring up water from below but with the help pf Restless Development and their partner NGO Prayash Nepal they now have running clean water from springs diverted into resovoirs and the connected to taps inther settlement. This not only give them clean water to drink, it also improve hygiene dramatiaclly and improve health and it saves precious time for the women who now spend the 4 hours it used to take getting water growing healhty vegetables.
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  • High up in the mountains in Dhading district live the Chepangs. Danda Chaudari community.<br />
The Chepangs is an ethnic group which used to be nomadic. Only recently have they settled and their settlements are high up in the mountains. Only a few years ago they did not have any running water and had to bring up water from below but with the help pf Restless Development and their partner NGO Prayash Nepal they now have running clean water from springs diverted into resovoirs and  connected to taps in their settlement. This not only give them clean water to drink, it also improve hygiene dramatiaclly and thereby improve health. It also saves precious time for the women who now spend the 4 hours it used to take getting water growing healhty vegetables.
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  • A woman is collection rice seedlings from a nursery to bring them into the rice paddy to plant them. Rice, like millet, is part of Nepalese stable foods.
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  • A woman is collection rice seedlings from a nursery to bring them into the rice paddy to plant them. Rice, like millet, is part of Nepalese stable foods. In the back ground is a filed of maze, also an important part of the Nepalese diet.
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  • A woman is collection rice seedlings from a nursery to bring them into the rice paddy to plant them. Rice, like millet, is part of Nepalese stable foods.
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  • A woman is collection rice seedlings from a nursery to bring them into the rice paddy to plant them in Dhading. Rice, like millet, is part of Nepalese stable foods.
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  • 1,890 meters (6,200 feet) above sea level and surrounded by lush tea plantations in Sri Lanka's Hill Country district of Nuwara Eliya, women tea pickers bend over trees to harvest Ceylon tea leaves that are taken to the white building on the left for processing. A carpet of velvety green tea bushes stretch into the far distance. This is the heart of the island's tea industry but was a pleasure retreat of the European planters due to its temperate English climate that produces the finest leaves for the country's economy. Teas from this highest region are described as the champagne of Ceylon teas. The leaf is gathered all year round but the finest teas are made from that plucked in January and February. The best teas of the area give a rich, golden, excellent quality liquor that is smooth, bright, and delicately perfumed.
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  • Deserted fertilizer factory in Lac. Albania’s rigid Stalinists considered heavy industry the force driving all developed economies. All of Albania’s industrial branches suffered from obsolete equipment, inadequate infrastructure, and low levels of worker skill and motivation. Shortages of energy, spare parts, and raw materials stopped industrial production almost entirely in the early 1990s. The fertilizer plant in Lac, designed by the Chinese, was in production, from 1967 to early 2000. The plant used slave labour and it’s processes  have permanently polluted the area, leaching arsenic and copper into the groundwater and contaminating local drinking water sources.
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  • Pee Poople is an new  organisation  from a Sweden.  People of Kibera slum are paid 2 KSH (Kenyan Shillings) to poo. Their faeces is used as a high grade fertilizer that has a market value.
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  • In the Villa of the Vettii in Pompeii we see a fresco in the lararium where a shrine to Roman guardian spirits of the household was situated. Family members performed daily rituals here to guarantee their protection by these domestic spirits. The first two characters are the deeply venerated 'lares' (presumed sons of Mercury and Lara) depicted as two young men in dancing postures, holding drinking horns that guaranteed prosperity. In the centre is the 'genius'. She is another guardian and fertility spirit ensuring the family line (gens) would continue and she wears the 'toga praetexta', bordered in purple, the garment of high-ranking Roman magistrates. Painted before the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in AD79, these frescoes have been uncovered from metre-layers of volcanic ash and pumice but are now fading from moisture and cracked plaster.
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  • Vines are cultivated in the traditional manner, protected by low curved stone walls, on land leading up to a volcanic peak on 26th November 2020, on the edge of Los Volcanes Natural Park in Lanzarote, Spain. The island was transformed by huge volcanic eruptions from 1731-36, which destroyed villages and much of the fertile wheat-growing land, and created the area now known as Timanfaya Natural Park. Farmers discovered that the volcanic soil was fertile and started cultivating the Malvasia Volcanica grape, and making Lanzarotes unique wines. .
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  • A road runs through an area where vines are cultivated in the traditional manner, protected by low curved stone walls on 26th November 2020, on the edge of Los Volcanes Natural Park in Lanzarote, Spain. The island was transformed by huge volcanic eruptions from 1731-36, which destroyed villages and much of the fertile wheat-growing land, and created the area now known as Timanfaya Natural Park. Farmers discovered that the volcanic soil was fertile and started cultivating the Malvasia Volcanica grape, and making Lanzarotes unique wines. .
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  • A road runs through an area where vines are cultivated in the traditional manner, protected by low curved stone walls on 26th November 2020, on the edge of Los Volcanes Natural Park in Lanzarote, Spain. The island was transformed by huge volcanic eruptions from 1731-36, which destroyed villages and much of the fertile wheat-growing land, and created the area now known as Timanfaya Natural Park. Farmers discovered that the volcanic soil was fertile and started cultivating the Malvasia Volcanica grape, and making Lanzarotes unique wines. .
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  • Fatimah Binti Jalal - a smallholder palm oil farmer - stands on her plot in Toniting, Beluran District, Sabah, Malaysia, on 8 September 2016. Fatimah has been farming her small plot since 2005, but the soil is sandy and not very productive. She has been able to increase her yields since becoming part of the Wild Asia Group scheme, which works with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to support Malaysian smallholders to become certified sustainable. This includes improving farm management, reducing their use of pesticides and fertilizers, and increasing yields. Smallholders account for 40% of global palm oil production, and as such play an important role in increasing sustainability within the industry.
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  • Bunches of palm fruit on tree on a small family plot in Beluran District, Sabah, Malaysia, on 7 September 2016. Smallholders account for 40% of global palm oil production, and as such play an important role in increasing sustainability within the industry. This family plot has been able to increase yields since becoming part of the Wild Asia Group scheme, which works with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to support Malaysian smallholders to become certified sustainable. This includes improving farm management, reducing their use of pesticides and fertilizers, and increasing yields.
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  • A female worker in protective eqipment sprays herbicide selectively around oil palms in a plantation in Ukui, Riau Province, Indonesia, on 16 June 2015. This area has become dominated by palm oil production, and some smallholder farmers have formed co-operatives to share costs, increase access to markets, and become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. The workers are part of Amanah, a local cooperative that has helped over 400 farmers become RSPO certified - reducing their use of pesticides and fertilizers, improving their protective clothing practices, and increasing yields. Smallholders account for 40% of global palm oil production, and as such play an important role in increasing sustainability within the industry.
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  • A group of palm oil smallholder farmers sit with Imam El Marzuq from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil 3rd from left, on the veranda of a house Ukui, Riau Province, Indonesia, on 15 June 2015. This area has become dominated by palm oil production, and some smallholder farmers have formed co-operatives to share costs, increase access to markets, and become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. He is part of Amanah, a local cooperative that has helped over 400 farmers become RSPO certified - reducing their use of pesticides and fertilizers, increasing yields, and improving farm management.
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  • Workers weigh bunches of oil palm friut durning a harvest on a plantation in Ukui, Riau Province, Indonesia, on 15 June 2015. This area has become dominated by palm oil production, and some smallholder farmers have formed co-operatives to share costs, increase access to markets, and become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. He is part of Amanah, a local cooperative that has helped over 400 farmers become RSPO certified - reducing their use of pesticides and fertilizers, increasing yields, and improving farm management.
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  • A smallholder farmer harvests palm oil on his plantation in Ukui, Riau Province, Indonesia, on 15 June 2015. This area has become dominated by palm oil production, and some smallholder farmers have formed co-operatives to share costs, increase access to markets, and become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. He is part of Amanah, a local cooperative that has helped over 400 farmers become RSPO certified - reducing their use of pesticides and fertilizers, increasing yields, and improving farm management.
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  • A smallholder uses a scythe on a long pole to harvest palm oil on his plantation in Ukui, Riau Province, Indonesia, on 15 June 2015. This area has become dominated by palm oil production, and some smallholder farmers have formed co-operatives to share costs, increase access to markets, and become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. He is part of Amanah, a local cooperative that has helped over 400 farmers become RSPO certified - reducing their use of pesticides and fertilizers, increasing yields, and improving farm management.
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  • Wildflowers growing on the machair at Cnip, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland on 16 July 2018. Machair is a Gaelic word meaning fertile low lying grassy plain, one of the rarest habitats in Europe. Machair only occurs on exposed western coasts of Scotland and Ireland - in the Outer Hebrides they run up the western shores of Uist, Harris and Lewis
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  • Judges measure giant marrows at the annual Vegetable Olympics, on 30th September 1994, at Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. Sponsored by Garden News Magazine and hosted by a nursery owner, these vegetables have their growth accelerated by special fertilizers and genetic hormones.
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  • Members of the Deptford Jack in the Green dance from pub to pub to Greenwich, London to mark the start of spring. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration. After becoming a source of competition between works Guilds. Participants wear traditional green faces and forest foliage, at tradition from the 17th Century custom of milkmaids going out on May Day with the utensils of their trade decorated with garlands and piled into a pyramid which they carried on their heads. Amongst modern "folkies" and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster.
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  • Wearing a plastic Viking horn helmet, a young man has stopped to rest amid the spectacular wilderness of Glencoe, a valley surrounded by high peaks 3,000 feet (1,000m) high mountains. The landscape is magnificent but unforgiving and walkers mainly stay on well-marked paths or, as this lad is doing - walking along the A82 road that snakes through this Scottish Glen. He admits to having trekked from Glasgow on pagan fertility Wassail rite, once performed in medieval times. This region of Britain, lake many others, was populated by Viking raiders who later settled locally and raised families whose descendents now inhabit the UK. English is full of old Norse words as are place names.
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  • phaluses.) It is believed among the local people that Phra Nang (Princess Goddess) resides in this cave on the beach at Phra Nang Bay. Fishermen, before going out would pledge the Princess Goddess for good luck. Their wishes fulfilled they would return to offer gifts. This could take the form of incense or flowers, but spirits of goddesses require special gifts, the lingams (carved. This has nothing to do with Thai religions of Buddhism or Islam, but it is believed that the lingams and the holy womb would create fertility and prosperity for the whole world and mankind.
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