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  • North York Moors hill farmer, Tim Dunn, horn burns a Swaledale ewe, Breck House Farm, Bransdale, North Yorkshire, UK. Horn burning is used as a permanent way of marking the sheep as belonging to an individual farmer.
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  • A female hill farmer holds bottles of milk for pet lambs in the farmyard of Greygarth Farm, Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • A hill farmer takes a break in a landrover after gathering his moorland sheep on foot, Upper Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • A hill farmer stitches the wool sheet containing Swaledale sheep fleece at Lodge Moor Pens, Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK. In Nidderdale a group of hill farmers walk up on the Moor together to gather their sheep as a group and then shear their sheep at Lodge Moor Pens.
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  • Hill farmer showing his Herdwick sheep at the 150th Eskdale Show in Cumbria on 29 September 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Hill farmer showing his Herdwick lamb at Borrowdale Shepherds Meet in Rosthwaite village, Cumbria on 16 September 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Hill farmer with a cup of red used for colouring the fleece of Herdwicks at the 150th Eskdale Show in Cumbria on 29 September 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Hill farmer showing his Herdwick sheep at Buttermere Shepherds Meet in Cumbria on 28 October 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Hill farmer showing his Herdwick sheep at the 150th Eskdale Show in Cumbria on 29 September 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Hill farmer showing his Herdwick sheep at Buttermere Shepherds Meet in Cumbria on 28 October 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Hill farmer showing his Swaledale sheep at Farndale Show on 28th August 2017 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Farndale Show is a small traditional agricultural show in the heart of the North York Moors
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  • Hill farmer showing his Swaledale sheep at Farndale Show on 28th August 2017 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Farndale Show is a small traditional agricultural show in the heart of the North York Moors
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  • Hill farmer showing his Herdwick lamb at Borrowdale Shepherds Meet in Rosthwaite village, Cumbria on 16 September 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Hill farmer showing his Herdwick tup ram at Borrowdale Shepherds Meet in Rosthwaite village, Cumbria on 16 September 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Hill farmer showing his Herdwick sheep at Buttermere Shepherds Meet in Cumbria on 28 October 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Hill farmer putting red on his Herdwick lamb at the 150th Eskdale Show in Cumbria on 29 September 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Hill farmer Andy Fawbert showing his Swaledale sheep at Farndale Show on 28th August 2017 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Farndale Show is a small traditional agricultural show in the heart of the North York Moors photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • A group of hill farmers take a break by a landrover after gathering their moorland sheep on foot, Upper Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Hill farmer, Tim Dunn washes his Swaledale sheep (in preparation for showing at a local agricultural show) at Breck House (farm), Bransdale, North York Moor, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • North York Moors hill farmer, Robert Myers, checks on a Swaledale ewe which has recently given birth to twins, Toad Hall, Bransdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • North York Moors hill farmer, Sarah Dunn feeds a pet lamb with a bottle of milk, Breck House Farm, Bransdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • A North York Moors hill farmer carries a Scotch Black Face lamb, Box Hall (farm), Castleton, North Yorkshire; UK
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  • Brenda Harding, a North York Moors hill farmer holds 2 glass bottles of milk, Castleton, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Hill farmers showing their Herdwick lambs at Borrowdale Shepherds Meet in Rosthwaite village, Cumbria on 16 September 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Hill farmer, Ron Foster holds his hand out to a British White cow, a rare breed of cattle at his farm in Rosedale on the North York Moors, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • A hill farmer's wellies and waterproofs outside the farmhouse door, Bransdale, North York Moors, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Portrait of hill farmer Roy Biggins holding a newly clipped fleece at his farm in Lastingham, North York Moors, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • James, son of Bransdale hill farmer Tim Dunn shows a Swaledale lamb at Farndale Show, North York Moors, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Hill farmer, Derek Dowkes shows a Swaledale tup (ram) at Farndale Show, North York Moors, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Hill farmer, George Allison gathering sheep up on the North York Moors in Bilsdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Hill farmers showing their Herdwick ewes at Borrowdale Shepherds Meet in Rosthwaite village, Cumbria on 16 September 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Portrait of William Woods, hill farmer, working in the hayfield, Bilsdale, North York Moors, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • A North York Moors hill farmer shows his Swaledale tup (ram) at Farndale Show, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Tim Dunn a North York Moors hill farmer shows his Swaledale tup (ram) at Farndale Show, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Tim Dunn a North York Moors hill farmer shows his Swaledale tup (ram) at Farndale Show, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Son of Bransdale hill farmer Robert Myers shows a Texel ewe at Farndale Show, North York Moors, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • A hill farmers hands after preparing her sheep for showing by applying a mixture of ingredients including peat onto the fleece, Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Two hill farmers loading a Swaledale ewe and her lamb into a trailer, Breck House (farm), Bransdale, North York Moors, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Farmer's wife, Doreen Whitaker making mince pies for Christmas at Wood End farm, Dunsop Bridge, Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, UK
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  • Exmoor hill farmers son, Richard Hawkins holds a cage of ferrets at Warren Farm, Exmoor, Somerset, UK. Warren Farm is known as the most isolated farm on Exmoor.
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  • Farmer Gerald Todd and galloway cow 'Queenie' at his farm in Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Closeup of Swaledale sheep's nose on a North York Moors hill farm, Bransdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Hill farmer Peter Binnington, goes to pick up a newborn Swaledale lamb, Brandwith Howe (farm), Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • A hill farmer dips his Swaledale sheep for maggots and sheep scab, Gouthwaite Farm, Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Hill farmer, John Rayner holds cottongrass known locally as 'moss crops' in his hand on the Moor in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Hill farmer, John Rayner feeds a pet Swaledale lamb at his farm in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK.
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  • Hill farmer Sylvia Binnington hand clips her sheep, Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Hill farmer  John Rayner and two of his sons, wearing flat caps, mark Swaledale lambs at Gouthwaite Farm, Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK. Every lamb needs to be marked with the farmers individual mark as the sheep run wild on the Moor.
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  • Wrapping the fleece after shearing Swaledale sheep at Lodge Moor Pens, Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Exmoor hill farmer's son Giles Hawkins grooms his horses tail with a brush at Warren Farm, Simonsbath, Somerset, UK
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  • Exmoor hill farmer's son Giles Hawkins grooms his horse with a brush at Warren Farm, Simonsbath, Somerset, UK
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  • Herdwick sheep at Buttermere Shepherds Meet in Cumbria on 28 October 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations
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  • Herdwick sheep at Buttermere Shepherds Meet in Cumbria on 28 October 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations
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  • Herdwick sheep at Buttermere Shepherds Meet in Cumbria on 28 October 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations
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  • The judge checks the teeth of a Swaledale sheep at Farndale Show on 28th August 2017 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Farndale Show is a small traditional agricultural show in the heart of the North York Moors photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • A Swaledale ewe and lamb standing in the road near Breck House farm, Bransdale, North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire, UK.
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  • A farmer in a telehandler asks National Eviction Team bailiffs working on behalf of HS2 Ltd for clarification as to why they are erecting a fence across his field during the eviction of anti-HS2 activists from a wildlife protection camp in ancient woodland at Jones’ Hill Wood alongside the field on 1 October 2020 in Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom. Around 40 environmental activists and local residents, some of whom living in makeshift tree houses about 60 feet above the ground, were present during the evictions at Jones’ Hill Wood which had served as one of several protest camps set up along the route of the £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in order to resist the controversial infrastructure project.
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  • A farmer in a telehandler asks National Eviction Team bailiffs working on behalf of HS2 Ltd for clarification as to why they are erecting a fence across his field during the eviction of anti-HS2 activists from a wildlife protection camp in ancient woodland at Jones’ Hill Wood alongside the field on 1 October 2020 in Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom. Around 40 environmental activists and local residents, some of whom living in makeshift tree houses about 60 feet above the ground, were present during the evictions at Jones’ Hill Wood which had served as one of several protest camps set up along the route of the £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in order to resist the controversial infrastructure project.
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  • A farmer in a telehandler asks National Eviction Team bailiffs working on behalf of HS2 Ltd for clarification as to why they are erecting a fence across his field during the eviction of anti-HS2 activists from a wildlife protection camp in ancient woodland at Jones’ Hill Wood alongside the field on 1 October 2020 in Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom. Around 40 environmental activists and local residents, some of whom living in makeshift tree houses about 60 feet above the ground, were present during the evictions at Jones’ Hill Wood which had served as one of several protest camps set up along the route of the £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in order to resist the controversial infrastructure project.
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  • A National Eviction Team bailiff obstructs the photographer’s camera as a farmer in a telehandler positioned on land not compulsorily purchased by HS2 Ltd asks for clarification as to why a fence is being erected across his field during the eviction of anti-HS2 activists from a wildlife protection camp in ancient woodland at Jones’ Hill Wood alongside the field on 1 October 2020 in Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom. Around 40 environmental activists and local residents, some of whom living in makeshift tree houses, were present during the evictions at Jones’ Hill Wood which had served as one of several protest camps set up along the route of the £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in order to resist the controversial infrastructure project.
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  • A farmer in a telehandler asks National Eviction Team bailiffs working on behalf of HS2 Ltd for clarification as to why they are erecting a fence across his field during the eviction of anti-HS2 activists from a wildlife protection camp in ancient woodland at Jones’ Hill Wood alongside the field on 1 October 2020 in Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom. Around 40 environmental activists and local residents, some of whom living in makeshift tree houses about 60 feet above the ground, were present during the evictions at Jones’ Hill Wood which had served as one of several protest camps set up along the route of the £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in order to resist the controversial infrastructure project.
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  • A Phunoi ethnic minority subsistence farmer accompanied by her young son clears her land by slashing and burning to grow hill rice and coffee as a cash crop in Ban Sinesai; Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation. The practise is gradually being taken over by the planting of permanent cash crops such as coffee.
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  • A Phunoi ethnic minority subsistence farmer clears her land by slashing and burning to grow hill rice and coffee as a cash crop in Ban Sinesai; Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation. The practise is gradually being taken over by the planting of permanent cash crops such as coffee.
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  • Farmer standing in his field in the agricultural landscape of Cotabato province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. In the Philippines climate change is contributing to an increase in the frequency and intensity of typhoons as well as a general rise in temperatures and rain leading to an increase in droughts, flash floods and landslides. This is having a huge impact on smallholder farmers who depend on one cash crop leaving them vulnerable to any changes in weather patterns. If their crops fail they are left with no other source of income for that year. In central Mindanao Oxfam is working with local partners and governments to increase awareness of climate change in poor communities and reduce the risks it creates to vulnerable farmers by supporting them in crop diversification.
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  • A farmer holds a dead greylag goose which he has shot at his farm in Dalvik, Iceland
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  • The snow has made driving difficult and a truck is pulled free out of the snow on 14th of January 2021 in Stow, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom. The snow has been falling all night and morning and the landscape is covered in the first real snow of the year. The truck had to slow down in the village of Stow and got stuck in the ice and snow coming out of the village. A nearby farmer came to the rescue and pulled the truck free and up the small hill.
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  • The snow has made driving difficult and a truck is pulled free out of the snow on 14th of January 2021 in Stow, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom. The snow has been falling all night and morning and the landscape is covered in the first real snow of the year. The truck had to slow down in the village of Stow and got stuck in the ice and snow coming out of the village. A nearby farmer came to the rescue and pulled the truck free and up the small hill.
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  • The snow has made driving difficult and a truck is pulled free out of the snow on 14th of January 2021 in Stow, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom. The snow has been falling all night and morning and the landscape is covered in the first real snow of the year. The truck had to slow down in the village of Stow and got stuck in the ice and snow coming out of the village. A nearby farmer came to the rescue and pulled the truck free and up the small hill.
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  • An Akha Nuquie subsistence farmer wearing her traditional clothing pauses whilst scoring illegally grown opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • An Akha Nuquie subsistence farmer wearing her traditional clothing scores illegally grown opium poppies using a 4 bladed tool in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • An Akha Nuquie subsistence farmer wearing her traditional clothing scores illegally grown opium poppies using a 4 bladed tool in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • An Akha subsistence farmer scrapes resin from an illegally grown opium poppy head into a metal container in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • An Akha Nuquie subsistence farmer wearing her traditional clothing scores illegally grown opium poppies using a 4 bladed tool in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • An Akha Nuquie subsistence farmer wearing her traditional clothing pauses whilst scoring illegally grown opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • An Akha Nuquie subsistence farmer wearing her traditional clothing scores illegally grown opium poppies using a 4 bladed tool in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • An Akha Nuquie subsistence farmer wearing her traditional clothing scores illegally grown opium poppies using a 4 bladed tool in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • An Akha Nuquie subsistence farmer wearing her traditional clothing scores illegally grown opium poppies using a 4 bladed tool in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • A farmer walks to market in the early morning mist surrounded by the beautiful Ugandan countryside along the Kisoro Road in the Kabale region of Uganda.
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  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
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  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
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  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
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  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
    A0016447cc_1.jpg
  • An Akha subsistence farmer scores opium poppies in an upland field in remote Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. After the petals fall from the opium poppy, the heads are incised with a 4 bladed tool; the tool is used to score the skin lightly from top to bottom. During the day, the sap oozes out of the cuts and hangs in tears on the poppy head. The next day the sap is then scraped into a metal container. As recently as 1998, Lao PDR was the third largest illicit opium poppy producer in the world.  From 1998 to 2005, opium poppy cultivation in Lao PDR was reduced by 93 per cent.  In more remote areas where cash crops are not viable, surveys from UNODC have shown that between 2008 and 2011 the area under opium poppy cultivation has doubled and continues to rise.
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  • The son of an Akha subsistence farmer plays in an illegal opium poppy field in Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.
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  • Smoke billows out from a building hidden in the side of a wooded hill above a large paddy field near Nongpoh, Ri-Bhoi district on 20th September 2018 in Meghalaya, India.
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  • A White Hmong ethnic minority woman taking a break from collecting the harvested glutinous rice on an upland field, Ban Hauywai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Compared to more modern sedentary lowland farmers, shifting cultivators generally use much fewer purchased inputs.  The main inputs are family labour, hand tools and seeds. Purchased fertilisers are never used on sloping land.
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  • A pregnant White Hmong ethnic minority woman harvesting glutinous rice using a sickle, on an upland field, Ban Hauywai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Compared to more modern sedentary lowland farmers, shifting cultivators generally use much fewer purchased inputs.  The main inputs are family labour, hand tools and seeds. Purchased fertilisers are never used on sloping land.
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  • A White Hmong ethnic minority woman wearing her traditional clothing harvesting glutinous rice using a sickle, on an upland field, Ban Hauywai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Compared to more modern sedentary lowland farmers, shifting cultivators generally use much fewer purchased inputs.  The main inputs are family labour, hand tools and seeds. Purchased fertilisers are never used on sloping land.
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  • A young Akha Pouli ethnic minority woman harvesting glutinous rice using a sickle, on an upland field, Ban Pichermai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Compared to more modern sedentary lowland farmers, shifting cultivators generally use much fewer purchased inputs.  The main inputs are family labour, hand tools and seeds. Purchased fertilisers are never used on sloping land.
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  • A White Hmong ethnic minority family take a break from collecting the harvested glutinous rice on an upland field, Ban Hauywai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Compared to more modern sedentary lowland farmers, shifting cultivators generally use much fewer purchased inputs.  The main inputs are family labour, hand tools and seeds. Purchased fertilisers are never used on sloping land.
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  • A White Hmong ethnic minority woman harvesting glutinous rice using a sickle, on an upland field, Ban Hauywai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Compared to more modern sedentary lowland farmers, shifting cultivators generally use much fewer purchased inputs.  The main inputs are family labour, hand tools and seeds. Purchased fertilisers are never used on sloping land.
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  • A White Hmong ethnic minority woman harvesting glutinous rice using a sickle, on an upland field, Ban Hauywai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Compared to more modern sedentary lowland farmers, shifting cultivators generally use much fewer purchased inputs.  The main inputs are family labour, hand tools and seeds. Purchased fertilisers are never used on sloping land.
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  • A pregnant White Hmong ethnic minority woman harvesting glutinous rice using a sickle, on an upland field, Ban Hauywai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Compared to more modern sedentary lowland farmers, shifting cultivators generally use much fewer purchased inputs.  The main inputs are family labour, hand tools and seeds. Purchased fertilisers are never used on sloping land.
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  • A young Akha Pouli ethnic minority woman harvesting glutinous rice using a sickle, on an upland field, Ban Pichermai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Compared to more modern sedentary lowland farmers, shifting cultivators generally use much fewer purchased inputs.  The main inputs are family labour, hand tools and seeds. Purchased fertilisers are never used on sloping land.
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  • A young Akha Pouli ethnic minority woman harvesting glutinous rice using a sickle, on an upland field, Ban Pichermai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Compared to more modern sedentary lowland farmers, shifting cultivators generally use much fewer purchased inputs.  The main inputs are family labour, hand tools and seeds. Purchased fertilisers are never used on sloping land.
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  • A traditional rice cutting tool used by a White Hmong ethnic minority man harvesting glutinous rice on an upland field, Ban Hauywai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR.  Compared to more modern sedentary lowland farmers, shifting cultivators generally use much fewer purchased inputs.  The main inputs are family labour, hand tools and seeds. Purchased fertilisers are never used on sloping land.
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  • After drying on the upland field for several days, an Akha Cherpia ethnic minority woman threshes the rice sheaves with a wooden threshing tool to remove the grain before carrying back to the village in sacks.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • After drying on the upland field for several days, an Akha Cherpia family thresh the rice sheaves to remove the grain which will then be put into sacks and carried back to the village. Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • After drying on the upland field for several days, an Akha Cherpia ethnic minority man threshes the rice sheaves with a wooden threshing tool to remove the grain before carrying it back to the village in sacks.  Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation.
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  • A Hmong woman checking her rice whilst harvesting 'khao kam' (brown sticky rice) in the village of Ban Chalern, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Slash and burn cultivation or ‘hai’ in Lao PDR consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser. Shifting cultivation practices, although remarkably sustainable and adapted to their environment in the past, have come under increasing stress in recent decades and are now starting to be a major problem in Lao PDR, causing widespread deforestation and watershed degradation. The remote and roadless village of Ban Chalern is situated along  Nam Ou river and will be relocated due to the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Project Dam 7.
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