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  • A woman wearing a conical hat harvesting paddy rice in Phu Vinh village, Ha Tay province, Vietnam.
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  • Freshly harvested rice in the field in Chimi Lhakhang village, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • A Bhutanese farmer winnows rice in the field after harvesting, Chimi Lhakhang, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • A rice field of TDK8 improved variety which matures quicker than the traditional varieties, Namai village, Feung district, Vientiane province, Laos. The 210-year-old village, home to 878 people, has changed significantly over the past 15 years, with the arrival of a paved road, electricity and clean drinking water. But alongside this welcome progress climate change has brought unprecedented and unpredictable new weather patterns, disrupting harvests and lifestyles in this farming-dependent community.
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  • Farmers Somvang and Bounthit Inthavong weeding their rice field in Tao Than village, Vientiane Lao PDR. They produce organic brown sticky rice, various kinds of bamboo, and fruit and vegetables including green beans, morning glory, lemons and mangos. This area has been hard hit by climate change over recent years and the farming-dependent family is feeling the effects.
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  • Bhutanese farmers winnow rice in the field after harvesting, Chimi Lhakhang, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • A Bhutanese farmer winnows rice in the field after harvesting, Chimi Lhakhang, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • A Bhutanese farmer winnows rice in the field after harvesting, Chimi Lhakhang, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • A Bhutanese farmer winnows rice in the field after harvesting in Gangthramo village, near Punakha, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • Portrait of farmer Bounthit Inthavong (59) in her rice field in Tao Than village, Vientiane Lao PDR. Bounthit and her husband Somvang (60) produce organic brown sticky rice, various kinds of bamboo, and fruit and vegetables including green beans, morning glory, lemons and mangos. This area has been hard hit by climate change over recent years and the farming-dependent family is feeling the effects.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares holds a bamboo basket of hand milled SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares prepares to hand mill SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Rice seeds planted in an upland rice field in the Khmu ethnic minority village of Ban Lad Kok, Luang Prabang province, Lao PDR. In slash and burn cultivation, the man walks around the land with a big stick making small indentations in the soil. The woman follows behind throwing from quite a height and with incredible precision, a handful of rice into the hole.  When it next rains the soil will wash into the hole and cover the rice.
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  • The rice stems are cut and let dry for 3 to 5 days in the upland fields, Ban Pichermai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. On the northern uplands of Laos alone, farmers are said to grow more than 500 different varieties of glutinous rice.  Such seed biodiversity testifies to the continued vibrancy of Laos’ traditional subsistence rice culture which relies more on indigenous seeds rather than on a few high-yielding hybrid varieties favoured by rice exporting countries like Thailand and Vietnam.
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  • A wooden cross standing in a paddy rice field in the ethnic Kayan village of Lo Pu, Kayah State, Myanmar on 16th November 2016. In Catholic villages farmers erect wooden crosses two or three weeks before harvest to pray for more grains
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  • A Bhutanese farmer winnows rice in the field after harvesting, Chimi Lhakhang, Bhutan. A staple food of the Bhutanese people, red rice cultivation is declining due to the import of white rice from India.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares polishes his hand milled SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares polishes his hand milled SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares holds a bamboo basket of hand milled SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares hand mills SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares hand mills SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Farmer Gary Castanares prepares to hand mill SRI rice at home in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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  • Preparing to hand mill SRI rice in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Farmer Gary Castanares attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming. Hand milling rice retains all of the vitamins and minerals and tastes better but it is very labour intensive.
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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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  • Rice padi fields in the Sideman valley in Bali on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Sidemen is a small valley in eastern Bali and is known in particualr for its agriculture, with rice being the main crop grown.
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  • Rice padi fields in the Sideman valley in Bali on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Sidemen is a small valley in eastern Bali and is known in particualr for its agriculture, with rice being the main crop grown.
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  • Rice padi fields in the Sideman valley in Bali on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Sidemen is a small valley in eastern Bali and is known in particualr for its agriculture, with rice being the main crop grown.
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  • Rice padi fields in the Sideman valley in Bali on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Sidemen is a small valley in eastern Bali and is known in particualr for its agriculture, with rice being the main crop grown.
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  • Rice padi fields in the Sideman valley in Bali on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Sidemen is a small valley in eastern Bali and is known in particualr for its agriculture, with rice being the main crop grown.
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  • Upland rice harvest in the Kayaw ethnic minority village of Ya Co Pra, Kayah State, Myanmar on 21st November 2016
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  • Harvesting paddy rice in the ethnic Kayan village of Lo Pu, Kayah State, Myanmar on 16th November 2016
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  • Two Khmu ethnic minority women planting rice seeds in an upland field. In slash and burn cultivation, the man (usually) walks round the land with a big stick making small indentations in the soil. The woman follows behind throwing from quite a height and with incredible precision, a handful of rice into the hole.  When it next rains the soil will wash into the hole and cover the rice.
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  • Apatani tribal elder Atta Yadd spreads out to dry recently threshed rice in  her village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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  • A group of Apatani tribal women re-contour the bare rice fields after having been harvested. Most villagers own small plots of land which are mainly used for rice growing and usually  friends and neighbours help one another plough and till the land for the coming growing season. Hijja Village, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
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  • Harvesting rice in the ethnic Kayan village of Panpet, Kayah State, Myanmar on 14th November 2016
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  • Harvesting rice in the ethnic Kayan village of Panpet, Kayah State, Myanmar on 14th November 2016  photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • An upland rice field after burning in remote Kayah State on 22nd March 2016 in Myanamr. Slash and burn or swidden cultivation 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
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  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman with a handful of rice seeds ready to plant in an upland field. In slash and burn cultivation, the man walks round the land with a big stick making small indentations in the soil. The woman follows behind throwing from quite a height and with incredible precision, a handful of rice into the hole.  When it next rains the soil will wash into the hole and cover the rice.
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  • Two Khmu ethnic minority women planting rice seeds in an upland field. In slash and burn cultivation, the man (usually) walks round the land with a big stick making small indentations in the soil. The woman follows behind throwing from quite a height and with incredible precision, a handful of rice into the hole.  When it next rains the soil will wash into the hole and cover the rice.
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  • Two Khmu ethnic minority women planting rice seeds in an upland field. In slash and burn cultivation, the man (usually) walks round the land with a big stick making small indentations in the soil. The woman follows behind throwing from quite a height and with incredible precision, a handful of rice into the hole.  When it next rains the soil will wash into the hole and cover the rice.
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  • Apatani tribal elder Atta Yadd dries and sifts recently threshed rice in her village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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  • A group of Apatani tribal women after having re-contoured the bare rice fields return to their village  to prepare dinner. Most villagers own small plots of land which are mainly used for rice growing and usually  friends and neighbours help one another plough and till the land for the coming growing season. Hijja Village, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
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  • A group of Apatani tribal women re-contour the bare rice fields after having been harvested. Most villagers own small plots of land which are mainly used for rice growing and usually  friends and neighbours help one another plough and till the land for the coming growing season. Hijja Village, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
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  • Indian male farmers and labourers with a combine harvester working the rice fields near the ancient village of Hampi on 5th December 2009, Karnataka, India. Rice is the staple food in India and one of the key crops. Hampi is one of Indias most famous landmarks, with numerous Hindu temples from the Vijayanagara Empire. .
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  • Indian male farmers and labourers with a combine harvester working the rice fields near the ancient village of Hampi on 5th December 2009, Karnataka, India. Rice is the staple food in India and one of the key crops. Hampi is one of Indias most famous landmarks, with numerous Hindu temples from the Vijayanagara Empire. .
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  • Indian male farmers and labourers working the rice fields near the ancient village of Hampi on 5th December 2009, Karnataka, India. Rice is the staple food in India and one of the key crops. Hampi is one of Indias most famous landmarks, with numerous Hindu temples from the Vijayanagara Empire. .
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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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  • Two Phunoi women weeding an upland rice field, Ban Phou Soum, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. In swidden cultivation the rice field needs to be weeded by hand several times during the rainy season which is a very time consuming and laborious task undertaken mainly by women and children.
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  • A farmer is plowing a rice paddy on a terrace above the river in Dhading to get it ready to plant rice the traditional way using boffalos and a plow. Most farming in Nepal is done this way with hardly any machanised aid to be found anywhere in the country.
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  • Indian male farmers and labourers working the rice fields near the ancient village of Hampi on 5th December 2009, Karnataka, India. Rice is the staple food in India and one of the key crops. Hampi is one of Indias most famous landmarks, with numerous Hindu temples from the Vijayanagara Empire. .
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  • An Indian male farmer with two cows working the rice fields near the ancient village of Hampi on 5th December 2009, Karnataka, India. Rice is the staple food in India and one of the key crops. Hampi is one of Indias most famous landmarks, with numerous Hindu temples from the Vijayanagara Empire. .
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  • An Indian male farmer with two cows working the rice fields near the ancient village of Hampi on 5th December 2009, Karnataka, India. Rice is the staple food in India and one of the key crops. Hampi is one of Indias most famous landmarks, with numerous Hindu temples from the Vijayanagara Empire. .
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  • Indian male farmers and labourers with a combine harvester working the rice fields near the ancient village of Hampi on 5th December 2009, Karnataka, India. Rice is the staple food in India and one of the key crops. Hampi is one of Indias most famous landmarks, with numerous Hindu temples from the Vijayanagara Empire. .
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  • Indian male farmers and labourers with a combine harvester working the rice fields near the ancient village of Hampi on 5th December 2009, Karnataka, India. Rice is the staple food in India and one of the key crops. Hampi is one of Indias most famous landmarks, with numerous Hindu temples from the Vijayanagara Empire. .
    _MG_6084.jpg
  • Indian male farmers and labourers working the rice fields near the ancient village of Hampi on 5th December 2009, Karnataka, India. Rice is the staple food in India and one of the key crops. Hampi is one of Indias most famous landmarks, with numerous Hindu temples from the Vijayanagara Empire. .
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  • Indian male farmers and labourers with a combine harvester working the rice fields near the ancient village of Hampi on 5th December 2009, Karnataka, India. Rice is the staple food in India and one of the key crops. Hampi is one of Indias most famous landmarks, with numerous Hindu temples from the Vijayanagara Empire. .
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  • Farmer Maria Castanares separates rice from the straw in her families paddy field in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Her husband Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming.
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  • Farmer Maria Castanares whistles (to make the wind blow) whilst separating rice from the straw in her families paddy field in Daguma village, Bagaubayan, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao Island, The Philippines. Her husband Gary attended Oxfam’s field school where he learnt about SRI (System of Rice Intensification) farming.
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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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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. Bouakham Bounmavilay (48), a widow with 4 children, has worked  as a technician for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) in Xieng Khouang Province for a year. This is her first paid job.  It's MAGs policy to select from the local population  the poorest members of the community to be trained and employed as technicians. Bouakhams family has a small farm in Ban Naphia which has not yet been cleared of UXO. "My rice paddy is not completely safe but we don't have another place to grow rice", she says.
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  • Rice seedlings just planted in the flooded paddy above the Bagmati river in Dhading. Its the rainy season and time to plants rice and millet, the stable food of Nepal.
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  • Rice seedlings ready to be planted. Its the rainy season and time to plants rice and millet, the stable food of Nepal.
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  • A farmer is plowing a rice paddy on a terrace above the river in Dhading to get it ready to plant rice the traditional way using buffalos and a plow. Most farming in Nepal is done this way with hardly any machanised aid  to be found anywhere in the country.
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  • Grandmother takes care of a baby during a rice harvest in the ethnic Kayan village of Lo Pu, Kayah State, Myanmar on 16th November 2016. Kayan women traditional carry their babies in a bamboo basket until they are a year old
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  • Hani rice terraces, Honghe, Yunnan province, China. Each family has a certain number of terraces but they cannot grow enough rice to survive. Villagers help others who are working away for a 50/50 share and in that way they can just about survive.
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  • A Miao/Hmong ethnic minority woman carries a baby and a pair rice beaters on her way back from threshing rice. The People's Republic of China recognises 55 ethnic minority groups in China in addition to the Han majority. The ethnic minorities form 9.44% of mainland China and Taiwan's total population and the greatest number can be found in Yunnan Province, 34% (25 ethnic groups).
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  • In the Ko Pala village of Ban Honglerk, each family has a rice store in the village for keeping the rice for use during the coming year, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR
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  • Collecting and stacking the harvested glutinous rice in the White Hmong village of Ban Hauywai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The rice stems are cut and let dry for 3 to 5 days in the fields. If threshing has to wait for several days, until the end of the harvest, the sheaves are then put together in stacks, with the ears towards the inside, before threshing them in the field.
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  • Farmers on small islands in the Sunderbans delta, West Bengal, harvest rice, India
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  • Farmers on small islands in the Sunderbans delta, West Bengal, harvest rice, India
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  • At a Hindu wedding ceremony, bride Shweta Singhal and groom Rohit clasp each others hands with a handful of puffed rice which is then thrown into a fire as an offering to the god of fire, Agni. Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India
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  • An Akha Oma woman from Ban Na Nam village eats sunflower seeds as a snack during a break from harvesting hill rice with a sickle. Upland rice is the main crop grown by Lao shifting cultivators but several other crops including sunflowers are often grown in smaller quantities in the same plot.  Slash and burn 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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  • An agronomer discusses planting techniques to workers in organic rice fields, Costa Rica
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  • Monindro Mondol and his wife thesh rice in their front yard as the harvest seasons is in full flow, Sunderbans delta, West Bengal, India.
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  • At a Hindu wedding ceremony, bride Shweta Singhal and groom Rohit clasp each others hands with a handful of puffed rice which is then thrown into a fire as an offering to the god of fire, Agni. Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India
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  • Bright green paddy rice growing in terraces in Tetebatu village, Lombok, Indonesia
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  • A Sasak woman cleans black sticky rice outside her home in Tetebatu, Lombok, Indonesia. The predominantly Muslim Sasak people are the native inhabitants of Lombok where they form 85% of the population.
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  • A Sasak woman cleans black sticky rice outside her home in Tetebatu, Lombok, Indonesia. The predominantly Muslim Sasak people are the native inhabitants of Lombok where they form 85% of the population.
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  • A farmer wearing a handwoven kira, the Bhutanese national dress, dries rice outside her home in Richengang village near Wangdue, Western Bhutan. Despite rapid urbanisation, the majority of people, 66% of all households, still live in rural Bhutan, most dependent on the cultivation of crops and livestock breeding.
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  • Coconut sticky rice cooked in bamboo for sale at the That Luang Festival, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
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  • The villagers of Ban Mouanghoun rise early for the daily Buddhist alms giving ceremony (tak bat) donating sticky rice to the monks for their one meal of the day, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. This is an ancient, religious tradition and those who give alms earn merit for their next life. Lao Buddhists are very devout and almost every Lao man joins a monastery, or temple, for at least a short period of time. Many men also become monks for the rest of their lives. The village will be relocated due to the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower project Dam 5.
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  • A Hmong woman 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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  • A Hmong woman 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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  • The boatmen/fishermen's lunch of sticky rice and freshly caught fish cooked over an open fire for lunch alongside the Nam Ou river, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The Nam Ou river connects small riverside villages and provides the rural population with food for fishing. But this river and others like it, that are the lifeline of rural communities and local economies are being blocked, diverted and decimated by dams. The Lao government hopes to transform the country into ‘the battery of Southeast Asia’ by exporting the power to Thailand and Vietnam.
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  • A Laoseng minority woman prepares rice for cooking outside her home in the remote and roadless village of Ban Phouxoum, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Ban Phouxoum is situated along the Nam Ou river (a tributary of the Mekong) and has been temporarily relocated due to the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Project Dam 6. The Nam Ou river connects small riverside villages and provides the rural population with food for fishing. But this river and others like it, that are the lifeline of rural communities and local economies are being blocked, diverted and decimated by dams. The Lao government hopes to transform the country into ‘the battery of Southeast Asia’ by exporting the power to Thailand and Vietnam.
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  • A Laoseng minority woman prepares rice for cooking outside her home in the remote and roadless village of Ban Phouxoum, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Ban Phouxoum is situated along the Nam Ou river (a tributary of the Mekong) and has been temporarily relocated due to the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Project Dam 6. The Nam Ou river connects small riverside villages and provides the rural population with food for fishing. But this river and others like it, that are the lifeline of rural communities and local economies are being blocked, diverted and decimated by dams. The Lao government hopes to transform the country into ‘the battery of Southeast Asia’ by exporting the power to Thailand and Vietnam.
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  • A boy holds a blue bird that he has caught using a catapult in a rice field in Phu Vinh village, Ha Tay province, Vietnam. Songbirds kept in bamboo cages hanging outside houses are popular pets in Vietnam.
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  • A woman holds a bunch of rice she has harvested using a sickle in a paddy field in Phu Vinh village, Ha Tay province, Vietnam.
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  • Village market selling the materials needed to make Banh Gai, a type of rice cake in Yen So, Ha Tay province, Vietnam. With Vietnam’s growing population making less land available for farmers to work, families unable to sustain themselves are turning to the creation of various products in rural areas.  These ‘craft’ villages specialise in a single product or activity, anything from palm leaf hats to incense sticks, or from noodle making to snake-catching. Some of these ‘craft’ villages date back hundreds of years, whilst others are a more recent response to enable rural farmers to earn much needed extra income.
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  • Interior of a house in Thanh Khuc, a village specialising in making Banh Chung, a square glutinous rice cake wrapped in banana leaves, Hanoi, Vietnam. With Vietnam’s growing population making less land available for farmers to work, families unable to sustain themselves are turning to the creation of various products in rural areas.  These ‘craft’ villages specialise in a single product or activity, anything from palm leaf hats to incense sticks, or from noodle making to snake-catching. Some of these ‘craft’ villages date back hundreds of years, whilst others are a more recent response to enable rural farmers to earn much needed extra income.
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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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  • men selling rice in a stock pile of packets on a boat on the Xingu river in the Amazonian state of Para
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  • Rice paddy fields at sunrise on the road to Banteay Srei, north of Siem Reap and the main temple complex of Angkor.
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  • Rice silos on farm on 28th February 2020 in Eunice, Louisiana, United States.
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