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  • Portrait of a Tai Yang ethnic minority subsistence farmer harvesting lemongrass from her garden, Ban Long Nai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Besides rice, Lao farmers also grow a variety of other food crops to supplement their diet. In addition to vegetables grown in the fields alongside the rice, subsistence farmers often have a garden nearby the house where they grow other edible greens such as beans, squashes, onion, garlic, ginger and aromatic herbs.
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  • Wearing a traditional bamboo basket for carrying her seeds, a Tai Dam ethnic minority woman plants maize, Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. Besides rice, Lao subsistence farmers also grow a variety of other food crops to supplement their diet. Maize is usually grown for feeding livestock or as a cash crop.
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  • Wearing a traditional bamboo basket on her back, a Hmong ethnic minority woman picks a Mak Sida vegetable from her garden. In addition to growing upland rice and to supplement their income, subsistence farmers in Ban Long Lan also grow a variety of vegetables for selling to the markets in Luang Prabang. The buyers make the journey every day to buy vegetables directly from the villagers and transport them to the markets.
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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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  • 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 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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  • An elderly subsistence farmer carries a basket full of nettles for making soup and a sickle in the churchyard in Botiza, Maramures, Romania
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  • A subsistence farmer's hand holding freshly milled maize in Sieu, Maramures, Romania. The farmers bring their products to the village mill and pay the owner in kind with part of the produce.
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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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  • A subsistence farmer holds sweet pepper seedlings wrapped in newspaper purchased from Bogdan Voda market, Maramures, Romania
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  • An Apatani tribal man walks through the rows of bamboo huts on stilts in the 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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  • Apatani tribal elders Atta Yadd and her husband Ba Khang wake up in the early morning, freshen up on the raised bamboo platform of  their one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut, sleeping on mats in the center close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the 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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  • An Apatani tribal woman walks through the rows of bamboo huts on stilts in the 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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  • Apatani tribal elder Atta Yadd  and her young neighbours sit have tea and warm up beside the fire after a hard day's work in rice and bamboo fields. They sleep and live in their one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut, sleeping on mats in the center close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the 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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  • 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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  • Apatani tribal elders Atta Yadd and her husband Ba Khang cut bamboo  in the forests surrounding their 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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  • An Apatani tribal woman walks through the rows of bamboo huts on stilts in the 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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  • 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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  • Apatani tribal elder Atta Yadd  returns home after having  cut bamboo in the forests surrounding their 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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  • An Apatani tribal man walks through the rows of bamboo huts on stilts in the 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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  • Apatani tribal elders Atta Yadd and her husband Ba Khang wake up in the early morning, freshen up on the raised bamboo platform of  their one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut, sleeping on mats in the center close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the 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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  • An elderly woman wearing traditional footwear (opinci) spins wool by hand outside her home, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Traditionally subsistence farmers In Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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  • A Khmu woman bashes riverweed collected from the stream on a rock, Ban Borhat, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • Banana plantation, Luang Namtha province, Lao PDR. In the far north of Lao PDR, along the border with China, ‘The Corridor of Opportunity’ refers specifically to an area where the evolving cash economy influenced by China is gradually replacing subsistence agriculture.  Vast swathes of the forest are being replaced by cash crops such as rubber, banana and sugar cane.
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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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  • A peasant women wearing a traditional sheepskin waistcoat and flowery apron holds a ball of black wool, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Traditionally subsistence farmers in Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
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  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
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  • An Akha Ya-er woman from Ban Houay Phod, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR collects crustaceans from under the rocks using a net in the Nam Pa river (a tributary of the Nam Ou) in Pak Nam Noi. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • Tan, a Tai Lue ethnic minority man holds a fish he has caught in the river and then smoked over an open fire, Ban Bo Ha village, Luang Prabang province, Lao PDR.  For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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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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  • 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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  • A young Tai Lue boy goes fishing in the Nam Lan river, Ban Nawai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. He wears a bamboo basket for keeping the small fish he catches and a diving mask over his eyes. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • An Akha Ya-er woman and her daughter from Ban Houay Phod, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR collect crustaceans from under the rocks with a net in the Nam Pa river (a tributary of the Nam Ou) in Pak Nam Noi. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • A roadside stall selling mushrooms gathered from the forests in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania. Foraging for wild food is an important part of the subsistence farmers way of life and they know where to find different items in the fields and forests around the village.
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  • An elderly Romanian peasant holds a spindle of wool spun from her own sheep, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Traditionally subsistence farmers In Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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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 young Akha Pouli boy from Ban Picherkao with a bird he has caught with a trap, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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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.
    A0016635cc_1.jpg
  • An Akha Ya-er woman and her daughter from Ban Houay Phod, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR collect crustaceans from under the rocks with a net in the Nam Pa river (a tributary of the Nam Ou) in Pak Nam Noi. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • Nguan, a Tai Dam ethnic minority woman forages for vegetables in the rice field, Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • Tan, a Tai Lue ethnic minority man prepares his rods for fishing in the river nearby Ban Bo Ha village, Luang Prabang province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • An elderly Tai Dam woman returns from foraging in the forest with a Mak Kouk fruit wrapped in banana leaves. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
    A0016890cc_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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  • A woman collects riverweed from under the rocks in the Nam Pa river (a tributary of the Nam Ou) in Pak Nam Noi, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. The riverweed will later be washed, dried and eaten or sold at the market in Pak Nam Noi. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • A young Tai Lue boy goes fishing in the Nam Lan river, Ban Nawai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. He wears a bamboo basket for keeping the small fish he catches and a diving mask over his eyes. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
    A0019124cc_1.jpg
  • A Romanian peasant farmer prepares mushrooms she has collected from the forest, Glod, Maramures, Romania. Foraging for wild food is an important part of the subsistence farmers way of life and they know where to find different items in the fields and forests around the village.
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  • An elderly woman knits woollen socks whilst walking down the street in Sieu, Maramures, Romania. Traditionally subsistence farmers In Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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  • An elderly Laoseng ethnic minority woman and her grand-daughter prepare river weed collected from the Nam Ou river, Ban Moungava, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • A young Laoseng ethnic minority girl prepares river weed collected from the Nam Ou river, Ban Moungava, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • A selection of vegetables in an Akha Pouli ethnic minority home in Ban Picherkao, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Besides rice, Lao farmers also grow a variety of other food crops to supplement their diet. In addition to vegetables grown in the fields alongside the rice, subsistence farmers often have a garden nearby the house where they grow other edible greens such as beans, squashes, onion, garlic, ginger and aromatic herbs.
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  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
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  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
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  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman harvests tea leaves, Ban Nam Thuan, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Rural communities are being impelled to move from swidden to sedentary agriculture and many subsistence farmers are turning to the cultivation of cash crops such as tea.
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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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  • In the mangroves that surround the village of Palma Real impoverished resident subsist on musseling for Crabs, Ecuador.
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  • In the village of Palma Real, bordering Colombia,  poor residents live a life subsisting on fishing and mussling in the local river. All the resident are unusually black, Ecuador.
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  • A typical Lao rural landscape with rice fields and forests in Xieng Khouang Province, Lao PDR.
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  • Hmong ethnic minority woman in Ban Nam Puong harvesting paddy rice with a sickle, Vientiane province, Lao PDR
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  • A group of fishermen and women go out in a large banka to fish with nets, Gumacas bay, Aurora, Philippines
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  • Chang Lin and Du Mei  mill corn in their courtyard with  their Cave house in the background, Chang Qu village, Shaanxi, China
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  • Atta Yadd, an elderly Apatani tribal grandmother in her village of Hijja in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pardesh, India. The Apatani minority, one of hundreds spread across northern India are known to have come originally from nomadic Mongolian ancestry, they settled in north eastern India and now are best known for being foresters, farmers specialising in the cultivation of Bamboo.
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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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  • A native " Pansaleo" man high up in the Andes mountain range in his small farming community, near Simiatug, Ecuador
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  • Atta Yadd, an elderly Apatani tribal grandmother in her village of Hijja in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pardesh, India. The Apatani minority, one of hundreds spread across northern India are known to have come originally from nomadic Mongolian ancestry, they settled in north eastern India and now are best known for being foresters, farmers specialising in the cultivation of Bamboo. Seen here preparing a bamboo fire to warm her bamboo made hut.
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  • Atta Yadd, an elderly Apatani tribal grandmother in her village of Hijja in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pardesh, India. The Apatani minority, one of hundreds spread across northern India are known to have come originally from nomadic Mongolian ancestry, they settled in north eastern India and now are best known for being foresters, farmers specialising in the cultivation of Bamboo.
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  • A fisherman returns home after an all night fishing spree in the Sunderbans delta,  Bay of Bengal, as he reaches his mooring spot his family come out to greet him as well as give him vital additional manpower at the time of hoisting the boat to higher ground pushing and heaving through the muddy mangrove sludge, West Bengal, India
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  • Monindro Mondol throws a large fishing net into the salt waters of the Bay of Bengal, also known as the Sunderbans delta. Most inhabitants of the delta are both fisherman and rice farmers and in the case of Monindro supplements his income by offering support services to the eco tourism business on his small island of Bali, West Bengal, India
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  • Monindro Mondol sits in the front yard of his village home repairing his fishing nets in the Sundrbans delta, West Bengal, India.
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  • Farmers transport  straw on their heavily laiden bicycles, much need food for their livestock, Sonepur, Bihar, India.
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  • Fishing at dawn in Gumacas bay with the Sierra Madre mountain range visible in the background, Aurora, Philippines
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  • AGTAS (Aboriginal natives, related to  pigmies) hunt fish with home made harpoons and coconut carved goggles in Gumacas bay, Aurora, Philippines
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  • Fishing at dawn in Gumacas bay with the Sierra Madre mountain range visible in the background, Aurora, Philippines
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  • Fishermen in Gumacas bay and the Sierra Madre mountain range at dawn after having spent the whole night fishing, Aurora province, Philippines
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  • Poor cocoa workers in their spare time mill Manioc into flour with very primitive tools, bahia, Brazil
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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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  • Monindro Mondol and a fellow fisherman hall in a large net from the salt waters of the Bay of Bengal, also known as the Sunderbans delta. Most inhabitants of the delta are both fisherman and rice farmers and in the case of Monindro supplements his income by offering support services to the eco tourism business on his small island of Bali, West Bengal, India
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  • AGTAS (Aboriginal natives, related to  pigmies) hunt fish with home made harpoons and coconut carved goggles in Gumacas bay, Aurora, Philippines
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  • In a small village live  a tiny community of native (aboriginal) people known as AGTAS. Seen here is Borseg Lisiday and his wife Batangas and their extended family, Gumacas bay, Philippines
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  • Fishermen in Gumacas bay and the Sierra Madre mountain range at dawn after having spent the whole night fishing, Aurora province, Philippines
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  • Shrouded in early morning mist young "Pansaleo" native indians high in the Andeas mountain range tend to their sheep near Angamarca town, Ecuador.
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  • The cave house of farmer Chang Lin’s and family in the village of Chang Qu in northern Shaanxi province, China.
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  • A community of AGTAS (aboriginal natives, similar to pigmies walk through Busok Busok on their way to a day of fishing for crabs, in Gumacas bay, Aurora, Philippines
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  • A group of fishermen and women go out in a large banka to fish with nets, Gumacas bay, Aurora, Philippines
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  • Native indian farmers riding on donkeys  through the town of Angamarca heading for the market, Ecuador.
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  • Chang Lin goes out to collect sunflower crop from near by fields, Chang Qu village, Shaanxi, China.
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  • Atta Yadd, an elderly Apatani tribal grandmother in her village of Hijja in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pardesh, India. The Apatani minority, one of hundreds spread across northern India are known to have come originally from nomadic Mongolian ancestry, they settled in north eastern India and now are best known for being foresters, farmers specialising in the cultivation of Bamboo.
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  • Chang Lin and Du Mei  mill corn in their courtyard with  their Cave house in the background, Chang Qu village, Shaanxi, China
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  • Monindro Mondol and a fellow fisherman hall in a large net from the salt waters of the Bay of Bengal, also known as the Sunderbans delta. Most inhabitants of the delta are both fisherman and rice farmers and in the case of Monindro supplements his income by offering support services to the eco tourism business on his small island of Bali, West Bengal, India
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  • Typical landscape view of Houaphan province with bamboo forests and swidden rice fields, Lao PDR. The terrain of Houaphan province is rugged, with dense mountainous forest forming much of the province, particularly on the western side bordering Vietnam. Bamboo is important in rural parts of the province and used as a principal building material and the women collect bamboo shoots both for food and for sale. In Viengxay district there are two bamboo processing factories which produce items such as floormats, fences, chopsticks and toothpicks for the Vietnamese market.
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  • Wearing her traditional headwear, an elderly Akha Cherpia woman feeds her ducks with rice in Ban Cha Wang, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR.
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