In this photo the wives of FES staff and work crew helped to plant yams in ITTA plot. Yams are one of the staple foods in the Solomon Islanders' diet. Yams are roasted over an open fire, baked in the traditional stone oven, cooked in pot with...
This photo was taken during a tree planting event in Macuelizo, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua in 1997. I helped Macuelizo establish a tree nursery and the trees were planted around town, on farms and riverbanks, and in degraded areas. The boy planting...
This is one of a series of photos I took to document the introduction of school gardens to basic schools. Please note that the children arrived for planting day in their immaculate and crisply ironed uniforms. This was an amazing event as it...
This photo was taken in 1990 during our tree planting day. Many of these tree are now twenty feet tall or higher. The kids really felt they were doing something good for their environment.
Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture
At risk women in Finote Selam, Ethiopia are tilling and watering the garden in preparation for planting. They are given two years of communal training in gardening and then given their own plot to raise their own food.