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Local Produce, Global Community
The toil of herding, sowing and harvesting unites farmers worldwide.
Manuvel Mahenthiran clears a field to sow paddy in Adampan, Mannar district, Sri Lanka. Farmland is allocated once a year to members of farmers organizations registered with the Ministry of Agriculture.
Vetrichelvi Chandrakala,
GPJ
Sri Lanka
Tsogt-Ochir Damdin wraps flowers in plastic to prevent them from freezing in Erdenebulgan soum, Arkhangai province, Mongolia.
Odonchimeg Batsukh,
GPJ
Mongolia
Bernardo Freis, left, and his son, Willy Freis, 14, harvest cotton in the rural El Oasis farming community in Ojinaga, Mexico.
Lilette A. Contreras,
GPJ
Mexico
Perkins Nyamayaro feeds roadrunner chickens, turkeys and guinea fowls in Domboshava, Zimbabwe. Nyamayaro, who raises free-range poultry to sell, has more than 80 birds.
Gamuchirai Masiyiwa,
GPJ
Zimbabwe
Rawuthar Kowpath Umma harvests peanuts in Adampan, Mannar district, Sri Lanka. Locals can often find work in landowners’ fields during the harvest season.
Vetrichelvi Chandrakala,
GPJ
Sri Lanka
Abel Sánchez Tapia stands in his cleared land in Puebla, Mexico. He cultivates trees and native plants, supported by a government program that aims to regrow deforested areas.
Patricia Zavala Gutiérrez,
GPJ
Mexico
Mwindiki Victoire, left, and Héritier Mumbere plow a field to plant cassava in Kasando, a neighborhood in Kirumba, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Merveille Kavira Luneghe,
GPJ
Democratic Republic of Congo
Kisembo Jacques, fair trade and organic project coordinator at Semuliki Cooperative Union, a farmers union that produces and exports cacao beans, checks on drying cacao seeds in Bundibugyo, Uganda.
Patricia Lindrio,
GPJ
Uganda
From left, Munkhsugir Altaikhuu, Anudari Azjargal, 12, and Rashzeveg Altaikhuu herd goats on Zuunsaikhan mountain in Bayandalai, Umnugovi province, Mongolia.
Nansalmaa Oyunchimeg,
GPJ
Mongolia
Alan López-Portillo Barroso, an urban farmer with Xochicalli in Teotl, inspects the seeds of a cempasúchil, a native marigold that has been grown for generations in Mexico City.
Mar García,
GPJ
Mexico
Emmanuel Chabarwa siphons water from an irrigation canal to water his maize field in Buhera, Manicaland, Zimbabwe. Chabarwa says irrigating crops with river water has helped him and other community members farm year-round.
Evidence Chenjerai,
GPJ
Zimbabwe
Indira Bastola carries a basket of freshly picked tea leaves in Bahundangi, Jhapa district, Nepal.
Mayamitu Neupane,
GPJ
Nepal
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