Agricultural Labor in Africa

Authentic glimpses of agricultural activities in West Africa, highlighting mudbrick production, fish markets, and bean seeding practices by local workers.

Cleaning and gutting of fish on the fish market in Awasa, Ethiopia. Africa, Ethiopia

The mudbrick production in the Bandiagara area in Mali, West Africa: water, straw, and wet dirt (clay) is being mixed.

Cleaning and gutting of fish on the fish market in Awasa, Ethiopia. Africa, Ethiopia

Seeding beans after harvest in Lobogo, Benin.

Seeding beans after harvest in Lobogo, Benin.

Seeding beans after harvest in Lobogo, Benin.

Seeding beans after harvest in Lobogo, Benin.

Threshing of rice with a curse in Banankoroni Mali

The Dawanau Market, Kano, Nigeria.

Seeding beans after harvest in Lobogo, Benin.

Coffee (Coffea sp.) crop, boys filling potting bags with soil, ready to plant seedlings in, Rwanda

Gambia, People, Work, Men Building Rural School.

Seeding beans after harvest in Lobogo, Benin.

Women working on the road maintenance project in rural area outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh. (NGO Restrictions May Apply)

People Unloading A Barge Of Sand With Baskets, Dhaka, Bangladesh

small rattan workshop-shop Warakapola, Sri Lanka. 10 february 2023. small rattan workshop-shop where they make furniture and baskets from calamus palm branch vine. People and their work in focus. Copyright: xZoonar.com/ELENxMARLENx 21136620

India, Rajasthan. In the countryside life continues as it has for centuries with a cattle powered water pump providing the brute force for a farmer to irrigate of his fields and crops.

Potter at work in Kpalime, Togo, West Africa, Africa

Seeding beans after harvest in Lobogo, Benin.

Worker making clay bricks in a village near Lake Albert, Uganda

Man sawing a calabash Dialabougou Mali

Hindustani Rice Farmers, Suriname

Man debarking logs in Trinidad, Cuba

HARVESTING COFFEE, CAMEROON. SW Province, Mount Kupe - Nyasoso. Coffee being harvested. . Coffee is grown as a cash crop on exhausted land.

Diamond hunters searching for diamonds in a mine with sieves, near Koidu, Koidu-Sefadu, Kono District, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone, Africa

Indian family forming bricks made from mud clay at Khore Bricks Factory, Rajasthan, Northern India

A shipwright drills a hole to repair a wooden sailing boat at Faza on Pate Island. The centuries old technology of the bow drill he uses is ideal for places where there is no electricity. The chequered history of Faza dates back several hundred years.

Seeding beans after harvest in Lobogo, Benin.

India, Uttar Pradesh, Mirzapur a couple threshing wheat in a field

Male and female workers are breaking LC stones with a crusher machine in Bholaganj area, known as the 'Stone State' of Sylhet Companyganj Upazila. These workers whose health is at risk, earn 500-600 taka at the end of the day. Around 2000 workers are employed in more than two hundred crusher machines, and stones worth 3-5 crore rupees are broken every day. Sylhet-Bangladesh.

Child workers working on a building site in Benin.

Locals dry carpenter fish in the sun to sell as animal feed; Kyehoro, Uganda

Labourers packing the dried groundnuts on road near Neyveli, Vadalur, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

Bean harvest in Lobogo, Benin.

Houses of out of wood been made. The slum of Duari Para in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, home to mainly climate migrants from the southern countryside where they have suffered the effects of climate change: rising water levels, soil erosion and salinisation. Bangladesh.

Agricultural worker in local dress. Indian Landscapes, na, India. Architect: na , 2020.

Seeding beans after harvest in Lobogo, Benin.

Processing latex rubber from the collection tray into a bucket. Sri Lanka

Some tobacco workers trying to flat some tobacco ballots on the Bukanga market west of Uganda

The mudbrick production in the Bandiagara area in Mali, West Africa: straw is being mixed into the wet dirt (clay).

Farmer using a well in Savanes province, North Togo.

Workers dig a ditch in Patongo, Uganda.

A construction worker handling iron roads with his bear hands ; Ahmedabad ; Gujarat ; India

Traditional brickmaking under the warm sun.

Laborers working with tools among bricks in a dusty environment during early light

Coffee washing station in Kivu, western province, Rwanda.

Local produces bricks, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Wheat Harvest Dhain village, Hoshangabad District, near Satpura Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India, Asia Date:

Men tip sugar cane pulp into a drum for boiling with water as the first stage to making rum using a crude open-air still.

Peanut Farmers. Bagan. Myanmar.

Men building walls with boulders to prevent erosion on deforested slopes, Riviere Froide, Ouest Department, Haiti, Central America

AGRICULTURE, INDIA. Andhra Pradesh, Chittoor District, Rishi Valley. Milking Cows. .

Sudan, Farming, Dinka Man Tending Maize And Other Crops.

Africa, Madagascar, Nosy Be. Market and sugar cane.

A worker is reusing scrap metal in Bamako, the capital and largest city of Mali.

Minjibir, Nigeria - 27 May 2025: View of a man weaving vibrant pink threads on a traditional loom in Gidan Gabas village, under the bright sky.

Village potter forming hand made clay pot on potter´s wheel spinning in his village workshop, near Rayagada, Orissa, India, Asia

Man loading bricks, Tori, Benin, West Africa, Africa

Farming implements for sale with people walking in the background at the Monday Market, Djenne, Mali

Workers sorting organic rice produced in Agoutome, Benin.

Workshop where peanuts are transformed into klui klui sticks in central Benin.

Machine Harvesting rice (Oryza sativa) paddy at Thanjavur Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

Workshop where peanuts are transformed into klui klui sticks in central Benin.

Man making mud bricks to build a house, Rwanda, Africa

Peanut pickers Peanut pickers in country, Seine de Saloium, Senegal, November 2012 Copyright: xZoonar.com/MassimoxLamax 7287541

Abakundakawa coffee grower's cooperative, Minazi coffee washing station, Gakenke district, Rwanda.

close up countryside worker checking soil

Men use chainsaws and heavy equipment to cut large trees in the miombo woodland that forms a buffer zone around Gorongosa National Park; Mozambique

Minjibir, Nigeria - 27 May 2025: View of a weaver diligently working at his loom in Gidan Gabas village, crafting textiles under the shade of a makeshift shelter.

Farmer working on agricultural land, Marathwada, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Cape Coast, Elmina. People working on fishing boats.

Muslim shipwrights build a small felucca (a wooden sailing boat used on the Nile in Sudan and Egypt) in the open-air close to the Nile in Omdurman.

Argungu, Nigeria - 12 February 2026: View of people loading spherical objects onto a truck, their colorful clothes contrasting with the muted tones of the cargo and the bright sky.

Farmers packing the dried groundnuts on road near Neyveli, Vadalur, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

A worker handing over a brick at the brick factory in a village of Sangli, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Dinka man stands on an old truck tire while thatching his hut near Malakal in southern Sudan.

Man loading bricks, Benin,10/21/2011

Nigeria, Kano, Workers Building Pyramids From Sacks Of Groundnuts.

Raphael Machinjili, a sculptor at Tafara Mabvuku Arts Association is seen working on his stone roses. Zimbabwe.

Abakundakawa coffee grower's cooperative, Minazi coffee washing station, Gakenke district, Rwanda.

rope making, tamil nadu, india Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Salt extraction, workers mining salt, Dallol, Danakil Desert, Ethiopia, Africa

African Master woodcarver at work Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania. 27 March 2018. Master woodcarver at work. Wood shavings, gouges and chisels on the workbench. Close up. Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlenaxHuhnx 20726129

PAPUA NEW GUINEA, SEPIK RIVER, MAN SPLITTING SAGO PALM TRUNK WITH TRADITIONAL TOOL

Indonesia, South Kalimantan, Cempaka. A man pans for diamonds and gold at a small-scale traditional diamond mine.

Steve Gutierrez, a worker with Veterans Green Jobs, installs insulation in the crawl space below a mobile home; the organization does weatherization in the homes of low-income residents of the San Luis Valley, Fort Garland, Colorado, USA.

Sugar cane cutter in the burned sugar cane fields, Nchalo, Malawi, Africa

Man making pots on wheel, Dilwara, Rajasthan, India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Abakundakawa coffee grower's cooperative, Minazi coffee washing station, Gakenke district, Rwanda

Villagers making palm oil in Dokoue, Benin

Weighing of Organic Cotton in Maharashtra India

Women sorting processed coffee in a dry mill in Kivu, western province, Rwanda.

Group of road workers

Incense farmer Mohammed harvesting incense, Madar Moge, Sanaag, Somaliland

Salt worker working on Lake Kasenyi, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kasenyi, Uganda, Africa

India, Rajasthan. In the countryside life continues as it has for centuries with a cattle pulled water pump providing the brute force for a farmers irrigation of his land

Smith in Burkina Blacksmith in village of Burkina Faso, Africa Copyright: xZoonar.com/MassimoxLamax 8671342

India, Tamil Nadu, Barefooted Young Woman Carrying Large Stack Of Bricks At Brick Works.

Africa, Cameroon, Tiko. Hand washing station at banana factory.

A traditional oval-shaped granary being made from brushwood bound with strips of bark on the side of the road to Oshakati.

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