Sustainable Agriculture Practices

Images showcasing various agricultural activities including planting, harvesting, and cultivation in diverse environments like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, and Peru.

Uganda, Mukono District. Children collect sticks from the forest near their neighborhood. (Editorial Use Only)

VIETNAM - RACH GIA - THE SPLASH OF A SEASIDE RESORT. Located west of the Mekong Delta, Rach Gia and the province of Kien Giang, of which it is the capital, are experiencing growing prosperity. This coastal city is being transformed into a large seaside resort to the point of competing with those of southern Thailand. Construction sites, construction sites, still building sites. We cut the trees along the sea to build a pretty seafront and shops. Discotheques, karaoke, restaurants and hotel complexes grow in the middle of nothing.VIETNAM - RACH GIA - LÉCLOSION DUNE STATION BALNÉAIRE. Située à lOuest du Delta du Mekong, Rach Gia et la province de Kien Giang dont elle est la capitale connaissent une prospérité grandissante. Cette ville côtière est en train de se transformer à vu doeil en une grande station balnéaire au point de vouloir concurrencer celles du Sud de la Thaïlande. Des chantiers, des chantiers, encore des chantiers. On abat les arbres qui longent la mer afin dy constru

Farmer Tills Ground For Planting With Traditional Tool, Amaru Community Outside Urubamba; Cusco, Peru

Banana plantation trees fields destroyed damaged by storm whirlwind at Sirumugai, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

AMAZON - PERU. Reforestation. This area has been heavily logged by a timber company who, under pressure from environmentalists, have decided to plant native trees. . There is very little reforestation being done in the Amazon region.

Member of the Conservation Leadership Corps removes invasive plants in Belle Isle city park in the middle of the Detroit River, as part of a summer jobs program for high school students focussed on environmental stewardship created by Johnson Controls in cooperation with the Student Conservation Association SCA and The Greening of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, USA, North America

Cuba : The valley of traditional and organic farming. Vinales valley is still preserve ecologically and is famous for the wooded hills and traditional and organic agriculture. Cuba: La vallée de lagriculture traditionnelle et biologique. La vallée de Vinales est encore préserver écologiquement et est très connue pour les mogotes ainsi lagriculture traditionnelle et biologique.

Young woman gardener planting green cabbages carefully in the bright red soil, Koraput district, Orissa (Odisha), India, Asia

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Local fishermen use a fishnet to capture fish in the lake Local fishermen use a fishnet to capture fish in the lake ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/WosunanxPhotostoryx 22052740 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Waste on the edge of a tourist trail in Mayotte

An Amazonian villager barbeques Amazon Tambaqui over a fire in the middle of the jungle.

VIETNAM - MEKONG DELTA - THE SUSPENSION OF THE NINE DRAGONS. Portrait of the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam and many environmental issues.VIETNAM - DELTA DU MÉKONG - LE SURSIS DES NEUF DRAGONS. Portrait de la région du Delta du Mekong au Vietnam et des nombreuses problématiques environnementales.

Farmers tie logs to their Pointed Gourd (Potol or Patol in Bengali) vegetable creeper platform loft to protect them from storms. The pollen is attached manually to those pointed gourd flowers so that the flower may bear fruit even in the absence of Honeybee-like helpful insects. Tropical Cyclone 'Yaas' is about to hit with heavy rains. The Agriculture department has been asked to keep the vegetable loft tightly tied so that the storm does not cause damage. Tehatta, West Bengal, India.

LAO - LE RYTHME DES EAUXAu Nord du Laos, enclavée dans les montagnes, la paisible cité de Luang Prabang prospère depuis des siècles au sein de la péninsule formée par la confluence du fleuve Mékong et de la rivière Nam Khan. Avant dêtre devancée par Vientiane, elle fut la capitale du puissant Royaume de Lane Xang (Royaume du Million dEléphants). Son architecture coloniale et ses majestueux temples lui valent dêtre inscrite au patrimoine mondiale de lUNESCO depuis 1995.La légende raconte que Bouddha y serait venu au cours de lun de ses voyages et quil a souri. Aujourdhui, la ville est un haut lieu bouddhique de lAsie du Sud-Est. Les jeunes y viennent des campagnes alentours pour faire une retraite monastique et ainsi recevoir une éducation gratuite.A loccasion de Pi Mai, la Fête de l'Eau, Luang Prabang se réveille. Correspondant au Nouvel An lao et bouddhique, on fête le retour de la saison des pluies et la renaissance de la nature. Durant les plusieurs jours de festivités,

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee inspects Nicker Bean plant, a native invasive species on J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge. Subjects: Biological control; Coastal environments; Coastal restoration; Ecosystem recovery; Environmental quality; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat restoration; Invasive species; Islands; Vegetation; Wildlife refuges; Work of the Service; Employees (USFWS); Manageme. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: J.N. 'DING' DARLING NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

Acting Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett and other Interior officials and staff joining Take Pride in America volunteers for cleanup event, along the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers, organized by the environmental action group, Living Lands and Waters

Cuba : The valley of traditional and organic farming. Vinales valley is still preserve ecologically and is famous for the wooded hills and traditional and organic agriculture. Cuba: La vallée de lagriculture traditionnelle et biologique. La vallée de Vinales est encore préserver écologiquement et est très connue pour les mogotes ainsi lagriculture traditionnelle et biologique.

Tanzania, African people germinating tubes with soil, Tacar Project. (Large format sizes available)

Herbicide spreading in a Banana plantation in Martinique

Garden with mini-irrigation systems financed by the Balearic government, Sinchaj, San Bartolomé Jocotenango, municipality of the department of Quiché, Guatemala, Central America.

Farmers harvesting Boro paddy partially submerged in flooded land. Frequent rains in Sylhet and water flowing down from the Meghalaya hills have inundated the paddy fields in Kanaighat, Goainghat, and Jaintapur upazilas bordering Sylhet. Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Indonesia, West Java, Ujung Kulon National Park. UNESCO World Heritage Site.

spraying mango bush mango indica without any protection karnataka, southern india

A man stands on a felled tree and saws off branches, under cloudy sky, blocked Yungas road and demonstration in the rainforest of Bolivia

Transport fan for threshing rice Yunnan

Mexico, Michoacan, Sierra Chincua Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary (aka Reserva de la Biosfera Mariposa Monarca). Sanctuary trail (Editorial Usage Only)

SapaWomen planting rice

Pentecost Land diver stops just short of hitting the ground; Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

Locals help screen dirt at Ulingan, Bogia District, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea on Sep. 30, 2022. The investigation team visited multiple areas across the coastal Madang Province in hopes of recovering missing U.S. service members lost during World War II. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and the nation.

produccion de Paulonia para biomasa, Campos, Mallorca, balearic islands, spain, europe.

Ngongo (Megaphrynium macrostachyum) leaves used by Baka woman to make a Mongolu, a hut made from sticks and leaves, Cameroon

Old man grass cuttings for livestock feed, Riviere Froide, Ouest Department, Haiti, Central America

Rural youth using weeding implement in paddy field socio-economic initiative by NGO Chinmaya Organization of Rural Development Copyright: xRajeshxVora/DinodiaxPhotox

Indonesia, Sumatra, Gunung Leuser National Park, UNESCO World Heritage site, and Biosphere Reserve. (MR)

Sustainability, walking and man on farm path with natural off grid lifestyle for carbon footprint from back. Resources, permaculture and farmer with biodiversity, eco friendly agriculture and nature

Planting salad, several women planting seedlings, field work, Dalat, Central Highlands, Vietnam, Asia

Embara Indian man with collected plants used for medical purposes, Chagres River, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

LAO - LE RYTHME DES EAUXAu Nord du Laos, enclavée dans les montagnes, la paisible cité de Luang Prabang prospère depuis des siècles au sein de la péninsule formée par la confluence du fleuve Mékong et de la rivière Nam Khan. Avant dêtre devancée par Vientiane, elle fut la capitale du puissant Royaume de Lane Xang (Royaume du Million dEléphants). Son architecture coloniale et ses majestueux temples lui valent dêtre inscrite au patrimoine mondiale de lUNESCO depuis 1995.La légende raconte que Bouddha y serait venu au cours de lun de ses voyages et quil a souri. Aujourdhui, la ville est un haut lieu bouddhique de lAsie du Sud-Est. Les jeunes y viennent des campagnes alentours pour faire une retraite monastique et ainsi recevoir une éducation gratuite.A loccasion de Pi Mai, la Fête de l'Eau, Luang Prabang se réveille. Correspondant au Nouvel An lao et bouddhique, on fête le retour de la saison des pluies et la renaissance de la nature. Durant les plusieurs jours de festivités,

planting of corn on the slopes of Tolimán volcano 'Santiago Atitlan, lake Atitlán', Guatemala, Central America.

Severe Storm Tornado - Pottawatomie County, Okla. , May 13, 2010 Two members of a Caddo Electric Cooperative line crew assist in the stringing of power lines through heavy brush in rough terrain, restoring service to a neighborhood left without power by a tornado trhat struck the area on May 10. Electrical service was interrupted in many areas affected by 22 confirmed tornadoes that swept the eastern half of the state. FEMA . Oklahoma Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Straight-Line Winds. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Community works together to remove a fallen tree from the road, blocked Yungas Strait and demonstration in the rainforest of Bolivia

Tapping a rubber tree

Farmer standing beside compost heap, Rwanda

Sherpur, Bangladesh - 08 November 2025: Aerial view of verdant fields where figures in vibrant attire work, their presence contrasting with the forest edge.

KHM - ENV - TONLE SAPPortrait of the Tonle Sap region, the largest lake in Southeast Asia with a unique natural phenomenon, which is now threatened.KHM - ENV - TONLE SAPPortrait de la région du Tonle Sap, le plus grand lac d'Asie du Sud-Est avec un phénomène naturel unique, qui est aujourd'hui menacé.

Wire trap used by Bantou people makes finding food for Baka people harder, Cameroon

LAO - ENVIRONNEMENT - 4000 ISLANDPortrait of the 4000 Islands territory (Si Phan Don) in the extreme south of Laos where the famous Don Sahong Dam is being built.LAO - ENVIRONNEMENT - 4000 ÎLESPortrait du territoire des 4000 îles ( Si Phan Don ) à l'extrème sud du Laos où est en construction le fameux barrage de Don Sahong.

Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Pohnpei Island, of the Federated States of Micronesia

Hothouses of a university in Hveragerdi in winter. They are heated by geothermal energy and are used to do research on the growth of plants under Icelandic conditions. Bananas and other tropical plants. Europe, Iceland

An Oro Win man extracts latex from a tree to be used in creation of a drum, Southwest Amazon, Brazil.

Brazil, agrarian reform Areia, banana plantation, banana plant

Men's hands showing a leaf perforated by a beetle in the Amazon rainforest, Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil, South America

Korai grass is cut and bound, Kadambankurichi, near Karur, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia

Garden with mini-irrigation systems financed by the Balearic government Garden with mini-irrigation systems financed by the Balearic government, Sinchaj, San Bartolomé Jocotenango, municipality of the department of Quiché, Guatemala, Central America Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 22072654

Drying beans Drying beans, La Tana, Reyna area, Uspantan department, Guatemala, Central America Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 22071510

221001-N-OT701-1030 JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (Oct. 1, 2022) Members of the local community remove invasive plant species at the Loko Pa'aiau Fishpond. Sailors partnered with local community members to help restore the Loko Pa'aiau fishpond by removing invasive plant species and repairing the wall to the fishpond.

Woman harvesting red algae (Rhodophyta) plantation, Seaweed centre, Women's Cooperative, seaweed cultivation and soap production, Paje, East Coast Unguja, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa

REFORESTATION, INDIA. Andhra Pradesh, Chittoor District, Rishi Valley. Students at Rishi Valley school watering tree nursery. The school has reforested this valley. .

Planting salad, two women planting seedlings, field work, Dalat, Central Highlands, Vietnam, Asia

Road flooded and damaged by mudslides in western province, Rwanda

Spraying Insecticide On Paddy Fields, Bangladesh

LAO - ENVIRONNEMENT - 4000 ISLANDPortrait of the 4000 Islands territory (Si Phan Don) in the extreme south of Laos where the famous Don Sahong Dam is being built.LAO - ENVIRONNEMENT - 4000 ÎLESPortrait du territoire des 4000 îles ( Si Phan Don ) à l'extrème sud du Laos où est en construction le fameux barrage de Don Sahong.

Logger Cuts into Rainforest Tree

Airmen with the Airman Leadership School tie trash bags at Tanguisson Beach, Dededo on Sept. 24, 2022. ALS at Andersen AFB has incorporated a new squadron mentorship program allowing squadrons to guide the future Staff Sergeants throughout their five week course. The squadron mentors accompanied the students during their community service project to participate and build comradery.

Myanmar (Burma), Mandalay State, Ava, Ma Te Tin, Marmaraye and San San Win planting rice shoots

hydroelectric power project Madre Selva, Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Quiche, Republic of Guatemala, Central America.

North Andaman Tsunami Relief worker plants a mangorove seedling near the Thai village of Ban Talae Nok on the North Andaman Sea - THAILAND

Photojournalistic image of the life in East Timor.

Debarking a tree before cutting into boards Ecuador

LAO - ENVIRONNEMENT - 4000 ISLANDPortrait of the 4000 Islands territory (Si Phan Don) in the extreme south of Laos where the famous Don Sahong Dam is being built.LAO - ENVIRONNEMENT - 4000 ÎLESPortrait du territoire des 4000 îles ( Si Phan Don ) à l'extrème sud du Laos où est en construction le fameux barrage de Don Sahong.

Land grabbing, major landowners have fenced off the land that once constituted the habitat of the Wichi Indians tribe, the cacique, community leader, of the indigenous community of El Escrito looking over the fence, Gran Chaco, Salta, Argentina, South America

Medicinal plant. Baka pygmy showing the bark of the Efue tree, they drink it as an infusion as a remedy for malaria. Small indigenous communities that cling to their past and continue to live in the equatorial forest of southeastern Cameroon (they are also found in the Congo, Central African Republic and Gabon). Most of their subsistence lies in hunting, fishing and gathering. Despite being semi-nomadic, the community where the images were taken, made up of 5 families (about 40 people), is settled in the Dja Reserve: commune of Somalomo, Biosphere Reserve since 1982 and World Heritage Site since 1987.

Leah Eggeman, F4 Tech Contractor, measures out a plot area at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, Jan. 11, 2024. Plot areas are used while planting trees to ensure correct spacing, allowing for seedling survival checks after planting is complete.

Protection against feeding damage on banana plants, Daintree National Park, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

Cuba, Guantanamo, Baracoa

Man walking along irrigation canals (Falaj) to supply the palm grove downstream from village of Misfat (Misfah) Al Abriyeen in Jebel Akhdar, Oman

Democratic Republic of Congo, Khauzi-Biega National Park

The BaGanda and other Bantu speaking peoples of Uganda still make cloth from the bark of certain trees using traditional methods. These days the cloth is principally used as shrouds.

Mount Mayon, the man facing a giant of nature. Mount Mayon , the most active volcano in the Philippines and its people living in its vicinity who undergo forced evacuations as well as the constraints of a risk area. Lava flows of rivers dug dangerous because landslides are common. Despite this, men are often forced to go there to get the earth and stones to build or rebuild their homes. Mont Mayon, l'homme face à un géant de la nature. Le Mont Mayon, volcan le plus actif des Philippines, et ses habitants vivant dans ses alentours qui subissent des évacuations forcées, ainsi que les contraintes dune zone à risque. Les coulées de lave ont creusé de dangereuses rivières car les éboulements y sont fréquents. Malgré ça, les hommes sont contraints de sy rendre souvent afin de se procurer de la terre et des pierres pour construire ou reconstruire leur habitation.

Logger Cuts into Huge Rainforest Tree

050119-N-2653P-525. State: Sumatra Country: Indonesia (IDN) Scene Major Command Shown: Tsunami disaster site

A worker harvests oil palm fruit in Malaysia. Oil palms are grown commercially to produce palm oil, which is used around the world as cooking oil and as an ingredient in many processed foods. Palm oil is also used as a biofuel, which has recently caused an increase in demand. However, there are social and environmental issues surrounding oil palm production, since the plantations often compete with native agriculture or rainforest, and palm oil grown for fuel takes up acreage that might otherwis

Illegal logging in Asia

A father and child unload a low-cost low-altitude bundle of humanitarian supplies during Operation Christmas Drop, Dec. 10, 2018, on Fais Island, Federated States of Micronesia. Although Fais has a small airstrip, the islanders rarely get visitors, mail, or supplies and look towards OCD each year for the resupply of clothing, fishing, educational and medical supplies.

Pacific Partnership 2010 volunteers join Indonesians to replace hundreds of mangrove trees along the coast of Ambon Island in the Banda Sea, Eastern Indonesia, on July 29, 2010. The USNS MERCY/PP10 is participating with ships from Indonesia, Australia and Singapore in the local SAIL BANDA activities, dedicated to improving the future of small islands and promoting awareness of the importance of preserving and caring for coral reefs and wetlands.

Farmer with seedlings, Acampamento 12 de Otubro landless camp, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra, a Brazilian landless movement, MST, Munizip Claudia, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America

linie der steinbollards auf der straße über einem grünen tal line of stone bollards on the road over a green valley LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/MilanxVasicekx 12771715

Self-sufficient labor-intensive farming in Oman Self-sufficient labor-intensive farming in Oman. Traditional sustainable agriculture. Copyright: xZoonar.com/monticellox 21862223

Irrigation system in the home garden. Well with manual and automatic pump. Irrigation system in the home garden. Well with manual and automatic pump Copyright: xZoonar.com/LeonidxEremeychukx 12819612

Palm oil plantation, environmental destruction through monoculture, Costa Rica, Central America

VIETNAM - MEKONG DELTA - THE SUSPENSION OF THE NINE DRAGONS. Portrait of the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam and many environmental issues.VIETNAM - DELTA DU MÉKONG - LE SURSIS DES NEUF DRAGONS. Portrait de la région du Delta du Mekong au Vietnam et des nombreuses problématiques environnementales.

South America, Brazil, Amazon. Local man uses knife to scar the bark of a rubber tree to allow the white sappy latex to be gathered. (Editorial Usage Only)

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - Administrator Jackson listening to environmental scientists at LSU. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

AGRICULTURE, NIGERIA. Harvesting crops grown on deforested land by slash and burn agriculturalists. .

Dry branches of tree are stocked for used as fuel in rural area

The Argentine Alejandro Trevisan is a traveler who has dedicated his life to the plants,he is teaching to the students of the local school the systems to manage a garden in natural way

050227-F-9891G-084. Base: Luisiana State: Laguna Country: Philippines (PHL)

Development of floriculture industry at Dalat, Lam Dong, Vietnam, with many greenhouse and high power consumption can make increase CO2, green house effect and climate change

Planting salad, two women planting seedlings, field work, Dalat, Central Highlands, Vietnam, Asia

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