Tags / Agriculture

This collection highlights the deforestation of the Amazon due to cattle farming and corn farming. Various shots provide a look at the rain forest in its virgin state; workers felling trees to clear the land; a fire at night from slash and burn agriculture; a cattle ranch on cleared rain forest and a corn farm on cleared rain forest land.

Deforestation in the Amazonian Rain Forest using the slash and burn technique.

Various shots of a cattle ranch in the Amazonian Rain Forest built on cleared Amazonian Rain Forest.

A range of shots of the Brazilian Rain Forest

Various shots of a corn farm featuring wide, sweeping vistas of corn and irrigation equipment in the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais. The corn farm was built on cleared rain forest land.

Various shots of workers clearing and moving trees in the Amazonian Rain Forest using heavy equipment, bulldozers and front-loaders.

Haitian peanut farmers

Contave Webner, plantation owner, in his home in Mirebalais, Haiti.

Adher Marcelin, mayor of Mirebalais, drives to his plantation.

Irrigating the fields.

Irrigating the fields.

Farmer planting peanuts in Mirebalais, Haiti.

Peanut farmers in Mirebalais, Haiti.

Plowing a field to plant peanuts in Mirebalais, Haiti.

Peanut farmer in Mirebalais, Haiti.

Convenience store owner and son in Mirebalais, Haiti.

American peanut butter and Haitian mamba.

Uprooting peanuts.

A locally grown, organic Haitian peanut.

Adher Marcelin runs up a hill alongside a pipe that pumps water from the Artibonite River to the fields.

Government employer stands outside the Entrance of Supreme Court
JUDGMENT EX-PM YINGLUCK SHINAWATRA. Bangkok.

Government employer give paper information to the press about resolution judgment EX-PM YINGLUCK SHINAWATRA. Bangkok.

Police forming barrier for separate press before Yingluck Shinawatra go out for the Tribunal.

Police and Pres waiting Yingluck Shinawatra go out for the Tribunal.

Police and Pres waiting Yingluck Shinawatra go out for the Tribunal.
Police forming barrier for separate fanclub before Yingluck Shinawatra go out for the Tribunal.
One faceclub carry a rose in the hand.

Ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra with fanclub

Ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra with fanclub

Ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra carry a bouquet of roses in her hand.

A fanclub woman performing the three finger salute that has come to symbolize Anti Coup sentiment.

Thai lawyers commented to the press about judgment Ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra.

Thai lawyers commented to the press about judgment Ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra.

As the Land Day action is brought to an abrupt halt in Wadi Fukin, the majority of the 350 olive tree saplings remain unplanted outside a house in the village after activists were forced to escape from clouds of tear gas that was fired by Israeli soldiers.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.

A Palestinian child watches from a rooftop in Wadi Fukin as Israeli soldiers fire rounds of tear gas at fleeing activists during a tree planting event to mark Land Day. In the background stands the huge Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit which is built partly on the land of Wadi Fukin.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.

Two elderly Palestinian women attempt to make their way down the hill in Wadi Fukin to escape from the tear gas that is being fired by Israeli forces.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.

An Israeli security helicopter circles above Wadi Fukin during the olive tree planting event to commemorate Palestinian Land Day on March 30th 2015.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.

Israeli soldiers line up on a hill top in Wadi Fukin as Palestinian activists watch from a distance during an olive tree planting event to commemorate Land Day in the Palestinian village of Wadi Fukin.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine. March 30 2015.

350 olive trees were brought to Wadi Fukin to be planted on the lands threatened by settlement expansion.
Wadi Fukin, West Bank, Palestine, March 30 2105.