Cattle wander past the abandoned, half-built, mansion of former president Blaise Compaore, on the road between Kaya and Ouagadougou.

A boy stands on a hillside in Assomada, a town in Santa Catarina, an impoverished farming county an hour's drive through jagged mountains from Praia. Once, the region's main income was from beans, cor...

Houses in the remote mountains in Santa Catarina, an impoverished farming county an hour's drive through jagged mountains from Praia. Once, the region's main income was from beans, corn and livestock....

A scarecrow on a hillside in Santa Catarina, an impoverished farming county an hour's drive through jagged mountains from Praia. Once, the region's main income was from beans, corn and livestock. Toda...

Cows feeding in a cattle shed at a wheat research institute.

Cows feeding in a cattle shed at a wheat research institute.

Mr Ashutosh, a member of staff at a wheat research institute, hugs one of the facility's cows in a cattle shed.

Mr Ashutosh, a member of staff at a wheat research institute, hugs one of the facility's cows in a cattle shed.

Mr Ashutosh, a member of staff at a wheat research institute, hugs one of the facility's cows in a cattle shed.

People prepare to buy and slaughter sheep outside a restaurant at a tourist stop.

Pupils move cattle from their summer field to their winter field at Hallingdal, a 'Folk High School (Folkehogskole)', located three hours from Oslo, between Oslo and Bergen.

Pupils move cattle from their summer field to their winter field at Hallingdal, a 'Folk High School (Folkehogskole)', located three hours from Oslo, between Oslo and Bergen.

Pupils move cattle from their summer field to their winter field at Hallingdal, a 'Folk High School (Folkehogskole)', located three hours from Oslo, between Oslo and Bergen.

Pupils move cattle from their summer field to their winter field at Hallingdal, a 'Folk High School (Folkehogskole)', located three hours from Oslo, between Oslo and Bergen.

People prepare to buy and slaughter sheep outside a restaurant at a tourist stop.

People prepare to buy and slaughter sheep outside a restaurant at a tourist stop.

People prepare to buy and slaughter sheep outside a restaurant at a tourist stop.

People prepare to buy and slaughter sheep outside a restaurant at a tourist stop.

Sheeps grazing in a field outside the town.

Madame Wane Fatou Binetou Diop and her brother Moustapha Diop show Mapate Junior, a two and a half year old Ladoum ram that is 112cm at the withers and 140cm in length. Ladoum sheep are a cross betwe...

Diallo the Younger, a 23 months old Ladoum ram, measuring 112 cm at the withers. It belongs to Ousseynou Thiaroye Fall (29) who runs the Hann Thiaroye flock. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritan...

Habibou Diop shows Bideo Bou Bess, a 19 month old Ladoum ram from the Malle flock which is 112cm in height and 172cm in length. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-ba...

Assane Dieye, manager of the Menenek flock, shows Ladoum ram Ballon d'Or. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-bali. They're renowned for their size and appreciated fo...

Assane Dieye, manager of the Menenek flock, shows Ladoum ram Ballon d'Or. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-bali. They're renowned for their size and appreciated fo...

Madame Wane Fatou Binetou Diop and her brother Moustapha Diop show Mapate Junior, a two and a half year old Ladoum ram that is 112cm at the withers and 140cm in length. Ladoum sheep are a cross betwe...

Souleymane Savane shows Aristote Junior, a 42 month old Ladoum ram from the Mame Paya Ndiaye flock that is 114cm at the withers. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-b...

Madame Sow Fatoumata Ka with Amath a two year old Ladoum ram that is 95cm at the withers and 183cm long. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-bali. They're renowned fo...

Sherif a 28 month old Ladoum ram from the Keur Mame Seydi flock which is 115cm at the withers and 158cm long. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-bali. They're renown...

Habibou Diop shows Bideo Bou Bess, a 19 month old Ladoum ram from the Malle flock which is 112cm in height and 172cm in length. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-ba...

NDakarou, a three year old Ladoum ram from the Haram Sagna flock that was breed by Pape Diop. He is the son of Minke, who at 120 cm was the tallest Ladoum in Senegal. Ladoum sheep are a cross between...

Diallo the Younger, a 23 months old Ladoum ram, measuring 112 cm at the withers. It belongs to Ousseynou Thiaroye Fall (29) who runs the Hann Thiaroye flock. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritan...

White Gold, a three year old Ladoum sheep from the Keur Mame Seydi flock which is 106cm at the withers and 150cm in length. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-bali....

Fatoumata Doumbia and Ousseynou Koor shows Yaram Gueye, a 32 month old Ladoum sheep from the Na-Fanta Diane flock. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-bali. They're...

Sherif, a 28 month old Ladoum ram, measuring 115 at the withers. It belongs to Seydi Gadiaga who runs the Keur Mame Seydi flock. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-b...

Passeport, a 28 month old Ladoum ram, measuring 154 cm at the withers. It belongs to Thylla Warkhoukh who runs the Samba MBaye flock. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian b...

Joseph Ki-Zerbo, an 18 month old Ladoum ram owned by Mohamed Seck who, with Djibril Dere, also bred the ram. It is from the Vizuri flock and is 114cm at the withers. Ladoum sheep are a cross betwee...

Boy Ndour, a Ladoum ram from the Cheikh Diouf flock that is owned and bred by Syaka Sane. It is 115cm at the withers. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-bali. They'r...

Diallo the Younger, a 23 months old Ladoum ram, measuring 112 cm at the withers. It belongs to Ousseynou Thiaroye Fall (29) who runs the Hann Thiaroye flock. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritan...

Fatoumata Doumbia shows Le Ladoum Mass, a Ladoum ram from the Na-Fanta Diane flock. It is 30 months old and 110cm at the withers. Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-...

NDakarou, a three year old Ladoum ram from the Haram Sagna flock that was breed by Pape Diop. He is the son of Minke, who at 120 cm was the tallest Ladoum in Senegal. Ladoum sheep are a cross between...

Yuri Yunevich's farm and house was badly destroyed, when a Russian Iskander missile landed nearby in the first week of the war in Ukraine.

A cow herder reading a Bible in the Carpathian Mountains north of Slavsko. During Stalin's rule possession of a Bible was punishable by deportation to the gulags. Until the approach of independence th...

A dead cow lies on dry ground inside the Mocuzari dam. According to recent federal data, nearly 85% of Mexico has been suffering from a historical drought that has lasted for over two decades, leaving...

Taliban militia wait while two families in conflict over the use of their land speak to a Taliban official. One party wants to raise livestock and the other wants to plant wheat. The conflict has been...

A shepherd with a flock of sheep.

In Talah, 120 km from Kandahar, two families in conflict over the use of their land, one party wants to raise livestock and the other wants to plant wheat, this conflict has been going on for years, t...

A man herding a flock of sheep along a road.

Sheep and goats herded near a village 60 kms outside Kandahar.

Sheep and goats herded through a village 60 kms outside Kandahar.

People led pack donkeys along a snow covered track.

In Talah, 120 km from Kandahar, two families in conflict over the use of their land, one party wants to raise livestock and the other wants to plant wheat, this conflict has been going on for years, t...

In Talah, 120 km from Kandahar, two families in conflict over the use of their land, one party wants to raise livestock and the other wants to plant wheat, this conflict has been going on for years, t...

A shepherd with a flock of sheep on the A1 road between Ghazni and Kandahar.

In Talah, 120 km from Kandahar, two families in conflict over the use of their land, one party wants to raise livestock and the other wants to plant wheat, this conflict has been going on for years, t...

People gather at a livestock market.

People gather at a livestock market.

A dead cow belonging to Abdilla Farah, one of the 40 cattle, from his herd of 100, that has died during an ongoing drought.

Abdilla Farah sits next to one of his dead animals, one of the 40 cattle, from his herd of 100, that has died during an ongoing drought.

A caravan of camels walking across the desert horizon.

The homestead of Abdulahi Farah Isse (27) during a drought that has, in the last five months, led to the deaths of around 40 of the pastoralist's herd of 100 cattle. He says that "There have been...

Sheep grazing on dried pasture where one of the few plants to survive the region's ongoing drought is the Prosopis juliflora which the animals cannot eat due to its thorns.

Sheep grazing on dried pasture where one of the few plants to survive the region's ongoing drought is the Prosopis juliflora which the animals cannot eat due to its thorns.

Sheep and goats graze on a farm that still has water because of the use of a borehole and is offering its land to nearby pastoralists suffering from the region's ongoing drought. However, their animal...

Sheep and goats graze on a farm that still has water because of the use of a borehole and is offering its land to nearby pastoralists suffering from the region's ongoing drought. However, their animal...

Sheep and goats graze on a farm that still has water because of the use of a borehole and is offering its land to nearby pastoralists suffering from the region's ongoing drought. However, their animal...

A woman herding camels on a farm that still has water because of the use of a borehole and is offering its land to nearby pastoralists suffering from the region's ongoing drought. However, their anima...

Local volunteer, Ibado (purple) stands near a dead lamb, that died early in the day, while she talks with women outside their makeshift shelters while on her daily rounds visiting IDPs displaced by dr...

Local volunteer, Ibado (purple) holds a dead lamb, that died early in the day, while she talks with women outside their makeshift shelters while on her daily rounds visiting IDPs displaced by drought...

Residents of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in Xapuri, run cattle through the Albracia rubber plantation.

Baling up rice stalks to use as animal feed during the rice harvest in Lakminya Parsahi village.

Rukiya baling up rice stalks to use as animal feed.

Women and children baling up rice stalks to use as animal feed during the rice harvest in Lakminya Parsahi village.

Lyubov Nikolaevna Morekhodova (80) carries a bucket of water up to her farm after collecting it from Lake Baikal. She runs a small farm with cows and chickens. She has to carry water in buckets from t...

Lyubov Nikolaevna (80) carries a bucket of water up to her farm after collecting it from Lake Baikal. She runs a small farm with cows and chickens. She has to carry water in buckets from the lake up h...

Cattle on a homestead in the village Peschanka on Olkhon Island.

Cattle on a homestead in the village Peschanka on Olkhon Island.

A cow stands in the snow on Olkhon Island.

An abandoned farm in the permanently flooded region of the Pantanal of Paiaguas. This flooding occurred due to the 'breaking in' of the river Taquari, which due to silting up abandoned its original co...

Cattle walk in an area degraded by erosion on a cattle ranch within the boundaries of the Taquari Spring State Park, a protected area dedicated to the conservation of several springs of the Taquari ri...

A barn containing a flock of free range chickens.

Cattle walk in an area degraded by erosion on a cattle ranch within the boundaries of the Taquari Spring State Park, a protected area dedicated to the conservation of several springs of the Taquari ri...

A family milking cows in the San Pedro de Yunga community. In Ecuador, 7% of the population is indigenous. Their principal activities are related to agriculture and livestock.

A cow rests in grass outside of a Karanqui indigenous house in the Tarqui community.

Maria Angelita Quezada (84), a Kanari indigenous woman, feeding her chickens outside her home in the Tarqui community. She says: "I always defend the water because it is the most necessary resource fo...

Sheep outside a Karanqui indigenous house in the Tarqui community.

The son in law of ranch owner, Nadia Baronnet, adjusts the saddle of a horse before corralling the 120 head of cattle on her 180ha farm for tick disinfecting. Nadia Baronnet's, great grandfather, And...

The son in law of ranch owner, Nadia Baronnet, adjusts the saddle of a horse before corralling the 120 head of cattle on her 180ha farm for tick disinfecting. Nadia Baronnet's, great grandfather, And...

Emmanuelle Pain Durand, a cattle ranch owner and settler, prepares to disinfect 120 head of cattle on her neighbour's 180ha farm. The neighbour, Nadia Baronnet's, great grandfather, Andre Baronnet,...

Helena Yenga washing one of her pigs before heading for the local market, where she buys and sells bushmeat. She is participating in a pig raising pilot initiated by the FORETS project. The aim is to...

A dog stands next to a refrigerator, a bag and a dead chicken, likely recovered belongings of a nearby resident, while, in the background, rescue personnel from the Coast Guard wait for a truck to rec...