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  • After an absence of more than a year, Phay Ruscome couldn’t wait to get back in the classroom. The 9 nine-old Rohingya Muslim is now receiving emergency education at the Thea Chaung IDP outside Sittwe courtesy of a community intervention
  • Brachiaria trials at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture's headquarters in Colombia
  • “Pastoralism will never die here,” said a senior livestock officer in Mongolia. “It is changing, but cannot, will not die. We will not let that happen.” The agriculture ministry estimates some 43 million heads of livestock in 2013, while other est
    The agriculture ministry in Mongolia estimates some 43 million heads of livestock in 2013, while other estimates range much higher. There is no livestock identification program and herders are taxed by their heads of cattle
  • In an effort to professionalize the livestock sector in Mongolia, in 2010 the government awarded each herding family a badge recognizing their way of life as a livelihood. The sector faces challenges of increasingly erratic weather; the government is fina
    In an effort to professionalize the livestock sector in Mongolia, in 2010 the government awarded each herding family a badge recognizing their way of life as a livelihood (Sep 2013)
  • Increased deforestation, barren overgrazed pastures and extreme weather have forced the government of Mongolia to professionalize herding in an effort to strengthen the livestock sector and retain youths more drawn to mining than muttons. These brothers f
  • Zamboanga, Philippines - Black smoke from burning houses rises in the background as a military cargo plane bearing relief goods arrives in the besieged city of Zamboanga in Mindanao, where troops are locked in a battle with Muslim rebels opposed to peace
  • “Urum” is a milk fat product created from boiled milk in Mongolia. Milk foam hardens over low heat, creating a thin skin covering cream that solidifies after resting up to 24 hours
    “Urum” is a milk fat product created from boiled milk in Mongolia. Milk foam hardens over low heat, creating a thin skin covering cream that solidifies after resting up to 24 hours (Sep 2013)
  • Since the early 1960’s, milk consumption worldwide has doubled and egg consumption by five times. In a cold landscape historically barren of fruits and vegetables, dairy has a prominent place in Mongolia where there are an estimated 3,000 dairy products
    Since the early 1960’s, milk consumption worldwide has doubled and egg consumption by five times. In a cold landscape historically barren of fruits and vegetables, dairy has a prominent place in Mongolia where there are an estimated 3,000 dairy products
  • Mongolian herder. Mongolian’s preference for animal protein presages a growing worldwide trend in which livestock consumption is projected to increase by 27 percent in 2050, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
    Mongolian herder. (Sep 2013)
  • Three years ago, extreme weather events (a slow onset disaster known as a “dzud”) – coupled with lack of preparation – killed almost nine million livestock, in Mongolia, some 20 percent of the country’s stock then, littering the sparsely populat
    Mongolian camels. (Sep 2013)
  • Even with the “pastoralist dropouts” heading to cities, some 40 percent of Mongolia’s three-million population (about 150,000 households) still survive from herding. Dagva Manaljav, 38, from Kharkhorin District in Mongolia’s Övörkhangai Province
    Dagva Manaljav, herder, from Kharkhorin District in Mongolia’s Övörkhangai Province (Sep 2013)
  • A family of Mongolian herders in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Years of extreme weather that have killed millions of livestock have gradually forced Mongolian herders to the capital, which grew from 1969-1989 by 4.5 percent, and since then, four times as quic
    A family of Mongolian herders in the capital, Ulaanbaatar (Sep 2013)
  • In the Madina market in Guinea's capital, Conakry, many university graduates sell used clothes and shoes by day and load market trucks by night to get by until they find better-paying jobs
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  • Maguindanao, Philippines - Loyal followers of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) rebel leader Nur Misuari turn up during a gathering in the southern Mindanao island to coincide with a declaration they will again fight for independence.Misuari's photogr
  • Semi-nomadic Kuchis say they are getting pushed off their rangeland with land rights still not clearly established in Afghanistan
  • Small scale traders along a street in downtown of Goma, DRC
  • A busy public market in Goma, DRC
  • Laos' MMR has improved in recent years due to maternal and child health care advances, but maternal deaths are still among highest in Southeast Asia
  • Children in Laos face a higher chance of infant mortality than elsewhere in the world due to maternal, child and reproductive health care gaps
  • Afghan sheep farmer Dost Mohammad has seen his family’s land on the outskirts of Kunduz City repeatedly diminished with land rights still far from secure
  • Selling fish that has been freshly caught from Lake Kivu in Goma. Food prices have increased dramatically since rebels claimed control of Goma. The airport and road links have been shut and banks have been closed
  • Small scale traders sell their wares in a street in the outskirts of Goma, DRC
  • Dorjsuren Chimed Gochoo, 43, moved to Arvaikheer District in Övörkhangai Province, Mongolia in 2004 after losing most all his livestock in a series of extreme weather events that culminated in a “dzud” (natural disaster) of 2000 that wiped out all o
  • Years of extreme weather that have killed millions of livestock have gradually forced Mongolian herders to the capital, Ulaanbaatar, which grew from 1969-1989 by 4.5 percent, and since then, four times as quickly
    Years of extreme weather that have killed millions of livestock have gradually forced Mongolian herders to the capital, Ulaanbaatar, which grew from 1969-1989 by 4.5 percent, and since then, four times as quickly
  • Amadou Condé is cleaning fish at Port de Boulbinet in the Guinean capital Conakry. August 2013. A local NGO helped him get off the streets, train up and find work - first as a fish-cleaner. He now wants to become a carpenter
    Amadou Condé is cleaning fish at Port de Boulbinet in the Guinean capital Conakry. (August 2013)
  • An elderly Syrian refugee in the Beka'a Valley, Lebanon. Aid agencies say the elderly are among the most vulnerable refugees but are often neglected by the humanitarian community
  • Omer Hussein, a resident of Sudan’s South Kordofan state, where rebels have been fighting government forces, holds a placard urging Sudanese President Omar Beshir and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir to work towards peace
  • Renewed inter-clan clashes have been reported this morning in Butie near the northern Kenya town of Moyale (file photo)
  • Shopna Begum, 35, in Dhaka’s largest slum, Korail
  • Members of WFP's Fast Information Technology and Telecommunications Emergency and Support Team (FITTEST) are hired by the UN Country Team in Niger to install a solar-powered security lighting system. WFP has several business units that operate on a cost-r
  • Smallholder farmers bring their cattle to an abbatoir in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital

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