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For this year’s observance of International Environment Day the United Nations is focusing on the plight of forests worldwide. In Haiti, there remains less than one percent tree cover. Most deforestation is caused by the local population’s need for land to farm, wood to build with, and charcoal to cook with. The result has left immense tracks of land bare to the elements, hastened massive soil erosion and increased land slides and flash flooding.
View of a deforested hilltop near Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Headline Increasing Agricultural Productivity in the Bolivian Altiplano

Caption Description In order to raise the low agricultural production of the Bolivian Altiplano - a densely populated region of valleys and ridges between the eastern and western Cordilleras - the Government has requested assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). A grass-roots agricultural improvement programme, centred around a selected group of farmers in a priority area, is being implemented, involving the dissemination of improved seeds and more suitable livestock breeds; the development of irrigation; and the establishment of producer, marketing and credit organizations.
Cordillera Real towers above 13,000 feet level of the Altiplano - a harsh environment for agriculture and stock raising. [Exact date unknown]

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Production Date 01/01/1973 11:58:32 PM

Country Bolivia

Credit UN Photo/Rothstein

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